The threat, seeking and enforcement of injunctions, i.e. court decisions whereby a party is ordered to desist from an infringement of an intellectual property right, have recently come under the spotlights of courts and regulatory authorities on both sides of the Atlantic. The main purpose of...

In an environment where populism has the potential to drive regulation and where daily Internet use means dealing with a very few, very big, businesses, the concept of decentralisation is attractive. We are now at a stage where technology-powered decentralisation has the potential to have...

Improved sharing of financial data promises to be beneficial in terms of increased competition, better advice, availability of innovative products and services, and inclusiveness. However, recent experience with the implementation of open banking in the EU has shown that consumers may also run...

Recent copyright cases on both sides of the Atlantic focused on important interoperability issues. While the decision by the Court of Justice of the European Union in SAS Institute, Inc. v. World Programming Ltd. assessed data formats under the EU Software Directive, the ruling by the Northern...

Microsoft's claim that it had an objective justification for its refusal to supply interoperability information covered by intellectual property rights was dismissed by the EU Commission. To substantiate this, the Commission applied a newly framed incentives balance test and concluded that the...

The interlibrary loan service has a long and commendable history, based on the idea that documents should be accessible to a patron independent from the latter's location. However, when interlibrary loan started developing into the supply of a surrogate copy (a photocopy) of the requested...