The Advocate General (‘AG’) has issued an interim opinion in the case of Football Dataco and others v Sportradar GmbH and others.

On 1 February 2012 the European Commission (the "Commission") announced its decision to prohibit the merger between Deutsche Bӧrse and NYSE Euronext.

The discovery earlier in the year that a significant proportion of Olympic tickets ear-marked for corporate hospitality remained unsold was revealed with typical outraged zeal by certain sections of the British press.

Until recently, competition law issues in outsourcing projects were very much on the periphery. That may no longer be the case as the European Commission now tells us that the EU Merger Regulation can apply to outsourcing deals

Increasing numbers of sports clubs and bodies are using the expertise of third party specialists, be it for websites, apps, social networks or gaming platforms to interact with their fans domestically and internationally.

The past few days have seen a number of significant indications of the new and growing importance of online advertising. In the first place, research from the Internet Advertising Bureau revealed that the money spent on UK internet advertising last year topped 10% of the total advertising spend across all media for the first time, with a figure of around GBP£2bn in total expenditure.

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) recently published a ‘Good Practice Note’ on the collection of personal information using websites1. This provides some practical guidance which will be relevant to any business that collects or processes personal data via its website.

Although all Open Source Software ("OSS") licences guarantee certain fundamental freedoms to licensees, there is a vast amount of variation between them. When reviewing the terms of any particular licence, one consideration is whether it will constitute a bare licence or a contractual licence.

The seasons may change, but employment law continues to get lots of column inches, with the Government announcing more proposals for reforms.

By contrast to some of our more detailed briefings on the Companies Act 2006 (the “2006 Act”), this note aims to provide a general overview of some of the ways in which the Act has made, or will make, the everyday administration of private companies in the UK simpler.

The work permit system (along with 82 other routes to work or study in the UK) will be replaced from autumn 2008 with a new 5 tier points based immigration system.

From 1 October 2008, two key provisions of the Companies Act 2006 (the "2006 Act") come into force which will make private acquisitions and re-organisations in the UK simpler.

The on-going debate between the entertainment industries and Internet Service Providers (“ISPs”) centring round the extent to which ISPs should be liable for illegal activities occurring over their networks has recently intensified following the release of a strategy paper entitled “Creative Britain: New Talents for the New Economy” (the “Strategy Paper”) by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport.

The European Commission adopted on 16 December 2010 the long awaited revised version of its vision for creating interoperable, pan-European public services in the form of its Communication "Towards interoperability for European Public Services"

The UK patent box rules, which come into force next April, have been introduced in the wake of certain high-profile corporate emigrations from the UK to jurisdictions with more appealing IP tax regimes

As set out in the London 2012 and the protection of exclusive rights note, the laws implemented for the London Olympic Games are the most stringent ever introduced by a host country and involve some concepts never previously covered by Olympic legislation.