Australia has changed its proposed Big Tech news tax, reversing some earlier changes following industry pushback. The scheme would require major digital platforms to fund news deals or pay a 2.5 percent tax on... (more story)

MLex Summary: Hong Kong building contractors and individuals are facing an expanded Competition Commission investigation into suspected bid-rigging involving 28 building maintenance projects worth around HK$50... (more story)

MLex Summary: The New Zealand Commerce Commission on Thursday called for greater competition and consumer choice in electricity connections. The commission warned electricity networks that impeding competition... (more story)

Anthropic told a California judge that Reddit’s data-scraping lawsuit is really a copyright fight in disguise and should be preempted by federal law. Reddit countered that Anthropic did more than scrape users’... (more story)

Refusal by the full US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to reconsider its approach to design patent infringement preserves the ability of district courts to assess visual similarity and functionality b... (more story)

An unusual public-private research model that assigned university inventions to a private sector partner produced a 683-asset video-compression portfolio acquired by Dolby Laboratories, and the partnership wil... (more story)

The US Court of International Trade on Wednesday upheld the final results of the Commerce Department’s second redetermination for countervailing duty orders for Russian phosphate fertilizers.

MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control announced a $60,764 settlement with Rice Lake Weighing Systems, which agreed to settle its and its Italian subsidiary's potential civ... (more story)

The US Court of International Trade on Tuesday remanded the Commerce Department's rejection of an importer's request for exclusions on Section 232 duties for flat-rolled stainless steel products. 

MLex Summary: The UK government should reconsider its plans for a social media ban for under-16s because it could push young people toward riskier platforms and restrict access to information, members of the S... (more story)

MLex Summary: Smart glasses need specific regulation on top of the existing European rules for data privacy and AI, Norway's data protection officer said on Wednesday. Line Coll said that current laws were wri... (more story)

MLex Summary: ACRO, the UK’s criminal records office, has been reprimanded by the country's privacy watchdog after cybersecurity failures jeopardized the personal information of almost 11,000 people. The Infor... (more story)