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Crypto Open Patent Alliance v Wright; Wright and other companies v BTC Core and others [2024] EWHC 1198 (Ch) What are the practical implications of this case? At the conclusion of the case earlier this year, Mr Justice Mellor stated that, over the course of the trial, Dr Wright had repeatedly and extensively misled the court and had fabricated documents said to substantiate his claim to be Satoshi Nakamoto. A central unresolved issue, however, concerned the injunctive relief to be imposed on Dr Wright. The not-for-profit COPA sought a series of injunctions intended to stop him from continuing to advance his false claims in proceedings against Bitcoin developers and others within the cryptocurrency community. The court’s ruling grants injunctions restraining Dr Wright (and the other claimants in the related claims) from bringing further proceedings, in this or other jurisdictions, to re-litigate his assertion that he is Satoshi, and restraining him from threatening such proceedings. Mr Justice Mellor declined to award three further injunctions, including those restraining him from asserting...

Statement follows in full. US creators launch ‘Stealing Isn’t Innovation’ campaign targeting tech companies’ sweeping theft of copyrighted works. The effort spotlights harm to American creators and US jobs, economic growth, and the country’s international standing. Washington, DC (22 January 2026) — The Human Artistry Campaign has unveiled an advocacy initiative representing a wide cross-section of the American creative community to challenge Big Tech’s unlawful mass harvesting of copyrighted material to build and fuel their GenAI platforms. In the scramble to lead the new GenAI frontier, profit-seeking technology firms — from some of the richest companies on the planet to private equity–backed ventures — have copied vast amounts of creative content online without authorisation or paying the people who made it. This large-scale rip-off endangers US employment, stifles growth, and weakens the global ‘soft power’ long underpinned by the US creative industries. Such theft erodes the very bedrock of America’s world-leading entertainment sector and wipes out incentives to generate new works. American creators are being pushed to the margins...

Considered a pioneering ruling, on 27 September 2024 the Court held that Laion — a non-profit assembling datasets for AI training, also for commercial ends — may invoke the text- and data-mining exception in Germany’s implementation of Directive (EU) 2019/790 (the EU Copyright Directive) when scraping images protected by copyright. The central question between the parties was whether Laion, as defendant, could lawfully download and copy photographer Robert Kneschke’s protected image to build an AI training dataset. Laion releases a dataset for third parties to train their systems on, while it does not train any AI itself. It offers approximately 5.85 billion image-to-text pairs to AI image generators, a resource used for commercial activity. The proceedings were closely watched by developers of generative AI, as this is regarded as the first EU case to address the lawfulness of image scraping and later use without consent...

Property development sits at the heart of what everyone in the real estate industry does, from dedicated developers to owners improving their own investment assets. Projects may span light refurbishment and significant remodelling right through to ground‑up builds. Participants are mainly taxed under the ordinary regime, although certain rules are tailored specifically to development. Schemes may deliver commercial premises, dwellings, or mixed‑use outcomes, for example flats above shopfronts at pavement level. Many of the issues overlap across commercial and residential schemes, though material distinctions also arise. Any project must address indirect taxes alongside direct tax questions. This Practice Note examines direct tax matters that arise specifically on commercial land development. Its focus is the position of landowners developing their own sites, rather than contractors delivering works without a proprietary stake in the land. It also encompasses investors enhancing their holdings as well as specialist developers operating across the market. Work may comprise modest upgrades, extensive alterations, or the creation of entirely new structures. In broad terms the mainstream tax regime...

Structure Reasons for the developer to form a JV There are several grounds on which a developer may choose to pursue a JV in connection with a development project, such as the following: spreading risk with another party and placing particular specialist risks with the JV participant most suited to manage them, combining specialist knowledge and expertise to marshal resources on a larger scale and for greater returns, gaining access to specific market knowledge from a party with specialist market experience outside the developer’s usual course of business From the developer’s viewpoint, in practice, it should be cautious not to over‑engineer the JV framework if this might fetter the management of the development process—beginning with the acquisition of land at the outset, continuing through the construction phase, and finally when making disposals upon completion. For example, a more traditional contractual relationship, such as a development agreement, may be more suitable where the goal of sharing in profits can be achieved through...

1 Introduction 1.1 This guidance note sits alongside the following Lexis+® UK precedent development agreements: Agreement for lease—developer landlord to carry out major works Property development agreement (also commonly called a ‘building agreement’) Forward funding agreement 1.2 Sections 1–31 set out general matters for all development agreements. Sections 32–34 cover points specific to the Precedents: Property development agreement, Agreement for lease—developer landlord to carry out major works, and Forward funding agreement. 2 Terminology 2.1 In this note, the following terms apply: Developer The party who constructs, redevelops or refurbishes a building to realise a profit, usually by disposing of the completed scheme (with or without tenants) or, less often, by holding the asset and letting it to one or more tenants (the latter being uncommon, as most developers do not operate as commercial landlords). In building contracts, this party is often styled the ‘Employer’, as the Developer appoints the Contractor (defined below) to deliver the...