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'You're hot then you're cold, you're yes then you're no': is the UPC back on (again)? Katy Perry and patent law might not seem to be obvious bedfellows.  However, the lyrics to her hit song Hot n Cold do capture rather well the turbulent nature and recent drama of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and Unitary Patent (UP) project. The build up... European Commission to update supply agreement rules for digital era The European Commission has published its draft updated rules on supply agreements, namely the Vertical Block Exemption Regulation (VBER) and the accompanying Vertical Guidelines. In September, the Commission found that the market had changed significantl... French tax allowance for corporate equity: an aborted initiative The context In France, like in many other countries, debt financing will often be preferred by businesses as it generates, subject to certain conditions and limits, tax deductible financial expenses, instead of non-deductible dividends, had equity financi... ‘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 shou... 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 right... 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 Resilie...