Environmental and climate-related advertising claims have increasingly been the subject of (not only) German courts for some time (“greenwashing”). After all, such claims – if inaccurate – may in particular violate the prohibition of misleading commercial practices according to §
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Loot boxes: UK government says no to regulation
Executive summary
On 18 July 2022, the UK government published its formal response (the Response) to its 2020 call for evidence on loot boxes in video games (the Consultation). The Consultation received over 32,000 responses and 50 submissions from the…
The UK High Court permits service of legal proceedings via an NFT
In the case of D’Aloia v Binance Holdings & Others [2022] EWHC 1723 (Ch), Fabrizio D’Aloia – an Italian engineer and founder of Microgame, an Italian online gambling company – sought permission from the court to have a crypto wallet provider…
UK ICO to launch investigation into targeted advertising in the gambling sector
By Andy Danson
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) launched its ICO25 Plan on 14 July 2022. The document sets out why the ICO’s work is important, what it wants to be known for (and by whom) and how it intends to achieve its…
AI-created artwork as conceptual art: the case of DALL·E mini
These past few weeks the Internet community has had its fun with DALL·E mini (“DALL·E”), an Artificial Intelligence able to generate a series of nine images by means of a written prompt provided by the user. To establish connections between…
Secondary ticket sellers on alert as Australia’s ‘green and gold decade’ of major sports events approaches
By Rich Hawkins
Introduction
Ticket scalping and the on-selling of tickets to sporting and entertainment events is a practice that event organisers and sporting organisations have been trying to detect and deter for years. This is because the unauthorised on-selling of tickets has…
Podcast: Legal Sports Gambling in the US
By Craig Giles
Craig Giles, a partner in Bird&Bird’s sports team, discusses the legalisation of sports gambling in the United States with Jodi Balsam, Professor of Clinical Law at Brooklyn Law School. Professor Balsam teaches Sports Law courses at Brooklyn Law School and…
Literary characters as copyright works: breaking new ground in the UK, as the Court also considers parody, pastiche.
The case is Shazam Productions v Only Fools the Dining Experience Ltd [2022] EWHC 2179 (IPEC) and, although only a decision of the most junior UK IP Court, is further evidence of the current expansionist approach – in the UK…
Serious harm considered again in Newman v Whittington [2022] NSWSC 249
Introduction
The ‘serious harm’ element to the cause of action for defamation came into effect on 1 July 2021 in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory as part of the Model Defamation Amendment Provisions…
Netherlands – Prohibition on use of “role models” in high-risk games of chance advertising
The scope of the prohibition
High-risk games of chance
The prohibition solely applies to high-risk games of chance. These are all games of chance of which, per the Dutch Media Act 2008, advertising may only be broadcast between 21:00…