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Feb 10, 2026
This article analyses the Ninth Circuit’s July 31 2025 decision in Epic v Google and the Ninth Circuit’s willingness to bless forward-looking remedies in the regulation of Big Tech.
Marilu Capparelli is one of the managing directors of the EMEA Google Legal Department, she leads an international team of lawyers located in different countries and is also leading a copyright litigation strategy area in EU. Marilu is an Italian qualified lawyer with experience in major international law firms, at the Court of Justice of the European Union and as an in-house counsel. Before joining Google, she was Head of Legal and Government Affairs at eBay Inc, Skype and Paypal.
Annual IBA Employment and Diversity Law Conference 2024
Dec 11, 2020
In early October, tech giant Google announced it had set aside over $1bn to pay media outlets to display curated content on its news apps, initially as part of a three-year programme. Google will pay publishers it chooses on a market-by-market basis to provide blurbs for the company’s Google News Showcase app (‘Showcase’) and to give readers free access to certain paywalled articles.
Also, it will address how sports events´ owners and producers are dealing with “active” fans who want to choose what, when and how to watch and how much the new players - Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google, Tik Tok, Kwai and other digital media – are willing to pay for sports content and how will their payback be.
IBA Annual Conference Miami 2022
President Xi’s China is now a major player at the United Nations, supporting peacekeeping operations and emphasising global cooperation to protect human rights. But there are fears that China’s more active role could erode multilateral intervention and even lead to the demise of international human rights laws.
Second, many jurisdictions have moved to force digital platforms like Google and Facebook to compensate news organisations for the use of their content.
IBA Annual Conference Miami 2022
Feb 04, 2021
The US Department of Justice has launched an antitrust suit against Google, alleging the tech giant used its size to unlawfully maintain its position in online search and advertising. Global Insight assesses the action in the context of previous cases.
Drawing on her leadership at Google Cloud Magda Dziewguć will highlight why Poland has emerged as a premier European hub for technological competence and digital transformation.
Annual IBA Employment and Diversity Law Conference 2026
May 20, 2025
An insightful discussion with Imbi Jürgen
How do AWS, Google, and Microsoft deal with issues like choice of law and forum, liability, service levels, termination, and more?
IBA Annual Conference Miami 2022
May 22, 2025
The International Bar Association (IBA) Legal Policy & Research Unit (LPRU) has released the latest instalment of its Inspirational Legal Women podcast series, featuring Imbi Jürgen, the Vice-President of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) and…
Welcome to your very own IBA Festival, where nature moves indoors and the atmosphere is pure magic. Wander through our festival grounds, savour street-food favourites, and take a moment to connect, unwind and soak up the elegant festival vibe. Then when the music calls, step into the Disco Forest and let the rhythm take over!
Guests should use the Postbyn entrance to the Villa Copenhagen.
IBA Annual Conference Copenhagen 2026
Jan 12, 2024
On the afternoon of Thursday 2 November 2023, at the IBA Annual Conference in Paris, the European Regional Forum lead the organisation of the automotive session titled ‘The European automotive and mobility service industry: transformation and revolution’. Contrary to its title the panellists came from different areas of the world, including Europe, India, Mexico and South Korea. During the session, panellists discussed issues relating to data privacy, developments concerning autonomous vehicles, the future of electric vehicles and more.
Twitter announced in late October it was banning all political advertising, saying the reach of such messages ‘should be earned, not bought’. Google too has opted to disallow political advertisers from targeting voters based on their affiliation and to tighten its ban on ‘demonstrably false claims’.
Facebook meanwhile is facing increasingly fierce criticism for refusing to follow suit, particularly given the UK’s upcoming general election on 12 December.
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Jan 28, 2026
In November 2025, the Supreme Court of India closed one of India’s most complex and long-running bank fraud matters involving the Sterling Biotech group. This article focuses on what the judgment means practically for boards and senior management when dealing with large, multi-agency financial disputes.
May 29, 2025
Many lawyers feel uncomfortable with the word ‘sales’. The idea of pitching, persuading or promoting can feel unnatural. And it’s no wonder – multiple studies show that salespeople are widely perceived as untrustworthy, and lawyers aren’t rated much higher. The encouraging part, though, is that great lawyers already apply the core principles of good sales. The real shift is in mindset: moving from ‘selling’ to consultative relationship-building – something most great lawyers are already doing when supporting their clients.
Dec 15, 2020
This session examines what has led to a crisis in attorney wellbeing and launches the IBA Presidential Taskforce, which aims to help tackle the root causes. During the session, Steven Richman of Clark Hill, Deborah Enix-Ross of Debevoise & Plimpton and Sara Carnegie, Director of the IBA Legal Policy and Research Unit, posed the questions explored by the panel.
Apr 23, 2025
Arriving in Budapest, I was excited to join my first IBA European Regional Forum (ERF) retreat as a council member. Bringing together over 50 officers, council members and Advisory Board members, this was a great (and slightly daunting!) opportunity to immerse myself in the ERF and find out more about their current and upcoming projects.
Amid the tensions between leading digital platforms and traditional news businesses, the Australian government has produced a novel proposal to use competition law to require designated digital platforms – initially Google and Facebook – to compensate news media businesses for news content. This article explains the origins of the proposed News Media Bargaining Code and developments after the proposal, including reactions from digital platforms.
