Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation

MLex Summary: A panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has affirmed a summary judgment order favoring Thomson Reuters in its infringement case against Ross Intelligence over copyrights associat... (more story)

Gail Slater, former assistant attorney general at the US Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, is heading to the law firm White & Case as a partner in the Washington, DC, office, MLex has learned.  Slate... (more story)

US crabbers’ claims against Da Yang Seafood survived a motion to dismiss as a federal judge found that the plaintiffs had provided additional evidence that the company collaborated with competitors to fix prices.

In a press conference marking the release of the 19th edition of the Global Innovation Index (GII), officials from the World Intellectual Property Organization on Tuesday appeared cautiously optimistic about a... (more story)

MLex Summary: The presentation of the European Product Act, a new law which aims to modernize the EU's product safety laws, has been postponed from Oct. 6 until later this year, the office of EU industry chief... (more story)

The EU is weighing new copyright rules for generative AI, including standardized opt-outs, disclosure duties, licensing tools and possible payment rights for creators, alongside tougher measures on live-event ... (more story)

The European Commission is considering delaying EU methane import reporting requirements by one year, Energy Commissioner Dan Jørgensen said Tuesday. Any postponement would be conditional on member states usin... (more story)

MLex Summary: EU oil supplies remain stable despite high diesel and jet fuel prices and tight global markets, with European refineries running near maximum capacity, interested parties said on Tuesday. Commerc... (more story)

MLex Summary: The European Commission has opened a one-month call for feedback on its plan for a new regulation to address the risk that a high level of strategic dependencies on a single supplier country coul... (more story)

MLex Summary: Meta has two weeks to change the design and default settings of its camera glasses or face a lawsuit, Dutch consumer group Consumentenbond said. The group alleges that the glasses can film bystan... (more story)

Confidence in the UK’s online safety regulator Ofcom is "not particularly high," online safety minister Ian Murray said at a Labour Party conference event. He acknowledged the complexity of Ofcom’s duties but ... (more story)

MLex Summary: Social media platforms should come under speedier enforcement of online safety rules over scams, EU officials have been urged. In a joint statement, the European Consumer Organization, known as B... (more story)