Recent decisions by courts and regulatorss on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean proved costly for Google parent Alphabet, but the outcome could have been a lot worse. 
First, in a mixed ruling, a US District Court found that Alphabet's division Google, the group's biggest money maker, will have to share online data with competitors but, on the bright side, will not have to divest from its search engine Chrome. 
Then, a federal court in San Francisco determined that Google...

A coalition of 35 creative and cultural organisations across Latin America have launched JusticIA, an initiative calling on policymakers "to protect and preserve the exclusive intellectual property rights of authors, artists, producers and publishers." The initiative was triggered by "rapid advances in generative artificial intelligence" that are transforming the creative landscape.  

JusticIA's inaugural declaration states, "Robust and full exclusive rights are the only way to ensure that ri...

The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) has launched a request for comments as part of the annual 2025 Review of Notorious Markets for Counterfeiting and Piracy (known as the Notorious Markets List). 
The USTR is seeking to identify online and physical markets to be considered for inclusion in the Notorious Markets List that reportedly "engage in or facilitate substantial copyright piracy or trademark counterfeiting."
Since 2006, USTR identified notorious markets in the annua...