29 Jul, 2022 Cloud the issue: Regulators explain how they might oversee service providers By Simon Treacy The UK regulators have already introduced rules for regulated firms to build their operational resilience. Now they are turning their...
28 Jul, 2022 Metaverse Series #4: IP in the Metaverse - Expanding the reach of intangible rights By Paul Joseph Tom De Coster Bolko Ehlgen Pieter Van Den Broecke Pauline Debré Yohan Liyanage Ian Karet Julia Schönbohm Atif Bhatti Laetitia Nicolazzi Max Walter Kinninger +8 more... Show less As new products and services are introduced into the rapidly expanding metaverse, we look at how IP protection and enforcement strategies...
28 Jul, 2022 Impasse at the border - reports that EU closes off digital policy coordination with the UK government over Northern Ireland Protocol disagreements By Harry Sorenson-Vaz In a potential blow to international cooperation on the regulation of digital markets, it has been reported that the European Commission...
25 Jul, 2022 The UK's "pro-innovation" vision for regulating AI By Jennifer Calver Simon Treacy In a recent policy paper, the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has put forward a “pro-innovation” vision for the future...
25 Jul, 2022 China Data Export Security Assessment: A flow chart of the application process By Alex Roberts Tiantian Ke As noted in our previous post, the final form of the Data Export Security Assessment Measures (Measures) were released by the Cyberspace...
21 Jul, 2022 Metaverse series #3: Looking at metaverse(s) with antitrust (3D) glasses By Violette Grac-Aubert As we identified in our Tech Legal Outlook 2022, and further explored in our Mid-Year Update, the metaverse is the word on everyone’s...
15 Jul, 2022 China to finalise a key missing piece in its data protection puzzle By Alex Roberts Tiantian Ke For people who care about data protection laws in China, this summer has been way too exciting and even a bit fatiguing. What’s more, the...
14 Jul, 2022 More tech mergers set for EU review after court endorses Commission’s almost unlimited jurisdiction By Verity Egerton-Doyle Annamaria Mangiaracina On Wednesday, the General Court of the European Union handed down an important decision that endorses the European Commission’s...
14 Jul, 2022 Metaverse series #2: Working in the metaverse – emerging employment issues By Laurie Ollivent Sinead Casey Hybrid and remote working have undoubtedly accelerated the use of virtual working for many workforces and whilst the metaverse might...
12 Jul, 2022 GAFA bingo: Amazon gets a late invite to the CMA enforcement party By Verity Egerton-Doyle Zoe Cameron The CMA announced last Wednesday that it has launched an investigation into potential anticompetitive practices by Amazon affecting...
12 Jul, 2022 Online harms - the EU Parliament adopts landmark legislation By Ceyhun Pehlivan Peter Church On 5 July 2022 the European Parliament adopted the EU’s proposed Digital Services Act. While it must still be formally adopted by the...
11 Jul, 2022 …Ready for it? UK's Ofcom tells firms to start preparing now for the Online Safety Bill By Rebecca Dickie On 6 July 2022, Ofcom published their roadmap to regulating under the Online Safety Bill and an accompanying call for evidence. Here are...
08 Jul, 2022 China’s data export assessment rules released By Alex Roberts Tiantian Ke China’s cyber regulator – the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) – yesterday released the final form of the Measures for the...
06 Jul, 2022 UK seeks greater AI investment with changes to IP law By Kathy Berry On 28 June, the UK Government announced a proposed change to IP law intended to drive innovation and investment in AI. The change...
04 Jul, 2022 Metaverse series #1: Why should we care about the metaverse? Because it is the next iteration of the internet... By Jennifer Calver Julian Cunningham-Day The "metaverse" is one of the hottest buzzwords in tech and is essentially the vision of a massive, interconnected network of virtual...
04 Jul, 2022 The outlook for online harms regulation By Ben Packer For several years, societies have debated how to regulate the online platforms that host huge volumes of content created by their users....