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The CJEU recently decided in Renckhoff[1] that the inclusion of a photograph of the city of Cordoba on a school's website without permission from the photographer, which photograph had been obtained by a pupil at the school from a third party travel website
According to the International Labour Organization (“ILO”) the ‘platform economy’ emerged in the early 2000s. Two forms of digital labour platforms can be distinguished: ‘crowd work’ and ‘work on demand via apps’. The ILO expects that digital employment will further expand in the future. But the ILO warns that little is known about the quality of jobs that are generated in the platform economy.
Raising and running court actions to a conclusion before a judge is only part of the overall picture in most large dispute teams. Dispute resolution is an area which covers many topics– in Brodies alone, more than 130 people work on delivering solutions for a diverse client base.
In June, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision that under certain circumstances, damages for lost foreign sales may be available, in U.S. litigation, to owners of infringed U.S. patents in WesternGeco LLC v. ION Geophysical Corp., 585 U.S. ___ (2018). Considering little-used 35 U.S.C. § 271(f)(2) of the Patent Act
2018 was the year of data privacy. In April, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was called to testify before Congress to answer difficult questions about Facebook’s protections for its user data. In May, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation made it known to the world that the privacy of its citizens was to be taken seriously and imposed severe consequences for those who failed to comply. Across the United States, states like California and Colorado enacted sweeping data protection laws. The message is clear: consumers want their privacy and governments are taking steps to protect them.
On June 11, 2018, the Canadian Securities Administrators (the “CSA”) published CSA Staff Notice 46-308 – Securities Law Implications for Offerings of Tokens (the “Staff Notice”) providing regulatory guidance on token and coin offerings.
