Julian Heathcote Hobbins
Senior Legal Counsel, Federation Against Software Theft
Julian Heathcote Hobbins is The Federation’s Senior Legal Counsel.
Prior to joining FAST in July 2001, Julian worked as a solicitor and gained experience in intellectual property law at the City law firm Theodore Goddard (now Addleshaw Goddard) working with Anti Copying In Design (ACID).
Julian is responsible for The Federation’s enforcement activities (including Section 107A, Inspections of re-sellers) and is active in lobbying for improvement to copyright law with The Federation Legal Advisory Group (FLAG), which consists of 28 of the leading law firms.
As a previous convenor of the Internet Enforcement Group, Julian has cyber-pirate investigative experience and continues to manage The Federation’s Operation Tracker 3, after the successful Phase 1&2.
Julian was involved in the launch of ReportIT, a unique browser based plug-in which allows the automatic reporting of pirate websites and led Operation Red where police conducted a raid, made arrests and seized evidence following allegations of code theft.
Julian also presents on legislation relating to software, e-mail and Internet law, including the preparation of in-house policies, together with issues such as risk of defamation, data protection, copyright and direct marketing issues.
Speaking at:
Software - Developing an Industry
Tuesday 20 November
9.00am - 4.30pm
Dragon Hotel, Swansea
