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Southeast Asia Update: Generative AI and Copyright: How Businesses Can Mitigate Legal Risks
As in many countries around the world, IP laws in Southeast Asia do not currently specify whether works generated by artificial intelligence (AI) are protected by copyright, and there is...
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Taiwan Merger Control: When and How Do You Have to File?
INTRODUCTION Mergers happen in good economic times and bad. In good times, larger companies flush with cash can go shopping for complementary startups and SMEs that need the investment; in...
read moreGermany Update: A small step for the commercial register, but a big step for companies: It can also (sometimes) be done electronically.
According to a recent decision of the Court of Appeal of 30 June 2022 (file number: 22 W 36/22), the withdrawal of a managing director from a GmbH can be proven under...
read moreSwitzerland Update: Management Transactions – Overview and Recent Changes
On 1 July 2005, the Regulation of Management Transactions ("MT"), also known as Directors' Dealings, was incorporated into the Listing Rules ("KR") of the SIX Swiss Exchange ("SIX"). In addition to...
read moreSaudi Arabia Passes New Amendments to the Personal Data Protection Law
Saudi Arabia has taken a momentous stride towards safeguarding individual privacy by passing the new amendments to the Personal Data Protection Law (“PDPL”). In a rapidly evolving digital landscape, privacy...
read moreSoutheast Asia Update: The Dangers of Employee Recruitment on Autopilot: AI and Discriminatory Hiring Decisions
Instead of the typical dystopian scene of flames, wastelands of shattered buildings, and robotic overlords policing the remaining humans, our actual dystopian future may be a workplace filled only with...
read moreUK Update: Challenging harassment in the workplace: The stakes for employers and the future of the Worker Protection Bill
How might employers become liable for harassment by third parties and face increased compensation for sexual harassment under proposed legislation? Third party harassment The House of Lords is currently considering...
read moreSwitzerland Update: Federal Act on Combating Abusive Bankruptcy
In this blog article, we present the most important legal amendments in relation to the newly adopted Federal Act on Combating Abusive Bankruptcy. In March 2022, the Swiss Parliament adopted...
read moreFrance Update: Does the presumption of resignation following abandonment of post really deprive the employer of making a dismissal?
Questioning the possibility for an employer to dismiss an employee for abandonment of position seems incongruous, yet this is the question that must now be asked following the publication: Decree No. 2023-275...
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