Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation

China's top court has highlighted a case in which a judge said a “pay-when-paid” clause shifting third-party payment risk from a large company to a smaller supplier was not legally binding. The case is among 1... (more story)

Google wants to overturn €890 million in fines and has filed two appeals to EU judges against decisions that said the company had broken digital markets laws. In July, the European Commission said Google hadn’... (more story)

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)

Japanese cosmetics company Kao faces a smaller rival’s planned trademark action to halt a new skincare line it has promoted with a celebrity campaign and advertising across four Japanese cities to broaden its customer base.

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft told Australian lawmakers that copyright restrictions or legal uncertainty pose barriers to training AI models locally. The government is working on copyright legislatio... (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)

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)

China’s internet regulator has launched a two-month nationwide campaign targeting fabricated personas in short videos, including impersonation using artificial intelligence, as it steps up scrutiny of deceptiv... (more story)

MLex Summary: Meta Platforms' Instagram and Facebook remain classified as high-risk platforms under Indonesia's online child-protection rules despite introducing Teen Account safety features, Communications an... (more story)

New York City residents and organizations may soon have expanded authority to sue for unfair business practices — which has been particularly successful against tech companies this year — under a proposal spea... (more story)