Osborne Clarke's best legal reads of the week: March 9-13
Published on 13th Mar 2015
In this week’s edition of Osborne Clarke’s best legal reads, we’ll be recapping some of our most read blogs around smart cities, this year’s MIPIM event and discussing some immature poets…
The latest installment of the blog series based on our smart cities in Europe, enabling innovation report takes a look at the findings on smart cities in Italy. Italy is one of the most advanced European countries in terms of smart city initiatives. Read the full blog post and research results here.
Osborne Clarke’s Real Estate and Infrastructure BD Manager Nick Wright reports back from MIPIM, which this year feels re-energised and busy with a strong positive sentiment across the market. Read more here.
What are the challenges being faced by cities that want to become “smart”? Osborne Clarke surveyed 300 senior executives from technology companies, investment funds, banks, consultancies and government officials across Europe and found widespread interest in smart cities. Our report looked at what was needed to enable innovation and, in parallel, what was holding back the implementation of innovation. Read on to explore more about the report here.
To a significant extent, the richness of art – in any of its many forms – derives from reworking familiar stories, images and thoughts into a new, unfamiliar form which hopefully will resonate with the audience to which it is addressed in a way that the original may no longer do. Find out more about how the italian court tackled a 19 year long copyright infringement here.
As we previously blogged about Osborne Clarke’s corporate law blog, the Government has brought regulations into force, with effect from 4 March 2015, prohibiting the use of cancellation schemes of arrangement on takeovers. The policy behind the regulations is the equalisation of the stamp duty treatment of takeovers conducted by scheme and contractual offer. Read more here.
- [Huffington Post] The Samsung ‘Spy TV’ Scare Detracts from Bigger Picture
When George Orwell’s novel ‘1984’ was published in 1948, one of its most futuristic ideas was the ‘Telescreen’. This large television spewed out propaganda while monitoring the owner by recording their conversations. Read the full article by Emily Jones, Technology and Data Privacy Partner at Osborne Clarke on the Huffington Post here.
