Rights to cartoon/fictional characters may exist under trademark law as well as under copyright law.

The data controller determined that the cybercriminals had seized the authorized user passwords of its system and prevented its employees from accessing the system.

The end of the Brexit transition period does not signal the end of EU law in the UK.

In this episode of Employment and Benefits Unpacked, Mayer Brown employment lawyers Pauline Stadler (Frankfurt) and Marine Hamon (Paris) explore the critical labor law considerations that arise in cross-border...

New obligations for companies to conduct risk assessments and take remedial actions. In his article for Labor Law Magazine, Dr. Hagen Köckeritz explains the obligations and...

On March 26, 2021, the Mexican House of Representatives published in the Parliamentary Gazette an initiative to amend certain provisions of the Hydrocarbons Law...

The electricity industry in Mexico is under stress. The President of Mexico has proposed amendments to the Electricity Industry Law that could result in the undoing of the energy...

Article 201 of the UAE Bankruptcy Law also entitles a court to order imprisonment in certain circumstances, including where there has been a failure to share information with a bankruptcy trustee.

As we enter 2025, the primary and secondary markets for consumer and small business financial assets remain robust.

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As generative AI transforms the way businesses operate, understanding copyright risks has never been more critical. In this episode, host Julian Dibbell sits down with Rich Assmus and Brian Nolan...

On January 16, 2024, Governor Philip D. Murphy signed into law the New Jersey Data Privacy Act (the "Privacy Act"), which goes into effect on January 15, 2025.

The primary piece of legislation, the Employment Ordinance (the "EO"), prescribes certain basic rights and protection for most employees.

In late December 2020, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed S.B. 5470 into law, which will impose a range of Truth in Lending Act-like disclosure requirements on providers of commercial financing

The Forestry Code provides for the protection of native vegetation, Permanent Preservation Areas ("APP") and legal reserve areas from exploitation.

Law No. 13.853/2019 altering the Brazilian Data Protection Law was published in the Federal Official Gazette on July 9, 2019, implementing the changes from Provisionary Measure No. 869/2018, which was sanctioned by former president Michel Temer in late 2018.

A common law marriage is an informal relationship that does not require the legal form of a statutory marriage.

On 2nd November 2012, President Thein Sein signed into law the long-awaited new Foreign Investment Law.

Public employers, including state and local government entities, are covered by a separate paid vaccine leave law.

As proxy season kicks off, companies should be mindful of their disclosure obligations regarding related-person transactions, especially those involving immediate family members of executive officers and directors.