GC Collective By Ben Daniels The GC Collective collection offers insight and comment for General Counsels (GCs) and in-house legal teams.
FinTech By Tim Ryan What is a Collection? A Collection is a selection of features, articles, comments and opinions on any given theme or topic. It allows you to stay up-to-date with what interests you most, by collecting everything into useful packages. A Collection…
Closing the Digital Gap By Tim Ryan Tim Ryan, Partner and Head of TMT at international law firm DAC Beachcroft considers how the real estate sector can make the digital leap to transform business performance, and examines the associated legal risks. This article first appeared in…
Beauty and the Brand: Drafting contracts for the commercial use of someone's likeness By Kelsey Farish Following a brief introduction to the contractual ecosystem, the piece provides commentary on how to approach drafting provisions which concern the following: purpose, use and duration, consideration and payments in kind, modifications and physical…
Digital Services and the Digital Services Act - Where Are We Now? By Isabella McMeechan The DSA package covers both digital services and competition law. Here, we focus on the former, with a brief summary of where things stand on the digital services aspect of the DSA, and a commentary on increasing platforms’ monitoring and take down…
No cookies? No worries! A new golden age for #adtech? By Tim Ryan Data protection regulations (primarily contained in the GDPR, as everyone will know…) have been making it harder for companies to collect and store users’ personal information without transparency and robust data security standards and policies in…
Is someone stealing your Instagram posts? 8 Things to Know about Copyright Infringement on Social Media By Kelsey Farish Putting photos or other forms of creative content on social media is a key part of gaining exposure and growing one’s business. However, sharing work online also puts it at risk of being used in ways you did not consent to. Here are just a few…
The Accelerated Application of PropTech By Tim Ryan A more systemic application of PropTech will emerge as a key driver of change, supercharged by COVID-19. Our appreciation of well-being, convenience, efficiency and value could be re-imagined. There is caution about over-correcting, as the virus…
The legal implications and challenges of deepfakes By Kelsey Farish Intellectual Property analysis: Kelsey Farish, solicitor specialising in technology at DAC Beachcroft, considers the issue of ‘deepfakes’, its legal implications and the challenges it poses to intellectual property rights. She also considers how UK…
Collaboration in the FinTech Community By Alan Pratt The Whitecap Bristol and Bath FinTech Ecosystem report earlier in 2020 highlighted the success of the sector in the region. One of the perhaps more unexpected findings in the report was that the dynamism of the fintech sector was due to the strength…
US copyright enters the social media age By Kelsey Farish New US Copyright Office rules will make it easier for social media creators and bloggers to protect their work. But is the US still behind the times? Kelsey Farish of DAC Beachcroft reports.
Flexible workplaces – the COVID-19 effect By Dominic Fagan In December last year we published an article entitled “Flexible workplaces – The PropTech effect” which discussed how technology is driving changes in the way we work and the impact this is having on the real estate market. At the time of writing…