ICO calls for views on a proposed AI and data protection risk mitigation and management toolkit
Toolkit designed to identify and mitigate data protection risks of using AI…
Miscellaneous
Copyright is for losers
Phoebe Whitlock reports on the case that resulted in the cancellation of a Banksy trademark because of a desire to remain anonymous….
CJEU confirms that framing embedded content on a website may require authorisation of the copyright holder
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’….
European Data Protection Board discusses UK adequacy and issues opinion on a potential Data Governance Act
Discussions were among other topics considered at the 46th Plenary session….
High Court orders ISPs to block streamrippers and cyberlockers
This was the first time blocking orders had been sought for this type of website….
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CMA to investigate whether Apple’s App Store is anti-competitive
Investigation follows complaints from developers that Apple’s terms are unfair and could breach competition law…
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New moves to reinforce employment rights on digital job platforms
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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Law Commission consults on reforms to laws around intimate image abuse
Reforms include making deepfake pornography a criminal offence…
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Reliance Losses and Exclusion Clauses: Co-Op v IBM
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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An XML schema is a copyright literary work but not a database, says High Court
Intellectual Property Enterprise Court considers IP rights in XML formats…
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