Generated with OpenAI’s DALL-E 3 model based on a prompt corresponding to the wording of Recital 106 AI Act Introduction The interaction between the AI Act (Regulation 2024/1689) and the exceptions for text and data mining (TDM) in the CDSM Directive is one of the most important topics in EU copyright law today. One particularly…
Last week, as Concordia students staged a “strike” to protest the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, video captured someone giving a Nazi salute to nearby Jewish students while repeatedly declaring the “final solution is coming your way.” Antisemitism has become far too common, but this incident, which had unmistakable Holocaust echoes, still had the capacity…
Over at his indispensable blog Public Law for Everyone, Mark Elliott writes about an online petition to the UK Parliament which calls for a new general election. The stated reason for this demand is that the petition’s signatories “believe that the current Labour Government have gone back on the promises they laid out in the lead…
On March 6, 2018, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) delivered its (in)famous Achmea judgment (Case C-284/16), which subsequently became synonymous with the demise of investor-state arbitration in bilateral investment treaties between Member States of the European Union (“intra-EU BITs”). In this decision, the CJEU concluded that investor-state arbitration clauses in intra-EU…
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Originally posted 2011-09-28 10:33:30. Republished by Blog Post Promoter The Internet Cases blog comes through again, reporting on this decision, holding that the forum selection clause in AOL’s terms of service does not trump the State of Washington’s consumer fraud law. I litigated a similar issue in a case called Kubis & Perszyk., Inc….
In Ontario, a big change to family law took effect on March 1, 2021. The old terms “custody” and “access” have been replaced with new terms: parenting time and decision-making responsibility. These changes aim to make the language around child custody less contentious, and more focused on what’s best for children, while encouraging parents to…
On November 15, 2024, approximately 50,000 Canada Post workers began a nationwide strike after more than a year of negotiating between the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) and their employer. This strike has halted most mail and parcel services nationwide, with exceptions for government benefit payments (including the Canada Pension Plan and Child Tax…
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The revised directive on the protection of the environment through criminal law entered into force on 21 May 2024 in the European Union (EU), placing its member states under a two-year transposition obligation. It establishes minimum rules with regard to the definition of criminal offences, penalties, prevention and enforcement measures in order to protect the…
The coronavirus crisis has heightened both the need for reliable information and existing concerns about the growth of misinformation and the financial weakening of traditional media. At the same time, Congress and other policymakers are considering changes to our basic laws about publication and distribution of information on the Internet. Now is a good time…
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Welcome to another chapter in the ever-entertaining saga of Florida insurance regulation—where the unexpected is expected, and reality sometimes reads like satire. The latest? Florida’s insurance regulators are serving subpoenas on a critic who dared to spotlight glaring issues in the insurance industry. Yes, you read that right. Instead of addressing the industry’s woes, they’ve…
