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Ropes & Gray LLP

Meet the In-Laws: the UK’s Digital Legislative Agenda for 2025

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After its election to power in July 2024, the newly formed Labour government wasted little time in announcing its legislative priorities for the coming year. Unsurprisingly, these priorities included several proposed Bills...more

Cooley LLP

UK Online Safety Act: Codes of Practice and Risk Assessment Guidance

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Under the UK Online Safety Act 2023 (OSA), providers of regulated user-to-user and search services (service providers) have a raft of new duties, including to keep people safe from illegal harm. The duties are focused on...more

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Online Safety Risk Assessments Have Arrived: Five Steps for Building a Globally Adaptable Process

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Safety risk assessments are becoming a preferred regulatory tool around the world. Online safety laws in Australia, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States will require a range of providers to evaluate the safety...more

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UK Online Safety Act Becomes Law: What To Expect Next

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Last week, the UK’s Online Safety Bill received royal assent and became law. With this development, Ofcom, the regulator for the new Online Safety Act (the Act or OSA), has published a roadmap to explain how the Act will be...more

Wiley Rein LLP

Report: U.S-U.K. Trade Agreement Negotiations to Begin This Month

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The United States and United Kingdom are preparing to begin negotiations on a new trade agreement later this month. According to an October 3, 2023 reporting by POLITICO, President Biden and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak are...more

Hogan Lovells

UK Draft Media Bill (Part 3) - Pre-legislative scrutiny phase

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The UK Draft Media Bill, which is set to reshape the broadcasting landscape in the UK, is now in the pre-legislative scrutiny phase. In this Part 3 of our series on the Draft Media Bill, we set out the next steps before the...more

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UK Draft Media Bill series (Part 2) - PSB prominence

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In Part 2 of our series on the UK’s Draft Media Bill, we take an in-depth look at Part 2 of the Draft Media Bill, which seeks to update the public service broadcaster (PSB) prominence regime, to keep up with the way TV...more

BCLP

With clarity comes conviction. How are crypto-tokens to be treated as property?

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On 28 July 2022, the Law Commission published a consultation paper on digital assets. The outcomes of the consultation will inform the programme for law reform in England and Wales and may therefore result in the tabling of...more

K&L Gates LLP

And So It Begins… First Consideration of "Serious Harm" Threshold in Australian Defamation Claim

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The New South Wales Supreme Court has recently delivered its judgment in Newman v Whittington [2022] NSWSC 249 (Newman), providing the first Australian judicial consideration of the "serious harm" threshold now found in the...more

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Understanding NFTs and Their Legal Implications

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Latham & Watkins lawyers discuss the emerging technology of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), including how they function and their various legal implications in the US, UK, and APAC. Topics: • Understanding NFTs and their...more

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UK regulator publishes consultation on video-sharing platform regulation

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On Friday 16 July 2020, the UK communications regulator, Ofcom, published a consultation on video-sharing platform regulation, calling for views by 24 September 2020. ...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Antitrust M&A Snapshot - February 2020

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Antitrust regulators in the United States and Europe were very active in the final quarter of 2019. The FTC and DOJ continue to investigate and challenge M&A transactions in a variety of industries. Events of this quarter...more

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CMA Publishes Digital Markets Strategy

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Following recent proposals for regulatory reform (see articles here and here) in relation to competition in digital markets, the CMA published its new Digital Markets Strategy on 3 July 2019, which sets out the agency’s...more

White & Case LLP

The meaning of "serious harm": the Supreme Court in Lachaux v Independent Print

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The increasing accessibility of digital media has enabled businesses to become not only readers, but also publishers of their own information and opinions. This in turn requires due consideration of the limits of what can,...more

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House of Lords issues report on digital advertising market

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Yesterday the House of Lords published a report into the UK’s digital advertising market. It includes: a call for a CMA study into whether the market is working fairly for businesses and consumers; proposals for enhancing...more

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Commission’s notice on Brexit and copyright: Is it as bad as it sounds?

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On 28 March 2018 the Commission published a Notice to Stakeholders on the Withdrawal of the UK and EU rules in the field of Copyright. The Notice reminds stakeholders that, unless the UK comes to an agreement with the EU,...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Do We Need A Truth In Advertising Act? The Industry and Retailers Self-Regulate Photoshopping Ads

Digitally altered images of models have been a controversial advertising issue for decades. In Great Britain, the Advertising Standards Authority Ltd., which is the governing regulatory advertising body, in 2011 banned...more

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Wikitribune and broken news

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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales completes crowd-funding this week for his latest venture: Wikitribune, a news platform that, while not affiliated with Wikipedia, applies Wikipedia’s collaborative model to journalism. Wales...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

BuzzFeed Faces $11 Million in Defamation Suit by British News Agency

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BuzzFeed, the popular independent digital media company, was hit with an $11 million defamation suit in January 2016 by journalist Michael Leidig and Central European News (“CEN”). Leidig and CEN are demanding more than...more

K&L Gates LLP

Is Social Media Sharing of Sports Clips Copyright Infringement? Recent UK Judicial Clarification and International Implications

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In our annual review last year “Sports Industry 2015: A Year of Unprecedented Landmark Change”, we predicted that the battle against media piracy would be a key area for rights holders in 2016, highlighting “social media...more

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Technology, Media and Telecommunications Review – UK

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The establishment of the Office of Communications (Ofcom) and the entry into force of the Communications Act 2003 (Act) fundamentally altered the UK communications landscape. The Act mirrored the technological neutrality of...more

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