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The Data Act was initially proposed by the European Commission in February 2022 as the second legislative pillar of the EU’s Data Strategy (the first being the Data Governance Act (DGA)). At its core,...
Author(s): Theresa Ehlen, Christoph Werkmeister, Julia Utzerath, Eugene McQuaid, Pablo Artero Lines, Michael Schwaab
On 23 March 2023, the new DLT Pilot Regime entered into force. This European market infrastructure regulation aims to promote distributed ledger technology (DLT) in securities trading and settlement a...
Author(s): Daniel Klingenbrunn, Jan Struckmann, Alexander Glos
We held a webinar for clients with the same title earlier this month. The session attracted one of our highest attendances ever in Asia for a single seminar, demonstrating the interest level in the to...
Author(s): Richard Bird, Nicola Jones, Fan Li
On 21 February 2023 the United States Copyright Office made a significant decision in the realm of AI, copyright and artwork. The Copyright Office took the unusual step of cancelling Kristina Kashtano...
Author(s): Menachem Kaplan, Edward Beard, Marissa Yu
On 8 March 2023 the UK government introduced the Data Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill to Parliament (the Bill). The Bill reflects the government’s view that some elements of the UK’s c...
Author(s): Adam Gillert, Rachael Annear, Giles Pratt
A short history of the short history of NFT Over the last two years, Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) seemed to be everywhere. Their (yet incomplete) success story began as a new means of either representing...
Author(s): Daniel Klingenbrunn, Alexander Glos, Jan Struckmann
Up till now, the reactions to the European Commission’s (Commission) proposal for a European Media Freedom Act (EMFA) have not so much focused on media transactions. However, unless amended during the...
Author(s): Theresa Ehlen, Katharina-Sophia Rieger, Eugene McQuaid
As readers of the TQ blog may have seen in the recent post on 6 February 2023, the UK Treasury has published a consultation paper which proposes extensive changes to the regulation of cryptoassets in ...
Author(s): Kim Sofroniou, Rhodri Thomas