Apr 07, 2026
This article examines class actions in Australia alleging anti-competitive conduct in the ad tech sector. Drawing on the findings of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s inquiries, the article analyses the claims under Australian competition law and considers the broader implications for proposed sector-specific digital services regulation.
Dec 09, 2022
This article provides a historical perspective on some of the main European Union abuse of dominance cases in the hi-tech sector from this century. It then seeks to draw lessons from those cases about where the law in the EU stands on abuse of dominance on a number of key issues, as well as what unanswered questions remain for the future, both as regards case enforcement itself and the interplay between that and regulation. The next section sets the scene by outlining the policy context and some of the key issues at stake, both in terms of antitrust’s analytical framework, and its role and very purpose. Then, the article provides an overview of a number of the main EU abuse of dominance cases in the hi-tech sector from this century, and in light of those, a description of where we stand and where more clarification may come in the future. The article concludes by placing the debate in the broader policy context of the role and effectiveness of antitrust and its interplay with regulation.
Mar 29, 2021
Journalism has been reshaped and – in the eyes of some – imperilled by the power of the tech giants in today’s world. Global Insight assesses how journalism can continue to perform its vital role in society as publishers, lawmakers, tech companies and regulators seek to mould its future.
Apr 23, 2025
We were happy to see 110 participants in Munich on 27 March, in the unique location of Upside East for a day of discussions concerning the very challenging times that the automotive industry is now facing. Attendees had a chance to ease into the conference at the welcome cocktail which took place the evening before and it was good to see many familiar faces showing that the conference is becoming a familiar item on the IBA calendar.
Jul 17, 2025
The past few years have seen the emergence of section 19a of the Act against Restraints of Competition as a central instrument for Germany’s intervention in digital markets, with the German Federal Supreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof or BGH) upholding the German Federal Cartel Office’s (Bundeskartellamt) decisions. This national regime complements the harmonised European Union-wide regime introduced by the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The Bundeskartellamt remains at the forefront of digital platform regulation in Europe, serving as both an enforcer and a testing ground for innovative approaches. This article provides an overview of the evolving regulatory landscape, the interplay between German and EU law and recent enforcement actions against major digital platforms.
The article describes and assesses the abuse of dominance investigations carried out by the Brazilian competition authorities in the digital sector. With nine cases already decided and six ongoing probes as of July 2019, there is a clear concern about false positives and avoidance of severe intervention, and no precise guidance on how companies should behave. The research also reveals interesting findings such as the importance of third parties, areas of concern and the inexistence of convictions.
Jan 19, 2024
The majority of class action lawsuits in privacy and data protection in the United Kingdom have not succeeded. This may appear surprising, given the breadth of data rights found in the UK GDPR, the Data Protection Act 2018 and the development of the tort of misuse of private information. This article reviews the cases to date, including the most recent attempt in Prismall v Google UK Limited [2023] EWHC 1169 (KB), and examines why class action lawsuits – generally referred to as ‘group litigation’ in England – have failed to provide results for individuals whose data and information have been misused or inadequately protected.
Dec 01, 2023
Nearly a quarter of the way into the 21st century, technology continues to be one of the areas where humanity has made the fastest progress. Although the ease of data access is one of the most important opportunities provided by technology, this convenience has negatively affected the right to privacy and created the risk of data being accessible indefinitely. The concept of the right to be forgotten has become prominent in order to strike a balance between privacy of individuals on the one hand and the public interest and freedom of expression on the other.
Jul 18, 2023
A report of the 25th Transnational Crime Conference, held 3–5 May 2023 in Boston, Massachusetts.
May 17, 2023
Despite widespread acceptance that newspapers are a crucial element of democratic societies, they’re under severe threat as revenues flow to internet platforms. Global Insight reports on legislative efforts to save the ‘Fourth Estate’.
The article examines the Competition Commission of India’s (CCI) decisional practice in cases of abuse of dominance in relation to big tech companies. The authors note that the CCI has adopted a cautious approach, and has on certain occasions expressed its reluctance in early intervention in a nascent sector. The article examines the need for the CCI to be driven by a fact-based approach in light of the jurisprudence from other mature regulators.
The approach currently adopted by competition authorities around the world against so-called big tech hides two main risks, namely the delay in respect of innovation processes that may cause the actions undertaken turn out to be vain and the antitrust over-enforcement. This second feature, particularly, is strictly related to the position that enforcers are prone to adopt on competition law goals, which debate has massively re-emerged in the present context
The Australian Government has recently consulted on draft legislation, the Treasury Laws Amendment (News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code) Bill 2020 (draft Code). The draft Code requires designated digital platforms, initially only Google and Facebook, to negotiate with Australian media companies on a range of issues, including the question of payment for using a media company’s news content. If the negotiating is unsuccessful, this question of payment may be sent to compulsory arbitra
Oct 12, 2021
In this article we look at the growth of data breach class actions in the UK and Europe following the coming into force of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We also consider regulatory activity in the data protection field and the links between investigations and recent class actions. Looking to the future we ask whether current trends are likely to continue, highlighting some powerful policy statements made by the English Court of Appeal in support of data breach class actions, and conclude with a few words on litigation funding and its role in facilitating these kinds of cases.
Jun 01, 2023
The dynamic nature of the digital environment with its lack of transparency and market complexity continues to challenge regulators, often making it difficult to detect issues and take enforcement action to deal with unfair trade practices, anti-competitive conduct and privacy and cybersecurity breaches.
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