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This Checklist covers the key considerations when formulating a strategy to combat counterfeiting and piracy. Use this Checklist together with Practice Note: Anti-counterfeiting and anti-piracy—strategy. Begin by evaluating how widespread the issue is. Consider who has been consulted: Internal teams close to the market, such as customer services dealing with consumer complaints External investigators gauging counterfeit prevalence across specific channels (online and in store) and carrying out test purchases Agencies including the Chartered Trading Standards Institute (‘Trading Standards’) and HMRC Internet service providers and website operators where targets largely trade online Be aware that staff or members of the public may spot fake goods in shops, market stalls, at events or while on holiday and may proactively alert the rights holder. Confirm whether the following key details have been established: Most affected territories Most affected products Health and safety concerns Degree of risk to consumers and brand value Principal perpetrators Any...

In this issue: EU fundamentals Commercial Data protection and cybersecurity Free movement, immigration and employment Financial services Energy Environment IP Life sciences Regulatory TMT Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Trackers EU fundamentals European Commission releases March 2024 infringements package The European Commission has unveiled its March 2024 infringements package, highlighting EU Member States it is pursuing for breaches of EU law. It is sending letters of formal notice, issuing reasoned opinions and making referrals to the Court of Justice against Member States including Germany, Spain, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Slovenia, Ireland, Greece, Italy, Hungary, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Sweden, Finland, Latvia, Luxembourg, Poland, Netherlands and Croatia, for infringements spanning the environment, internal market, industry, entrepreneurship and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), migration, home affairs and security union, justice, energy and climate, and mobility and transport. See: LNB News 13/03/2024 51. Council of the EU allows EU to...

In this issue: Internet Data protection Media Advertising, marketing and sponsorship LexTalk®TMT: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Internet Ofcom provides update on X’s investigation over reported Grok-generated sexualised imagery Ofcom has issued a further update on its ongoing probe into X after reports that the platform’s Grok AI chatbot account was used to create and circulate demeaning sexual deepfakes of real people, including children. Having contacted X on 5 January 2026 and opened a formal investigation on 12 January 2026, Ofcom says X has indicated it has since introduced steps to tackle the problem. The regulator notes it is continuing to work with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), which has launched its own investigation. It also stressed that the Online Safety Act 2023 (OSA 2023) does not govern all AI chatbots, explaining that chatbots which only permit one-to-one interactions,...

In this issue: New technologies Information technology Internet Data protection Media Advertising, marketing and sponsorship Telecommunications Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information New technologies MLex: OpenAI, Microsoft, Google and other major AI players noted today’s release of the EU AI Act’s code of practice for general‑purpose AI models, yet accompanying guidance and a data disclosure template are still outstanding, leaving uncertainty over whether providers will commit without the complete picture. With guidance and the template still awaited, it is unclear if firms will sign up before seeing the entire package. The European Commission is informally considering a grace period to ease early compliance, though timeframe has not yet been determined and confirmation is pending. A handful of last‑minute edits also entered the concluding text, yielding mixed outcomes on a pivotal copyright element. See: AI developers view the final iteration of the EU...

New starter guide This new starter guide introduces the technology, media and telecoms (TMT) practice area and the kinds of transactions lawyers in this field routinely handle. It is aimed at trainee solicitors and anyone unfamiliar with any of the topics within TMT. What technology lawyers do What media lawyers do What telecoms lawyers do Key TMT topics Q&As Further reading materials Essential external links for TMT lawyers Key resources tab This guide helps you make the most of LexisNexis® TMT materials by showing how to locate them, sign up for email alerts, access Q&As and send a query to the LexisAsk team. If a point is not covered here, use the Topics tab on the TMT homepage, or the Topics dropdown on any page, to explore further practice area content. At the highest level, TMT lawyers focus on either contentious work (disputes) or non-contentious work (transactions or advisory). Contentious TMT practitioners support clients in...

Digital Business—Austria—Q&A guide [Archived, 2021 edition] This Practice Note presents a country-focused Q&A on e‑commerce in Austria, issued within the Lexology Getting the Deal Through series by Law Business Research (January 2020). Authors: DORDA—Axel Anderl; Andreas Zahradnik; Bernhard Müller; Paul Doralt; Christian Schöller; Elisabeth König; Nino Tlapak 1. How can the government’s attitude and approach to internet issues best be described? The newly elected Austrian administration has stated it will: extend its broadband agenda, including 5G deployment; uphold the EU’s net neutrality; create and back an Austrian Cloud aligned with the GDPR and data protection norms; bolster the Austrian Data Protection Authority; endorse the PSI Directive and the Open Data Directive; prioritise AI and blockchain; and advance digitalisation and technological innovation. Nonetheless, it will be judged not only on its composition and programme, but on tangible delivery. 2. What legislation governs business on the internet? Broadly, the same rules that apply to offline...

ARCHIVED : This Practice Note has been archived and is not maintained. Keeping pace with case law that shapes a practice area is a constant challenge for practitioners. This Practice Note distils the principal appeal decisions (Court of Appeal and Supreme Court, and, where appropriate, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)) that we have reported, providing users with straightforward access to those rulings. The tracker is browsable, and cases are grouped under the following headings: Key DR developments, Applicable law, Jurisdiction, Service, Limitation, Claims and remedies, Injunctions and other relief orders, Pre-action, Litigation, Case management, Applications specific, Evidence and disclosure, Settlement, ADR, Appeals and Judicial Review, Costs and funding, Enforcement, Insolvency Alternatively, search the tracker using [CTL]+[F]. This resource is not intended to be a complete catalogue of all appeals. Key DR developments Brexit—Supreme Court—Article 50 litigation―UK Supreme Court rules on the limits of the prerogative and devolved powers In its highly anticipated judgment in R (on...