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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…