Mimi Zou, Grace Cheng and Marta Soria Heredia look at ‘trustlessness’ which they argue has given rise to a common misperception of smart contracts reducing or even eliminating the need for trust.
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Regulations revoke several aspects of the NIS Regulations such as the obligation to communicate network security policy to the European Commission.
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Legal Design Engineer, Charlotte Baker, explains what we mean by the increasingly popular term ‘legal design’, the principles and tools involved, and explores various real-life examples of legal design in practice. In this first part of a four-part series of short articles, she defines what this new term means.
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A round-up of other techlaw news from the week not covered separately
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The new directives cover the supply of digital content and sale of goods to consumers.
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The European Parliament has agreed the draft Copyright Directive in plenary session.
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Lawrence Akka QC reviews a recent judgment in the Singapore courts that examined algorithms, contract liability and the law of mistake
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The Intellectual Property (Copyright and Related Rights) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 have been made which amend UK copyright law and revoke the Portability of Online Content Regulations.
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The Advocate General has issued an opinion in Case 673/17 Planet49 GmbH v Bundesverband der Verbraucherzentralen und Verbraucherverbände – Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband e.V.
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A round-up of other techlaw news from the past week not covered separately on the site
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