2/27/2023 2:21:31 AM China: final form of standard contract for cross-border transfers of personal data released By Richard Bird Fan Li The Cyber Security Administration of China (CAC) has now published the final version of the standard contract (the Standard Contract)....
2/23/2023 2:38:03 PM English High Court finds no copyright can subsist in the Bitcoin File Format By Thomas Clark Emma Probyn Christine Simpson Tom Hingley Tom Gardner +2 more... Show less In its recent judgment in Wright and others v. BTC Core and others [2023] EWHC 222 (Ch), the English High Court had cause to consider...
2/23/2023 8:07:17 AM Happy Valentine’s from BaFin: new guidance on payment services has been issued By Alicia Hildner Alexander Glos It has been a while since BaFin has issued new guidance with regard to the supervision of payment services. More precisely, it took...
2/21/2023 2:12:43 PM Government consultation on regulation of Buy Now Pay Later products By Christine Simpson Claire Harrop Greg King Ciaran Houston +1 more... Show less On 14 February 2023 the UK Treasury published its second consultation on the proposed regulation of Buy-Now-Pay-Later (BNPL) credit...
2/21/2023 1:35:40 PM German Federal Supreme Court’s IP Bridge v HTC ruling: "covenant-to-sue-last" can lead to patent exhaustion By Corin Gittinger The German Federal Supreme Court (BGH)’s ruling in IP Bridge v HTC (X ZR 123/20), issued at the end of January 2023 and recently...
2/21/2023 1:26:28 PM Generative AI: Five things for lawyers to consider By Giles Pratt Rachael Annear Maxwell Smith Katie Hyewon Sa Claudia Chan Adam Gillert +3 more... Show less Introduction Generative artificial intelligence (‘AI’) tools are algorithms than can be used to generate new content, including text,...
2/17/2023 10:42:21 AM Basel and the prudential treatment of cryptoassets - what is the space for banks and how expensive will it become? By Marius Raetz Alexander Glos Following a challenging year for cryptoassets, 2023 is the year of legislative reform as legislators calibrate their approach to...
2/16/2023 8:54:51 PM A new design for EU design law By Miriam Benmoussa Lutz Riede After more than 20 years since the Community design framework was introduced, the Commission has taken the first steps to update the...
2/16/2023 7:49:33 PM Online platforms - withholding tax obligations not a breach of EU law (Airbnb v ITA) By Edward Buxton Executive Summary: The Court of Justice has held that Italian rules imposing withholding tax (WHT) and data-gathering obligations on...
2/16/2023 1:34:35 PM Penny lane: the long road to a digital pound By Peter Sacks Claire Harrop Cyrus Pocha On 7 February 2023, the Bank of England and HM Treasury jointly launched a consultation on the potential for a digital pound, a UK-based...
2/15/2023 5:15:53 PM Ransomware victims beware: UK & US tackle ransomware with first multilateral sanctions and UK victims’ reporting guidance By Hannah Walker Gore Andrew Bulovsky Katie Palms Stephanie Brown Cripps +1 more... Show less The coordinated designation of individuals under both the UK and US cyber sanctions regimes, in an effort to combat ransomware attacks,...
2/14/2023 10:40:41 AM Circular thinking in construction: using Blockchain to verify the origin of second-hand goods By Brock Dahl Sarah-Jane Fick Ann Matthias The reuse and repurposing of second-hand technology, goods and complex materials will play an important role in achieving a more...