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The ECJ judgment In its judgment, rendered on 4 May 2023 (proceeding C-300/21), the European Court of Justice stated far-reaching principles on compensation of damages arising from a GDPR breach whose...
Author(s): Giuseppe Curtò, Federico Cazzaniga
On 30 March 2023, the Italian data protection authority (Garante), announced the temporary and immediate suspension in Italy ...
Author(s): Laura Bellezza, Giuseppe Curtò, Hendrik Witt
The right of communication to the public is a cornerstone for rightsholders in the digital age. Almost all use cases of copyright protected material online touch on the right of communication to the p...
Author(s): Oliver Talhoff, Theresa Ehlen
Speedread Last week, we reported that the European Parliament is pushing forward with the adoption of the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act). Among the amendments to the European Commission’s origin...
Author(s): Lutz Riede, Giles Pratt, Matthias Hofer, Alexandra Morgan
The public view on crypto-assets ranges from the holy grail of disintermediation in financial services to mere scam. Regardless of that, and despite a recent backlash, the use of crypto-assets by reta...
Author(s): Daniel Klingenbrunn, Alexander Glos, Jan Struckmann
Since the landmark Schrems II decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in summer 2020, transfers of personal data from the European Economic Area (EEA) to the US have become more ...
Author(s): Philipp Roos, Christoph Werkmeister
More than two years after the adoption of the European Commission’s proposal on an AI Act (see our briefing here), the European Parliament (Parliament) voted in favour of its position today. Discussio...
Author(s): Theresa Ehlen, Lutz Riede, Christoph Werkmeister, Satya Staes Polet, Julia Utzerath, Eugene McQuaid, Victor Garcia Lopez
No 1 of our blogpost series: ‘Very...
Author(s): Theresa Ehlen, Lutz Riede, Laura Knoke, Lena Hanke