Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation

Aliel Machado, the lawmaker tasked with shepherding Brazil's digital markets bill through Congress, said the proposal — which would expand CADE's powers to tackle anticompetitive issues in Brazil — has faced misinformation...(read more)

Major artificial intelligence companies risk using intellectual property and contracts to insulate themselves from competition, a prominent US copyright scholar warned Tuesday. Speaking alongside him at the World Intellect...(read more)

MLex Summary: Zillow failed to convince a US federal judge to reconsider dismissing claims accusing it of illegally tying its mortgage lending services to client referral services it offers real estate agents, allowing it ...(read more)

Some of the lawmakers most influential on IP policy in Congress are set to leave Washington in January, but party shakeups in the House and Senate create both uncertainty and opportunity for progress on IP policy issues, a...(read more)

MLex Summary: Meta’s new commercial terms have prompted Denmark’s competition regulator to refer a complaint to the European Commission on Tuesday, citing possible breaches of competition rules and the Digital Markets Act....(read more)

Seventeen intellectual property lawsuits involving Germany's Beiersdorf, China's SAIC Motor and Amazon’s Indian operator have been returned by an Indian court. The Delhi High Court ruled that website access and arranged de...(read more)

US Senate Democrats stressed the need for significant oversight of President Donald Trump’s trade agenda when they take power in January, including repealing authority for tariffs on Canada.

MLex Summary: Canada's Ministry of Finance announced relief from tariffs imposed on US goods until June 30, 2028, for non-steel goods used in mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction. Other tariff exemptions are for go...(read more)

MLex Summary: The EU has backed a new pledge to help scale up global geothermal energy supply for power and heat to 12 times 2025 levels by 2050 at the COP31 climate conference in Turkey on Tuesday. The signatories of the ...(read more)

Big tech companies are urged to test how their recommender systems affect elections and publish daily lists of their most-viewed public posts under updated draft European Commission guidelines. The regulator also recommend...(read more)

MLex Summary: UK technology companies could lose access to sensitive EU public-sector cloud contracts under the proposed Cloud and AI Development Act, or CADA, potentially amounting to losses of up to the equivalent of £22...(read more)

MLex Summary: Very large online platforms and search engines should test their recommender systems, strengthen safeguards against misleading AI-generated content and give users greater control over their feeds under revise...(read more)