Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation

MLex Summary: Heart Music Group has challenged the Australian competition watchdog’s approval of Australasian Performing Rights Association’s music-licensing arrangements. In an application to the Australian C... (more story)

Brazil’s antitrust tribunal agreed to fine four companies and four individuals more than 90 million reais ($18 million) for their participation in a cartel that rigged public tenders for outsourced service con... (more story)

Trial of a Lipscomb University basketball player’s US antitrust claims against the National Collegiate Athletic Association has been pushed back nearly a year from March 2027 to February 8, 2028, a federal jud... (more story)

OpenAI, Adobe and other tech groups have urged the Unified Patent Court to revoke a digital-file patent held by French startup KeeeX. Meanwhile, KeeeX has accused its opponents of infringement through content-... (more story)

Universal Music argued at the EU’s top court that Cloudflare should be held liable for copyright infringement because its content delivery services helped a piracy website make unauthorized music downloads ava... (more story)

Sanrio, the Japanese company behind Hello Kitty, has defeated an animation studio’s bid to stop sales of merchandise featuring Kuromi, one of its most popular characters, after a Tokyo court found that the stu... (more story)

MLex Summary: US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said 14 economies have reached an agreement on a commitment to address global excess capacity, including representatives of the US, Argentina, Australia, Ca... (more story)

MLex Summary: International Energy Agency countries backed accelerating oil stock releases pledged in March and prioritizing diesel stocks where possible, the agency said Wednesday. About 325 million barrels h... (more story)

MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department has determined Indian producers of chromium trioxide received countervailable subsidies at rates of 29.35 percent for Vishnu Chemicals and all other producers. The depa... (more story)

MLex Summary: Jonathan Spalletta, of Maryland, was found guilty of computer fraud and money laundering in connection with his hacks of the decentralized cryptocurrency exchange Uranium Finance, the US Departme... (more story)

A European Parliament committee is expected to present its joint draft report on the Cloud and AI Development Act in December, with a vote planned for mid-March, according to a provisional timetable seen by ML... (more story)

France's failure to implement new EU media merger rules has created a regulatory gap that affects deals, according to a new report by press freedom organisations. It says the new safeguards cannot yet be effec... (more story)