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Karimi & Associates Law Firm presents according to The Reuters: A South Korean internet service provider named SK Broadband has filed a lawsuit against Netflix claiming that Netflix has to pay for costs from increased network traffic and maintenance work due to the considerable increase of viewers of the U.S. content provider’s newly published content named Squid Game. According to the court documents, SK Broadband estimated the network usage fee Netflix needed to …

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Karimi & Associates Law Firm presents, according to The Jurist: The Waco Division of the US District Court for the Western District of Texas ruled that Google did not infringe a digital photo frame patent owned by a Texas-based company named Profectus Technology LLC (“Profectus”). Profectus filed a lawsuit against Google in February 2020, claiming that a patent owned by Profectus has been infringed by Google’s picture display frames, Nest Hub, …

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Karimi & Associates Law Firm presents according to The European Parliament: The risk of algorithmic bias in artificial intelligence’s applications was pointed out by the members of the European Parliament that led to adopting a resolution in this regard with 377 votes in favor, 248 against, and 62 abstentions. Further, They’ve outlined that human supervision and strong legal powers are needed to prevent discrimination by artificial intelligence, particularly in enforcement laws or …

European Parliament ratifies a Resolution to combat discrimination and to ensure the right to privacy Read More »

Karimi & Associates Law Firm presents according to The Financial Times: Tether, a company that is known to be the world’s largest issuer of stablecoins, has agreed to pay a 41 million dollar penalty to resolve a US regulator’s claim that it had falsely represented that its digital tokens were fully backed by dollars. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) claimed that from at least June 2016 to February 2019, misleading statements …

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Karimi & Associates Law Firm represents, according to The Jurist: A representation has been made by the Indian digital liberties organization Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) to Google India’s public policy head, declaring that recent content takedowns and blocking of YouTube channels belonging to independent news outlets, citizen journalists, and satirists resulted from misuse of copyright laws. IFF has further outlined that some of the copyright strikes — most notably, the …

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Karimi & Associates Law Firm presents according to The U.S. Department of the treasury: The United Kingdom, France, Italy, Austria, and Spain have declared in a joint statement that there would be a repeal of their ‘Digital Services Taxes’. The joint statement is based on an agreement between the five countries and the U.S Department of the Treasury in accordance with the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development “OECD” provisions and in …

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Karimi & Associates Law Firm represents, according to The Japan Times: Nippon Steel Corp, a Japanese steel company, stated that it has sued one of its major customers, Toyota Motor Corp., and Chinese steel maker Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., claiming infringement of a patent related to an important steel product for electric vehicles. The Japanese steel-maker has further said it is seeking compensation totaling ¥20 billion ($176 million) from …

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Karimi & Associates Law Firm presents according to The Guardian: The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has fined Facebook £50.5m due to breaching an order issued by the CMA during its investigation into Facebook’s purchase of the gif creation website, Giphy. Earlier this year, an investigation was started by the CMA into Facebook’s $400m (£290m) takeover. The investigation was launched after the regulator recognized several concerns regarding Facebook’s takeover of Giphy, …

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Karimi & Associates Law Firm presents, according to The Jurist: A new online privacy bill has been proposed by the Australian government, which mainly concerns online privacy and regulates social media companies. The act purportedly “enables the introduction of a binding online privacy code for social media and certain other online platforms, and increases penalties and enforcement measures.” According to the bill, social media services, data brokerage services, and large online …

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Karimi & Associates Law Firm presents according to The Guardian: The European court of justice (ECJ) has fined Poland €1m per day for ignoring a ruling that it must reform its controversial judicial system changes. The mentioned penalty, which is to be considered as the highest ever against a member state, has been imposed after a long-running battle between Brussels and Poland over changes that are said to undermine the independence of …

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