On 10 March, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) will hold the first public hearing in the ‘Like Company v. Google Ireland’ case. In brief, the case was brought by a Hungarian news publisher, which claims that the Gemini AI chatbot infringed its rights by allegedly copying news articles without permission. 

Daniel Friedlaender · March 9, 2026

For the past few years, European and global businesses have faced significant legal uncertainty about their data transfers. In 2020, […]

Alvaro Marañon and Alexandre Roure · November 3, 2022

For the second time in five years, a Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruling on international data […]

Keir Lamont and Alex Roure · July 21, 2020

The transfer of data is an intricate part of our digitised economy and society. But in Europe, there are only […]

Alex Roure · July 15, 2019

The European Commission will soon publish new rules aimed at improving law enforcement access to “digital evidence” held by online […]

Alex Roure · April 16, 2018

The creation of a Digital Single Market (DSM) has rightly been set as a policy priority by European policymakers. But […]

Jakob Kucharczyk · April 5, 2018

The Court of Justice of the European Union (‘CJEU’ or ‘the Court’) recently issued its decision in Case C-610/15, Stichting […]

Maud Sacquet · October 26, 2017

In a decision issued today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed the district court’s ruling in […]

Jonathan Band · October 24, 2017

Many observers, including me, predicted that the 2014 decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (“CAFC”) […]

Jonathan Band · January 9, 2017

Is uberPOP a transport service? Are Airbnb or booking.com hotel operators? Is Skype a telecoms service? The answer to these three questions is: no, […]

James Waterworth · November 25, 2016