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Zooming in on AI: Tackling deepfakes around the world

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Deepfakes (also known as digital replicas) are created when sophisticated AI technology generates or alters audio-visual content to misrepresent someone or something. Often a person's voice or appearance is digitally...more

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Florida’s CHOICE Act: Offering Unprecedented, New Tools to Employers to Prevent Unfair Competition

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As of its July 3, 2025 effective date, the Contracts Honoring Opportunity, Investment, Confidentiality, and Economic Growth (“CHOICE”) Act dramatically overhauled Florida’s restrictive covenant framework. While many states...more

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China Updates Its Anti-Unfair Competition Law to Address “Involutionary” Competition and Abuses of Superior Bargaining Power

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On June 27, 2025, China adopted a revised revision of its Anti-Unfair Competition Law (“AUCL”), which will take effect on October 15, 2025. As one of the two pillars of China’s competition law framework—alongside the...more

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More Red Tape on Colorado Noncompete and Nonsolicit Agreements

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Colorado has taken another step toward narrowing the circumstances in which restrictive covenants—such as covenants not to compete and customer nonsolicits—may be used. Senate Bill 25-083, which takes effect August 6, 2025,...more

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China Monthly Antitrust Update: July 2025

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This monthly report outlines key developments in China’s antitrust sector for July. SAMR Solicits Public Comments on the Revised Provisions on the Prohibition of Monopoly Agreements, Refining the “Safe Harbor” Standards for...more

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Will Florida’s New Non-Compete Bill Attract Tech Companies to the Sunshine State? A Thought Experiment

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Florida just enacted a game-changer of a law that makes it the friendliest state in the country for enforcing non-competes – and could also revolutionize how tech companies view the Sunshine State as a place to set up...more

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China's Sweeping 2025 Anti-Unfair Competition Law Revision: Far-Reaching Impacts on Brand Protection, Data Governance, eCommerce,...

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On June 27, 2025, China’s National People’s Congress Standing Committee enacted a landmark revision to the Anti-Unfair Competition Law (AUCL), effective October 15, 2025. This sweeping update is the most significant since the...more

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China Monthly Antitrust Update: June 2025

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This monthly report outlines key developments in China’s antitrust sector for June. The following events merit special attention: SAMR Seeks Comments on Provisions for Curbing Acts of Abusing Administrative Power to Eliminate...more

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China Monthly Data Protection Update: May 2025

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This monthly report outlines key developments in China’s data protection sector for May. The following events merit special attention...more

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I Heart FTC: Proposed New York Bill Would Continue Biden FTC’s Antitrust Vision and Policies

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After the FTC issued a replacement of the 2016 Antitrust Guidance for Human Resource Professionals on January 16, 2025, Commissioner – now Chair – Andrew N. Ferguson, joined by Commissioner Melissa Holyoak, punctuated his...more

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Ley 2439 de 2024: Modificaciones al estatuto del consumidor en Colombia

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El Congreso promulgó la Ley 2439 de 2024 "[P]or medio de la cual se modifica la Ley 1480 de 2011 y se crean medidas de protección en favor del consumidor de comercio electrónico". Entre los cambios más relevantes introducidos...more

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Canada Announces 30-Day Consultation on Measures to Address China's Trade Practices Related to Electric Vehicles

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On July 2, 2024, Canada will initiate a 30-day consultation period on potential policy responses to China’s rapid rise as the world’s largest manufacturer of electric vehicles (EVs). Canada alleges that unfair trade practices...more

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Oklahoma Legislature passes bill broadening scope of permissible non-solicitation agreements

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This week, the federal government took aim at restrictive employment agreements it deemed unfair and unlawful when the Federal Trade Commission issued its final rule banning noncompetes nationwide. Meanwhile in Oklahoma, the...more

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California Employers Face Feb. 14 Deadline and Tighter Non-Compete Prohibitions

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California has long had the most restrictive laws against employee non-compete agreements. Effective January 1, two new legislative bills, Senate Bill 699 and Assembly Bill 1076, tightened California’s restrictions even...more

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New Laws Reinforce California’s Hostility to Non-Competes with Notice Obligations and Civil Penalties

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California recently enacted two bills — SB 699 and AB 1076 — amending and adding to Section 16600 of the California Business and Professions Code to broaden the scope of California’s already expansive prohibitions on...more

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Important Changes to California Non-Compete Laws to Take Effect in January 2024

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Employers should take stock of restrictive covenant agreements that their current and former workforce have signed and which remain in effect. California recently passed two laws amending Section 16600 of the California...more

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New California Non-Compete Laws Add Teeth to State’s Non-Competition Prohibition

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2023 has seen its fair share of headlines with respect to developments in non-competition law: in January, the Federal Trade Commission proposed a rule that would ban most non-competes; in May, the National Labor Relations...more

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP

California Enacts Additional Restrictions on Employer Noncompete Agreements

The California Legislature has sought in recent years to expand the rights of employees in nearly every facet of business in California. Employer restrictions on an employee’s ability to work in the same industry after...more

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New California Law Makes Non-Compete Agreements Unlawful, Not Just Void

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California’s Governor signed Assembly Bill (AB) 1076 on October 13, 2023, which adds new Business & Professions Code §16600.1, making it unlawful to impose non-compete clauses on employees – which contractual restrictions...more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Non-Compete Roundup: Outright Non-Compete Bans Pass; More Pending

As momentum for regulation of non-competes grows at the federal level, states continue to pass restrictive non-compete legislation on their own. As previously reported, on January 5, 2023 the Federal Trade Commission...more

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States Continue Trend of Banning Employee Non-Competes

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Coming on the heels of the Federal Trade Commission’s proposed rule banning employee non-competes and one week before the National Labor Relations Board’s General Counsel published a memo taking the position that...more

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New Federal Law Aims to Identify and Prevent or Mitigate Organizational Conflicts of Interest in Federal Contracting

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In the midst of the year-end legislative push, Congress last week passed S. 3905, the "Preventing Organizational Conflicts of Interest in Federal Acquisition Act." This "good government" law requires the Federal Acquisition...more

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Antimonopoly compliance in Russia

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On 1 March 2020, the Russian President signed the bill setting forth the legal framework for the internal systems of antimonopoly compliance (the "Compliance Amendments"). The Compliance Amendments will come into force on 12...more

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Not Even Bots Are Safe From California Law Makers

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In October 2018, California passed the Bolstering Online Transparency Act (BOT Act), which prohibits online bots from hiding their identities in order to appear as a human user. The human-like persona is used to deceive...more

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California’s BOT Disclosure Law, SB 1001, Now In Effect

The B.O.T. (“Bolstering Online Transparency”) Act, enacted last year pursuant to SB 1001, has gone into effect in California. As of July 1, it is unlawful for a person or entity to use a bot to communicate or interact online...more

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