POFMA: Singapore’s anti-fake news law
Darren Grayson Chng, our Singapore Correspondent, reports on the background and passage of Singapore’s controversial fake news law which has extra territorial consequences…
Intellectual Property
Airbnb portal is an information society service: AG Opinion in Case C-390/18
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….
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High Court rejects judicial review against the ASA over broadband advertising
The High Court has ruled in favour of the Advertising Standards Authority in a judicial review claim brought by Cityfibre….
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Cross-border access to online TV and radio content: new directive adopted by European Council
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….
Online Harms White Paper published
The Home Office and Department of Media, Culture and Sport have jointly published an Online Harms White Paper…
Techsplainer: The Code behind Cryptocurrency
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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Space 2.0: regulating growth in the space industry
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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Jurisdiction in online trade mark infringement cases: the AG’s Opinion in Case C-172/18 AMS Neve v Heritage Audio
The Advocate General has issued an opinion in Case C-172/18 AMS Neve Ltd and others v Heritage Audio SL and another….
This week’s techlaw news snippets
A round-up of other techlaw news from the past week not covered separately on the site (w/b 29/04/2019)…
Controversial Copyright Directive agreed by European Parliament
The European Parliament has agreed the draft Copyright Directive in plenary session….
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