Sep 21, 2023 Online Safety Bill approved by Parliament and ready for Royal Assent By Ally Clark Duncan Calow On 19 September 2023, the Online Safety Bill (the Bill) passed its final parliamentary debate and is now ready to receive Royal Assent....
Sep 13, 2023 Online Safety Bill passed by the House of Lords By Ally Clark Duncan Calow On 6 September 2023 the Online Safety Bill (Bill) had its third reading in the House of Lords. The Bill is the Government’s flagship...
Jul 03, 2023 Online Safety Bill: Progress through Parliament & Ofcom Implementation By Elizabeth Bingham Duncan Calow Alex Lowe Following detailed line by line examinations from April to June, the Online Safety Bill has passed through the committee stage of the...
Apr 26, 2023 London Book Fair 2023: AI’ll Be Back By Duncan Calow Let’s make one thing clear. This article was not written with the aid of ChatGPT. Although perhaps that is exactly what a truly...
Apr 26, 2023 Women in sport event: Image rights – a cross border perspective By Claire Sng When the Forbes' ranking of the World's Highest-Paid Female Athletes was announced in December, it was the first time more than seven...
Apr 13, 2023 7 things brands should know about 'de-influencers' By Alex Lowe Claire Sng $21.1 Billion. That is the predicted value of the Influencer Marketing Industry in 2023 according to The Influencer Marketing Benchmark...
Apr 12, 2023 The Internet Is Ruined. The Metaverse Can Still Be Saved | WIRED By Ryan Black I’m delighted to be featured in this WIRED article on the opportunities for virtual worlds to avoid the mistakes of the past, and to be...
Mar 10, 2023 The Digital Services Act – a new set of regulations for online platforms By Stefan Engels Nico Brunotte Jonas Mücke Christina Faltermeier +1 more... Show less What is the Digital Services Act? On 16 November 2022, the Digital Services Act (hereinafter referred to as: "DSA") has come into force....
Mar 01, 2023 Unfolding the Metaverse: From hype to reality By Sarah Jayne Scott Understand what the metaverse has to offer your business, and how to manage its uncertainties, at our Middle East Technology Summit.Fares...
Jan 31, 2023 Solicitors Regulation Authority investigates 40 suspected ‘SLAPPs’ By Elizabeth Bingham Duncan Calow The SRA is investigating 40 suspected cases of ‘SLAPPs’ – Strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation – brought to its attention...
Jan 30, 2023 Online Safety Bill arrives at the House of Lords By Ally Clark Duncan Calow On 25 January 2023, the Communications and Digital Committee held a one-off session, with Paul Scully the Minister for Tech and Digital...
Jan 23, 2023 What do John Cage, Zippy and Mr Humphries have in common? By Alex Lowe Ally Clark Sam Churney Here's wishing you a belated Happy New Year from three of DLA Piper’s copyright enthusiasts. As many readers of this blog will know, 1...
Jan 16, 2023 Further amendments to the Online Safety Bill not ruled out: Parliament battling over the scope and detail of the Online Safety Bill By Ally Clark Duncan Calow It has been reported that forty-eight Conservative MP’s (including former Conservative Party leader, Sir Ian Duncan Smith, and former...
Jan 09, 2023 The return of the Online Safety Bill By Ally Clark Duncan Calow The draft Online Safety Bill (the Bill), the Government’s flagship proposal for legislation regulating online content (…originally...
Nov 15, 2022 Media, Sport and Entertainment Summit - On demand By Sarah Jayne Scott We held our Media, Sport and Entertainment Summit virtually across a number of dates in September and October. Topics in the programme...
Nov 03, 2022 No more SLAPPs perhaps? By Duncan Calow In a year of Covid, climate change and conflict in Ukraine, the recent celebrity court battles of Vardy v Rooney and Depp v Heard in the...