Twitter boss Elon Musk has threatened to sue Microsoft as he accused the technology giant of using data from his social media company without permission. “They trained illegally using Twitter data. Lawsuit time,” the multi-billionaire said in a tweet. Mr Musk was responding to Microsoft’s plan to remove Twitter from its corporate advertising platform. He […]
Tesco may have to stop using a blue and yellow logo to promote its Clubcard loyalty scheme after the High Court ruled that it had infringed the trademark of Lidl, the German discounter. Judge Joanna Smith said in a written ruling that Britain’s biggest grocer had taken unfair advantage of its rival’s “distinctive reputation” for […]
Matt Hancock’s leaked Whatsapps about the Covid-19 pandemic are not a subject for a data breach investigation “at this stage”, a top regulator has said. Journalist Isabel Oakeshott, who worked with former health secretary Hancock on his book, Pandemic Diaries, handed over thousands of Whatsapp messages to the Telegraph. The paper published claims including that […]
An artist who made and sold digital images of Birkin handbags covered in fur violated trademark rights, a Manhattan court has concluded. The fashion giant Hermes, which owns the luxury brand, sued Mason Rothschild after he created non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, based on the famous bags. Hermes said consumers would believe the products were officially […]
With the increased threat of industrial strike action looming across the UK, we consider whether a force majeure clause can strike the right chord during such action. As we emerged from the pandemic, many businesses had hoped to move forward and leave the struggles and difficulties of the pandemic behind. However, industrial strike action has […]
With its colourful numbers and hands helpfully labelled minute and hour, a children’s learning clock from Oyster & Pop, a family firm in Devon, is sold online for about £20. A Rolex Oyster watch, on the other hand, calls itself a “superlative chronometer” and costs nearer £5,000. Rolex is demanding that the smaller company change […]
A catalogue retailer has been issued with a huge fine for using customers’ shopping habits to try to predict their health problems and then bombarding them with aggressive calls to sell related medical products. The Information Commissioner’s Office levied a £1.35 million penalty against Easylife for the abuse of customers’ data and further £130,000 for […]
Ed Sheeran has found himself at the centre of a second copyright lawsuit for his hit ‘Thinking Out Loud’ just six months after he was cleared for copying ‘Shape of You’ back in April. The claim by investment banker David Pullman was made back in 2018, who is seeking £90million in damages after the artist […]
Lawyers and litigation funders have hit back at EU plans to regulate the third-party litigation financing industry in claiming new rules could limit access to justice. The clashes come after the EU parliament on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly in favour of adopting a report by German MEP Axel Voss calling for new regulation of Europe’s litigation […]
Instagram owner Meta has been fined €405m (£349m) by the Irish data watchdog for letting teenagers set up accounts that publicly displayed their phone numbers and email addresses. The Data Protection Commission confirmed the penalty after a two-year investigation into potential breaches of the European Union’s general data protection regulation (GDPR). Instagram had allowed users […]