MLex Summary: The Dutch competition and consumer authority has announced a draft settlement in an investigation of the retail platform Bol.com. It means the company will give greater transparency and freedom t... (more story)

MLex Summary: Bol.com said it would make the terms for consumers and sellers on its platform more transparent in a move to address regulatory concerns raised by the Dutch authority. "We will communicate more c... (more story)

Dutch online marketplace Bol has offered commitments to address competition concerns over seller treatment, price transparency and consumer protection, the national antitrust watchdog said Monday. It will chan... (more story)

Japan has issued new guidance urging companies to make intellectual property a core part of business strategy rather than treating it primarily as a legal or compliance function, marking the government's lates... (more story)

With the US government mulling changes to how it administers federal research grants, funding continuity could become its own consideration when valuing intellectual property-intensive startups. A new model es... (more story)

MLex Summary: US District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer declined to dismiss Digital Millennium Copyright Act claims by Reddit against the artificial intelligence answer engineer Perplexity AI and web-scraping platf... (more story)

Ireland, which chairs the meetings of EU leaders until Dec. 31, has proposed a new "partner origin" category under the Industrial Accelerator Act, creating a framework for determining which products from trust... (more story)

MLex Summary: Goldwind is seeking to annul a European Commission request for information under the bloc's rules against distortive foreign subsidies, according to pleas published in the EU's Official Journal. ... (more story)

MLex Summary: China has condemned and opposed the US decision to add more than 40 Chinese entities to its Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act entity list, calling the move baseless sanctions and economic coerci... (more story)

One year after the UK's Online Safety Act introduced mandatory age checks for pornography platforms, compliance among the most popular sites is high. But evidence suggests compliance alone may not reduce child... (more story)

Most Australian children who had social media accounts before the country's ban on under-16s came into effect were able to retain them or create new ones within three months, a report by the online safety regu... (more story)

MLex Summary: Indonesia's Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs issued a first formal warning to YouTube on Sunday after identifying a livestream that allegedly involved children promoting electronic c... (more story)