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‘Marconi plays the mamba, listen to the radio’: should online radio be built on rock n roll? Internet radio has come a long way since Starship’s hit song ‘We Built This City’ in 1985.  Rather than be confined by digital file formats and software reliability, one can now almost access online content anywhere in the world instantaneously.  But...
DCMS sets out "new, ground-breaking approach" to governing tech in UK The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport yesterday published its Plan for Digital Regulation.  The plan openly capitalises on the government's post-Brexit freedom, and is clear in its ambition to "cement [the UK's] position as the tech capital...
Strategy and Accountability in Digital Trade Deals On the day the UK government announced the start of negotiations on a new breed of "Digital Economy Agreement" between the UK and Singapore, the House of Commons International Trade Committee published their first report from the committee's inquiry into...
Head in the clouds? Codes of conduct may be the way forward There have been discussions for some time now about how standards and codes of conduct can help regulate the (broadly divergent) cloud sector. Yesterday’s discussion at the Privacy Law & Business’s (PL&B) annual conference was interesting in pointing out...
Taxpayers face difficult choices in seeking resolution for international tax disputes Multinational companies increasingly face situations where two or more countries seek to tax the same profits. Recently enacted and upcoming legislative changes aim to address the perceived undertaxation of multinationals, and to redistribute taxing...
Peterson v Google LLC: a “so what?” for copyright? Should online platforms like YouTube and Uploaded be liable for copyright infringing content posted by their users? This was the critical question for the CJEU in Peterson v Google LLC and Elsevier Inc v Cyando AG and one which had vexed copyright lawyers...
The Portuguese Recovery and Resilience Plan On 16 June 2021, the Portuguese Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP) was endorsed by the European Commission (EC) and is the first recovery plan across the EU to receive such endorsement. The RRP is an instrument created within the EU’s Recovery and...
Ban facial recognition in public: EDPB calls for new AI law to be tougher The EU’s groundbreaking AI proposals (see our Lens Blog), published 21 April 2021, have been broadly welcomed by the EU’s top data protection bodies (the EDPB and EDPS). However, they do have concerns, including around biometric surveillance, as set out...
International tax reform – now it’s time to get excited! In my previous blog, I couldn’t get too excited about the G7’s announcement on 5 June that agreement in principle had been reached on some key aspects of international tax reform because there was so little detail and an agreement between 7 seemed a drop...
International tax reform – now it’s time to get excited! In my previous blog, I couldn’t get too excited about the G7’s announcement on 5 June that agreement in principle had been reached on some key aspects of international tax reform because there was so little detail and an agreement between 7 seemed a drop...