Ofcom consults on guidance for video-sharing platform providers on measures to protect users from harmful material
One in seven platform users claim to have been exposed to potentially harmful material…
Miscellaneous
Regulating artificial intelligence: Where are we now? Where are we heading?
A team from DLA Piper review where we are with the regulation of AI and the myriad guidance now available from regulators and governments…
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Ofcom announces new regulations to upgrade broadband
The new regulations will apply to BT from April 2021 until March 2026….
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Enlarged Board of Appeal provides guidance on how computer-implemented simulations might be patentable under European Patent Convention
Highest judicial authority under the EPC was considering application related to modelling of pedestrian movement….
Facebook, group litigation and distress: when will a precedent emerge?
James Castro-Edwards looks the genesis of the Facebook group litigation now before the courts and considers whether the current trickle of such claims could become a flood….
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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…
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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