The case of Case T-172/21 | Valve Corporation v Commission arose in the context of geo-blocking. The European Commission received information about geo-blocking of certain PC video games on the Steam platform users’ geographical location and so investigated. It concluded that Valve and five games publishers, (Bandai, Capcom, Focus Home, Koch Media and ZeniMax), infringed…
UK law Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (Security Requirements for Relevant Connectable Products) Regulations 2023 made The Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (Security Requirements for Relevant Connectable Products) Regulations 2023 SI 2023/1007 have been made. They were made under the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 and the Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act 2022. They introduce…
The House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee has issued its report on the draft Media Bill, following an inquiry. It highlights that it is twenty years since the last significant piece of media legislation was passed, which was before streaming services and widespread internet access and TV was almost entirely analogue and…
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In Case 5-115/22 | NADA e.a, an Austrian professional middle-distance runner has been found guilty of breaching Austrian anti-doping rules. The Austrian Anti-Doping Legal Committee (Österreichische Anti-Doping Rechtskommission, ÖADR) declared as invalid all results that the athlete had obtained during the period at issue, revoked any entry fees and/or prize money and banned her from…
UK CMA publishes proposed principles to guide competitive AI markets and protect consumers The Competition and Markets Authority have published a report setting out their proposed principles underpinning how they will scrutinise the competition law and consumer protection aspects of developing AI markets. It follows a review of foundation model AIs undertaken this year. The…
The Online Safety Bill completed its long passage through Parliament on 19 September, though Royal Assent is still awaited. The debate to consider the final amendments was in the Lords and can be read on Hansard. Of note was the addition of Clauses 116 to 118, which relate to the disclosure of information by Ofcom,…
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UK law Social media platforms required to tackle animal cruelty under amendments to Online Safety Bill The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs have tabled an amendment to the Online Safety Bill. The amendment states that social media platforms will be required to remove content encouraging…
The European Commission has designated six gatekeepers: Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta and Microsoft under the Digital Markets Act. In total, 22 core platform services provided by gatekeepers have been designated. The six gatekeepers will now have six months to ensure full compliance with the DMA obligations for each of their designated core platform services….
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UK law House of Lords completes third reading of Online Safety Bill The House of Lords has completed the examination of the Online Safety Bill during its third reading on 6 September 2023. The UK government put forward various amendments before third reading on subjects which included parliamentary scrutiny, remote participants in Ofcom and age…
The Science, Innovation and Technology Committee has issued a report on the governance of AI. It says that the recent rate of development has made debates regarding the governance and regulation of AI less theoretical, more significant, and more complex. It has also generated intense interest in how public policy can and should respond to…
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