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CJEU says Amazon may be liable for trade mark infringement for sale of counterfeit Louboutins The Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) has held that online sales websites like Amazon that operate a “hybrid” business model (offering both the operator’s own sales as well as a marketplace for third parties) may be liable for trade mark inf... ICO tech report highlights privacy challenges for four key technologies The ICO is encouraging developers to consider privacy at an early stage when implementing new technologies and, in its first annual Technology horizons report, examines the implications of some of the most significant technological developments for privac... International tax reform – now more worth the effort? At a webinar on 18 January, the OECD presented its findings on the impact of international tax reform in advance of the full report which will follow in the coming months. International tax reform is politically and technically complex, but the OECD’s lat... New app store Code of Practice In December last year, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) published a new ‘first of its kind’ code of practice aimed at protecting app users. While the code is voluntary, the Government is expecting app store operators and app dev... Accountability and technology: imagining the future of the SM&CR The Senior Managers and Certification Regime or 'SM&CR', a regulatory lever which seeks to foster greater individual accountability within (most) regulated firms, and which takes aim at the conduct failings that fuelled the 2008 banking crisis, is set to ... HMT Review of Payment Services Regulations: is this the beginning of a tectonic shift in the regulatory bedrock? Ten years ago, the thought of your phone scanning your face before you pay for your morning coffee may have been a disturbing one. Five years ago, sharing your account information with anyone but your bank would have been unthinkable. And a year ago, for ... Thinking of setting up a business in Spain? Take a look at the new tax incentives for start-ups In our previous posts on the recently approved Law to foster Spain’s start-up ecosystem (here and here), we focused on tempting expats with some interesting improvements in their special tax regime (along with other sound arguments such as Spanish weather... French National Financial Prosecutor’s Office releases new guidelines for implementing public interest judicial agreements The French National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (Parquet National Financier - PNF) published new Guidelines on public interest judicial agreements (Convention Judiciaire d’Intérêt Public - CJIP) on its website on 16 January 2023, updating those publishe... Digital Services Taxes: draft MLC provisions published by the OECD For the second year running, the OECD provided an update on the two-pillared international tax reform project just days before Christmas. On 20 December 2022, it released draft Multilateral Convention (MLC) provisions on digital services taxes and other r... Halt! House of Lords minutes indicate proposed new TDM exception to be shelved Minutes of a recent meeting of the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee suggest that the UK government is halting its plans to introduce a new copyright and database right exception for text and data mining (“TDM”).  As we reported back in ...