08 May, 2024 Ofcom's consultation on protecting children from online harms casts a wide net By Debbie Heywood Ofcom has published its second major consultation on the Online Safety Act (OSA) focusing on protecting children from harms online. Under...
01 May, 2024 Too good to be true? It probably is (AI) By Oz Watson A well-known TV presenter, Liz Bonnin, has been caught up in an elaborate AI scam when her likeness was used to deceive an...
01 May, 2024 ICO and Ofcom set out collaborative vision for regulating online services By Debbie Heywood The UK's Online Safety Act (OSA) places obligations on providers of online user-to-user and search services (or parts of them) likely to...
25 Apr, 2024 A fireside chat with Guy Parker of the ASA and Jason Freeman of the CMA By Louise Popple Partner Giles Crown chats with Guy Parker (GP), Chief Executive of the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), and Jason Freeman (JF),...
24 Apr, 2024 Brand owners need to act now to secure their continued right to use distinctive packaging designs in the EU By Louise Popple What's the issue? We have already written about how the proposed new EU Packaging & Packaging Waste Regulation could restrict the ability...
19 Apr, 2024 UPC shifts towards English as the lingua franca By Paul England In a significant judgment, the UPC Court of Appeal in Curio Bioscience v 10x Genomics*, has made a decision that is likely to shift the...
16 Apr, 2024 Is the UK rethinking its approach to regulating AI? By Debbie Heywood Two months is a long time when it comes to AI. The UK government confirmed it had no plans to introduce AI-specific legislation in...
10 Apr, 2024 Level up with Play: our guide to the video game industry By Debbie Heywood The fifth edition of our Play Guide to the video game industry is out now. It reflects the key issues facing businesses in the video game...
10 Apr, 2024 Crypto considerations may be game changers By Daniel Hirschfield Charlotte Hill Mila Pencheva Shaanil Senarath-Dassanayake +1 more... Show less Financial regulation may not be most video game developers’ first consideration. However, there are a number of ways that a token,...
22 Mar, 2024 The Illumina Grail saga continues By Paolo Palmigiano Another key development today in the saga of the Illumina Grail case. As many will remember, the European Commission reinterpreted Art.22...
07 Mar, 2024 Jeremy Hunt: the guardian of the angels? Financial promotion changes set to be reversed By Daniel Hirschfield Charlotte Hill It has been less than two months since changes to the high net worth individual and sophisticated investor financial promotion exemptions...
29 Feb, 2024 It's the not knowing that kills you - HMRC response times By Graham Samuel-Gibbon HMRC customer service (or lack thereof) has been in the news with the release of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report for HMRC...