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Ed Sheeran off the hook as High Court finds 'Shape of You' does not infringe On 6 April, the High Court held that Ed Sheeran’s smash hit, Shape of You, did not infringe the musical copyright in Sami Chokri’s song Oh Why, granting Sheeran a declaration of non-infringement.  Background The case took the form of a claim by Sheeran an... UK's digital regulators focus on algorithms The Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum (DRCF) has today published two papers on algorithms, along with a call for comments inviting anyone involved in or having a view on the use of algorithms to share their views until 8 June 2022. The DRCF was establi... Royal Mail and Reed Online pay the price for unsolicited direct marketing emails The two latest fines issued by the ICO to Royal Mail and Reed Online for breaches of the direct marketing rules contained in PECR reflect the no-nonsense approach of the regulator to contraventions of the legislation, with one-off mistakes caused by human... Automated Vehicles Come One Step Closer Whether considering how to reduce product delivery costs, reconfigure insurance models or improve associated technologies such as AI software and 5G and satellite networks, businesses are gearing up for the day when automated vehicles (“AVs”) are permitte... Google responds to CNIL Cookie Fine – ‘Reject All’ now on equal footing Google has announced the completion of “a full redesign” of its cookie consent practices and the “infrastructure” it uses to handle cookies. Under this new practice, users of Google search and YouTube in Europe will see a new cookie consent choice window ... Does prudential policy have a role to play in tackling climate change? The start of 2022 marked the official incorporation of climate change into the core supervisory process of the UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), the regulator of banks and other large financial institutions. The PRA is now actively supervising UK ... Private copying on the cloud? Fair compensation still payable but practical questions remain On 24 March 2022, the Court of Justice of the EU handed down its decision in the snappily-named case Austro-Mechana Gesellschaft zur Wahrnehmung mechanisch-musikalischer Urheberrechte Gesellschaft mbH v Strato AG (Case C‑433/20). The CJEU was asked to con... It's not TP bein' green As Kermit (and others, more recently) famously sung, "It's not easy bein' green; it seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things." So it is with ESG factors: there is undeniably a growing focus on businesses' sustainability credentials, but this ... Third party access to documents in the courts and tribunals Taxpayers bringing appeals against HMRC in the First-tier Tribunal (Tax Chamber) (the FTT) are rightly concerned to mitigate the risk that documents relating to their appeals which contain confidential or commercially sensitive information are not accesse... Latest Government Cyber Breaches Survey published On Wednesday 30 March, the Government published its 2022 Cyber Security Breaches Survey. The survey, which is now in its seventh year, informs government policy on cyber security and can help organisations learn more about what their competitors, and the ...