A recent decision of the CMA has found that instigation and awareness of cartel activity can be sufficient to attract a fine under UK competition law. Following an investigation into suspected anti-competitive behaviour in relation to the price at which
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A fake interview with a politician does not violate her personal rights; an update from the German Regional Court
By Roman Brtka
The facts
The plaintiff in this case was Katrin Göring-Eckardt, the Vice-President of the German Parliament (Bundestag) and former Chairwoman of the parliamentary group of the political party “Bündnis 90/Die Grünen” (“The Greens”).
The defendant runs the online publication “T.…
MediaWrites Party 2022, Panel discussion recording
Everyone is talking about these developments in the media, entertainment and tech space, but what exactly are they and do any of them have any real staying power? Are they augmenting, disrupting or replacing traditional media, or are they simply…
European Parliament passes resolution providing recommendations for enhancing the European video game and esports industries
By Will Deller
Value and Potential
The Resolution highlights the size of the video games industry within the EU, but also that it is dominated by principally non-EU developers and publishers. Meanwhile, it states that esports is still at an embryonic stage of…
Private Equity Enters the Field: new key players shaking up the world of sport
The annual total revenue of the global sports market is expected to reach $600 billion per annum by 2025. Earlier this year, Forbes released a list of the world’s most valuable sports empires, citing a number of reasons…
The EU Digital Services Act (DSA) has finally been published in the EU Official Journal
The EU Digital Services Act (DSA) was finally published in the EU Official Journal on 27 October 2022, which marks the end of its adoption process.
‘Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 October 2022…
Black History Month – music and education join forces to celebrate Black history
By Intisar Abdi
The Massive Attack on lack of diversity in the school curriculum
Bristol’s Massive Attack have recently collaborated on Cargo Classroom; an educational programme aimed at increasing the diversity of the English school curriculum. With Stormzy’s Scholarship for Black UK Students…
The Iberia Festival case: The Spanish Supreme Court finds infringement of a deceased artist’s image rights
The law
Image rights are personality rights that allow anyone to authorise or prohibit certain uses of or activities on their image in which the individual is recognisable (e.g. name and physical appearance). In this sense, image rights concern several…
Sports Data Rights: Genius v Sportradar settles – what does this mean for sports data rights holders and the industries they supply?
By Andrew Cox
We wrote about this case at the start of 2021, wide eyed and eager to see how exclusive data rights arrangements would fare in the face of the competition claims, and whether rightsholders would continue to be able to…
The Australian anti-siphoning scheme – will the latest Government review lead to the long-overdue reform?
By Rich Hawkins
During a busy phase of the NBN rollout, it was with a wry smile that a former Communications Minister told a meeting of Australian sport CEOs that his Department did not have the ‘bandwidth’ to address the issues with the…