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Hi, here is your weekly round-up of Out-Law News highlights from international law firm Pinsent Masons.  As always, there are plenty  of other stories from this week.  You can also access our archive of weekly emails.   This week's highlights from Out-Law News TMT & Sourcing and Intellectual Property ‘Always on' culture is 'staggeringly expensive' for IT buyers to guarantee, says expert  It is almost impossible for businesses to put systems and mechanisms in place to prevent IT outages, despite society demanding near-instantaneous and constant access to services, a panel of experts has agreed.  27/06/2013  EU banks face less threat of infringing software patents than those in US, says expert EU banks are less likely to infringe software patents than their counterparts in the US but should still evaluate whether to undertake a freedom to operate (FTO) analysis before launching new products or services to the market, an expert has said. 27/06/2013 Contract and supplier management key to saving businesses from IT disasters, says expert OPINION: Major banks have recently suffered some very public IT failures. Some of those failures may be due to suppliers but ultimately responsibility lies with the banks themselves. 26/06/2013 Most organisations now transferring sensitive or confidential data to the cloud The majority of businesses are now transferring sensitive or confidential data to the cloud, according to a new study. 26/06/2013   New data breach rules for EU telecoms companies can be viewed as test of data protection proposals, says expert Internet service providers (ISPs) and telecoms companies will generally have to make regulators aware of all personal data breaches they experience within 24 hours of becoming aware of the breach, under new EU rules. 25/06/2013   New copyright laws give researchers right to conduct 'electronic analysis' of copied content Researchers that wish to conduct "electronic analysis" of copyrighted content for non-commercial purposes will have a right to copy that information under proposed new copyright laws. 25/06/2013     Life Sciences Government pledges additional funding for Biomedical Catalyst programme A scheme that helps biomedical scientists to overcome a funding gap to enable them to develop their research sufficiently to attract commercial interest is to receive additional funding from the Government. 27/06/2013   Tax Expert: HMRC guide on VAT treatment of services could trigger rethink of wealth portfolio manager business models Wealth portfolio managers may have to change the way they charge for their services if they want to ensure that those services do not incur a liability for VAT, an expert has said. 27/06/2013   Employment China introduces more control over use of temporary workers FOCUS: From 1 July 2013 it will be more difficult to operate a labour dispatch enterprise, offering temporary workers to employers, in China following a change in Chinese labour law.  27/06/2013   Infrastructure There is 'no certainty that projects will be delivered' following Chancellor's infrastructure spending announcements, expert says The Chancellor's Spending Round commitment to increase infrastructure spending contains "no certainty that these projects will be delivered", an expert has said. 26/06/2013   Restructuring More law firms will face regulatory intervention as banks prove less keen to lend, says expert More law firms will fall into financial difficulties and face intervention from the legal industry regulator this year as high-profile failures discourage banks from making unsecured loans, an expert has said. 26/06/2013   Pensions HMRC accused of "shameful and aggressive" behaviour over Singapore pension scheme delisting A High Court judge has accused HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) of "shameful and aggressive" behaviour following the removal of a Singapore-based pension scheme from its list of tax-advantaged qualifying recognised overseas pension schemes (QROPS). 25/06/2013   About this email This is a weekly email for subscribers of Out-Law.com, a website with more than 10,000 pages of legal news and guidance. If and when you need further advice, we hope you'll choose Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind Out-Law.com .   Please forward this email to your friends. If someone forwarded this email to you and you'd like your own subscription, register here. Copyright © 2013 Pinsent Masons LLP, All rights reserved.  You are receiving this email because you are a contact of Out-Law.com or Pinsent Masons LLP and your details are held in their clients and contacts database  Our mailing address is:  Pinsent Masons LLP 30 Crown Place London, UK EC2A 4ES United Kingdom