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Europe/Germany: Right to Bring Collective Action for Violations of Information Obligations Under GDPR

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Summary - In its judgement of 11 July 2024 (C-757/22), the European Court of Justice (‘ECJ’) ruled that the violation of a controller’s information obligations under Art. 12 and 13 GDPR, can be subject to a representative...more

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UK Online Safety Act Becomes Law: What To Expect Next

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Last week, the UK’s Online Safety Bill received royal assent and became law. With this development, Ofcom, the regulator for the new Online Safety Act (the Act or OSA), has published a roadmap to explain how the Act will be...more

McDermott Will & Emery

CMA Blocks Microsoft’s Acquisition of Activision Blizzard

On April 26, 2023, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) blocked what would otherwise have been the largest deal in the gaming industry to date. The decision highlights several important trends, such as: - In dynamic...more

Hogan Lovells

Online gaming regulatory practice in France - Part 1: T&C of video game digital distribution stores

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The online gaming sector is characterized by various regulatory frameworks, that may or may not overlap depending on the type of games and means of distribution. There are a number of stakeholders on the value chain...more

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Spain leads the race on regulating loot boxes in the EU

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The Spanish government published last week the pre-draft bill of law on randomized reward mechanisms associated with interactive software products for entertainment (a subtle and technical way of referring to loot boxes in...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

European Digital Compliance: Key Digital Regulation & Compliance Developments - April 2022

To help organisations stay on top of the main developments in European digital compliance, Morrison & Foerster’s European Digital Regulatory Compliance team reports on some of the main European digital regulatory and...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Antitrust: Into the Metaverse

Are antitrust concerns a built-in feature of the Metaverse? In two popular science-fiction novels, Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash and Ernest Cline's Ready Player One, the Metaverse is run by single companies, or "monopolists,"...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Click Yes To Accept: Fairness And Transparency In Consumer Contracts In Europe

Companies contracting with consumers have to take care to ensure their agreement terms are enforceable. In one of the first post-Brexit decisions on issues in an online consumer contract, a UK court recently showed that...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Electronic Gaming Legal Newsletter - December 2020

Games vary in difficulty from the first levels of Candy Crush to the final bosses of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. They vary in visual fidelity from the ASCII characters of Dwarf Fortress to the high-detail, motion-capture shown...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 12.13.2019 | Top Story: US Announces Phase One Trade Agreement With China, But No Confirmation From Chinese

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The US and China have reportedly reached an initial agreement on the “final terms of a phase one trade deal, moving both countries closer to signing a pact that” the White House originally announced in October and averting...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Top European Court Rules Pre-Checked Cookie Consent Boxes Invalid

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Under the ePrivacy Directive, in conjunction with the GDPR, the use of nonessential cookies (e.g., advertising and analytics) requires an affirmative, opt-in consent. Pre-ticked check boxes and other defaults that do not...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Making Sense of EU Cookie Law in the Wake of CJEU’s Planet49 Ruling

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The perplexing question of what U.S. companies must do to comply with EU “cookie” law became slightly more clear with the recent decision of the European Court of Justice (CJEU) in Planet49 GmbH, but numerous questions still...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

EU Objects to Game Companies Geo-blocking Video Games

The European Commission has informed various game companies (platforms and publishers) of its preliminary view that the companies prevented consumers from purchasing video games cross-border from other Member States, in...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Netherlands Declares Certain Loot Boxes Gambling; Warns of Coming Enforcements

As we have previously reported, the subject of loot boxes has received increasing scrutiny around the world. In one of the most recent pronouncements, the Dutch Gambling Authority (the “Authority”) declared the loot box...more

Dickinson Wright

Gaming & Hospitality Legal News: Volume 11, Number 4

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Virtually every significant gaming operator in the United States has some form of “free to play” online casino offering. Because no purchase is necessary to play (no consideration) and no valuable prizes are offered (i.e.,...more

K&L Gates LLP

Italian Game Agency to Issue New Rules for Betting on Virtual Events

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The Italian Game Agency is issuing new rules for betting on virtual events. Draft of a new decree (the “Decree”) was notified to the European Commission on March 31, 2016. The EC will verify that the Decree complies with...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Advertising Law - October 2015 #3

With EU Safe Harbor Invalidated, Companies Ask: What Now? - What happens now?: That is the question that businesses across the country are asking after the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) threw out the...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

EU Investigating Geo-Blocking of Online Video Games

On May 6, 2015, the European Competition Commission released a new Digital Single Market Plan, and simultaneously launched a broad antitrust investigation into e-commerce. The DSM plan, consisting of sixteen proposals, seeks...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media

Playing Fair? UK’s OFT Investigates Online and App-Based Games

On April 12, 2013, the UK’s Office of Fair Trading (OFT), the UK regulator for consumer affairs and competition, announced that it was launching an investigation into children’s web- and app-based games. In particular, the...more

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New European Consumer Agenda to be Observed and Adopted by Businesses

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The European Commission’s new European Consumer Agenda lays out a strategic plan for EU consumer policy until 2014. The Agenda identifies key measures to maximise consumer participation and trust in the Single European...more

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