Advocate General Szpunar has issued a preliminary opinion in proceedings where the French courts referred the question of whether Airbnb Ireland was a real estate agent and therefore subject to more restrictive French laws….
Read More… from Airbnb portal is an information society service: AG Opinion in Case C-390/18
The High Court has ruled in favour of the Advertising Standards Authority in a judicial review claim brought by Cityfibre….
Read More… from High Court rejects judicial review against the ASA over broadband advertising
The new directive aims to make licensing of copyright-protected material contained in such programmes easier so that they can be made available throughout the EU….
The Home Office and Department of Media, Culture and Sport have jointly published an Online Harms White Paper…
In the first of a regular column explaining the terminology behind the tech, the SCL’s resident geek, Simon Forrester, looks at asymmetric keypairs and hashing and how they underpin cryptocurrencies….
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Christian Fahey looks to the stars and introduces the concept of Space 2.0, looking at the technological and regulatory changes the satellite communications industry is undergoing and how those changes could support and foster new technologies to underpin the UK’s role in that revolution….
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The Advocate General has issued an opinion in Case C-172/18 AMS Neve Ltd and others v Heritage Audio SL and another….
A round-up of other techlaw news from the past week not covered separately on the site (w/b 29/04/2019)…
The European Parliament has agreed the draft Copyright Directive in plenary session….
Read More… from Controversial Copyright Directive agreed by European Parliament
Lawrence Akka QC reviews a recent judgment in the Singapore courts that examined algorithms, contract liability and the law of mistake…