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8 Bus. L. Rev. 1 (1987)

handle is hein.kluwer/blr0008 and id is 1 raw text is: Editor Susan Nicholas LLB Editorial Advisory Board Roy M Goode OBE LLD Crowther Professor of Credit and Commercial Law, and Director of the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary College, University of London; Solicitor L C B Gower Former Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Law, University of Southampton; Special Research Adviser to the Department of Trade; Solicitor Frances Graupner MA(Oxon) Solicitor, Baker & McKenzie E R Hardy Ivamy LLB PhD LLD Professor of Law in the University of London; Barrister Richard Mallows Solicitor, McKenna & Co January 1987 Vol 8 No I Hubert Picarda BCL MA Barrister Norman Selwyn JP LLM Dip Econ(Oxon) ACIS Labour Law Consultant Kenneth R Simmonds Professor of International Law in the University of London Keith Walmsley LLB FCIS Solicitor, Manager Legal Service, The Stock Exchange Nicholas Dee BA, Barrister, FCA Deloitte, Haskins & Sells Ex Officio Ruth Eldon BA Book Reviews Editor Peter Groves, LLB, MA, Solicitor, 4 Church End, Thurleigh, Bedford MK44 2DA Editorial Cold Feet in The Cabinet As was widely predicted (even in Private Eye!) the Government has decided that reform of the law of copyright is too hot to handle. This after thirteen years of debate, during which time the law has become more and more shambolic. Political convenience has triumphed over the interests of rights owners, despite the stress laid by the Nicholson Report on the importance of intellectual property for innovative industry. The present shambles will remain intact until the electorate has spoken and the next Government has fulfilled as many of its manifesto promises as it sees fit. Non-reform can be in very few people's interests. Freehold tenure of copyrights has been eroded since 1956 by advances in the technology of trespassing on those rights, and by legal restrictions on the actions which could be taken against squatters. At least the White Paper (Intellectual Property and Innovation, Cmnd 9712) proposed that they should be obliged to pay a fair rent. Of course there were hard choices to be made, especially on industrial designs and the tape levy. But Government's job is to take hard decisions, not duck them. One can sympathise with a Government facing a House of Commons whose members are united in their ignorance of intellectual property law, whipped up by the propaganda of the vested interests. But that cannot be allowed to cause the postponement of very necessary law reform. To all our readers may we wish every success in 1987 and hope you will continue to support us. Please let us know your views and criticisms during the year. Business Law Review January 1987 Business Law Review Contents Passing-Off Need for Business and Reputation in UK 3 US Jurisdiction The Clouds You So Much Dread 4 Contract Express Covenant or Implied Term of Confidentiality 8 Company Law Purchase Orders Under S 459 21 Point of View UK Competition Law: Case for Radical Review 24 Trading Law Part III of Fair Trading Act: Consumer Protection or Bureaucratic Red Tape? 26 City Newsletter 2 Infobank 9 Book Reviews 28 © 1987, Graham & Trotman Limited (A member of the Kluwer Academic Publishing Group) Editorial Office Graham & Trotman Limited Sterling House 66 Wilton Road London SWIV IDE Telephone 01-821 1123 Contributions and letters for publication, which should be typed, are welcomed, and should be sent to the Editor at the above address. Subscription Office Graham & Trotman Limited Sterling House 66 Wilton Road London SW1V IDE Telephone 01-821 1123 Subscription January-December 1987 £130 post inclusive, inland £145 air assisted mail Advertisement Sales Steve Willcox Advertisement Production Brenda Doore Copyright' 2007 by Kluwer Law International. All rights reserved. No claim asserted to original government works.

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