Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation

The European Commission’s safeguards for searching private phones mean its inspection practices respect the requirements of a recent EU court ruling that said a judicial warrant may be needed for certain kinds of seizures,...(read more)

The growing political and financial power of large technology companies is taxing the EU’s legislative and judicial systems, according to a senior judge at the EU's top court. Laws are becoming difficult to understand and ...(read more)

The European Commission should consider bringing together independent advice on competition cases into a single opinion that could better inform subsequent court scrutiny, EU General Court judge Johannes Laitenberger has s...(read more)

Japan’s expanding anime business faces challenges from piracy networks abroad whose operators can hide behind anonymous hosting services and multiple websites, leaving rights holders dependent on technical investigations a...(read more)

China has called for AI copyright rules that protect human creativity while balancing innovation and fairness, urging global cooperation on issues such as training-data licensing, ownership of generated content and infring...(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)

Compromises reportedly have yet to be agreed on the main political questions in the European Parliament's review of the proposed EU Industrial Accelerator Act, despite a Dec. 1 committee vote now only three weeks away. Ger...(read more)

MLex Summary: Businesses selling goods in Northern Ireland will face the EU’s ban on products made with forced labor from Dec. 14, 2027 after EU and UK officials agreed to add the regulation to the Windsor Framework. The d...(read more)

China's trade surplus surpassed $1 trillion for a second consecutive year in the first 10 months of 2026, adding to trade tensions with the US and EU. The widening imbalance comes ahead of further US-China trade talks. Bes...(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)