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As the EU AI Act's Article 50 transparency obligations approach their 2 August 2026 enforcement date, organizations face critical requirements to disclose AI interactions, label deepfakes, and mark synthetic content. This session examines the practical implications of these transparency mandates, drawing on the European Commission's recently published Guidelines and Code of Practice to help stakeholders prepare for compliance.

Following recent legislative developments in Australia, which introduced a ban on social media access for users under the age of sixteen from December 2025...

UEFA, the governing body of football in Europe, has secured an order from the Irish High Court requiring several internet service providers (ISPs) to block the illegal live streaming of matches for...

Minister for Communications Patrick O'Donovan recently met with industry figures in the aftermath of Storm Éowyn, the most damaging to services in recorded history...

The Department of Communication, Energy and Natural Resources held a public consultation concerning draft Guidelines on Media Mergers.

In episode one our host Craig Sowman, Partner and head of the Sports and Entertainment Group, is joined by colleagues, Derek Hegarty, Partner and Patrick Murphy, Senior Associate.

The Children (Amendment) Act 2020 ("the Act") was signed into law earlier this month. It comes after parents of child murder victims and media organisations had campaigned to change the law...

The recent decision of the Court of Appeal in DPP and E.C. and Media Outlets [2020] IECA 292 highlights a section of the Children Act, 2001 which urgently needs legislative amendment to cure...

New Court Rules relating to the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court were introduced on 1 August 2018 which allow the media access to documents on court files where access...

We have recently seen completion of the transfer of responsibility for broadcasting regulation from the former Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment to the newly formed Department of Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, ...

Ireland is one of nineteen Member States to face legal action for failure to transpose EU legislation within the required timeframe.

Rights holders are using increasingly novel methods to protect their copyright from the scourge of global internet piracy.

This Sunday, 28 September, Dublin will make history as it hosts Ireland's first-ever regular season National Football League (NFL) game in Croke Park...

A recent High Court claim in England & Wales has placed risk-to-life evidence on a collision course with investigative journalism, raising fundamental questions about when psychiatric evidence of self-harm risk can justify permanently restraining media publication. The case, which involves an unnamed claimant seeking to prevent two major news outlets from publishing investigated allegations, will test whether Article 2 ECHR rights can override Article 10 freedom of expression in the context of serious publi

The Digital Services Bill ("DSB"), which sets out how supervision and enforcement of intermediary services under the Digital Services Act ("DSA") will be affected in Ireland...

Since 25 May 2018, two of the most hotly debated questions have been: (1) when can we expect the newly-strengthened and upgraded powers of data protection authorities across Europe to be kicked...

Further to our recent article on the new rules for broadcasters under the revised Audiovisual Media Service Directive (the "AVMSD"), the Minister for Communications