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The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has launched a consultation into proposed changes to the media mergers regime. These...

After several drafts and amendments, on February 1 2024, the ICO’s Data Protection and Journalism Code of Practice has finally been...

On 31 May 2023, the UK Intellectual Property office (UK IPO) published the “UK Industry Agreement on Music Streaming Metadata”. The...

A sexual assault victim has successfully defended a libel claim brought by the perpetrator, relying both on the defence of truth and,...

The rapid development of generative artificial intelligence (AI) is causing concern among various music industry stakeholders. In the...

The phrase “Wagatha Christie”, claimed to have been coined by Dan Atkinson in a viral tweet sent back in 2019, has been a buzzword in the...

Laura Gray looks at key aspects of the judgment and its consideration of a return date and expectations of privacy. Factual Background At...

The Regional Court of Hamburg addressed the question in August last year as to whether a fake interview with a German politician violates...

In February 2022, the Supreme Court of New South Wales became the first Australian superior Court to consider the Australian ‘serious...

In order to comply with the transposition obligation – yet with 5 months of delay and with a result that seems to be (at least)...

7 June 2021 was the date by which Member States were required to implement the EU’s  DSM Directive, an ambitious effort aimed at...

Alban Kang and Pin-Ping Oh explain the key proposals and implications on the latest public consultation on the draft Singapore Copyright...

Bryony Hurst and Theo Rees-Bidder from our Dispute Resolution team look back at this summer’s judgment on the novel data protection...

In a bid to achieve "technological sovereignty", the European Commission has unveiled a wide-ranging package of proposals that will...

Conor Hume provides an update on the dispute (previously reported for MediaWrites) between Epic Games, publishers of the game Fortnite,...

Following the recent ruling in the first stage of Rebekah Vardy’s libel claim before the English High Court, a preliminary hearing on...