James Castro-Edwards looks the genesis of the Facebook group litigation now before the courts and considers whether the current trickle of such claims could become a flood….
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Toolkit designed to identify and mitigate data protection risks of using AI…
Phoebe Whitlock reports on the case that resulted in the cancellation of a Banksy trademark because of a desire to remain anonymous….
Where the copyright holder has adopted or imposed measures to restrict framing, the embedding of a work in a website page of a third party, by means of the technique of framing, constitutes an act of ‘making available that work to a new public’….
Discussions were among other topics considered at the 46th Plenary session….
This was the first time blocking orders had been sought for this type of website….
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Investigation follows complaints from developers that Apple’s terms are unfair and could breach competition law…
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Reforms include making deepfake pornography a criminal offence…
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In the wake of the Supreme Court judgment in the Uber litigation, the ILO and The European Commission are looking at ways to protect workers rights in a digitally driven gig economy….
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Lynne McCafferty QC and Richard Osborne on the lessons to be learnt from the decision in CIS General Insurance Ltd v IBM United Kingdom Ltd where the claimants were seeking reliance losses following a repudiatory breach….
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