Jun 19, 2023 06:33 am UTC| Law Economy Business
General Motors Asian distributor has been fined $208,000 by South Koreas Fair Trade Commission (FTC) for unjustly forcing local dealers to share marketing costs, marking the FTCs first action against an imported car...
US regulators continue crypto crackdown - but here's why the latest charges are different
Jun 19, 2023 06:24 am UTC| Law
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sued the cryptocurrency platform Coinbase shortly after launching a lawsuit against the worlds largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance. This isnt the first time Binance...
Referendum bill to pass on Monday while government pulls out stops to try to secure housing fund
Jun 19, 2023 06:22 am UTC| Law Politics
Federal parliament enters its last week before the winter break ready to approve legislation for the Voice referendum but with the governments proposed $10 billion Housing Australia Future Fund still in the...
How 'constitutional county' declarations undermine the Constitution – a legal scholar explains
Jun 16, 2023 06:01 am UTC| Law
Declaring its community a constitutional county on May 23, 2023, the Board of County Commissioners in Ottawa County, Michigan, voted 9-1 not to enforce any law or rule that restricts the rights of any law-abiding citizen...
Generative AI is a minefield for copyright law
Jun 16, 2023 05:59 am UTC| Technology Law
In 2022, an AI-generated work of art won the Colorado State Fairs art competition. The artist, Jason Allen, had used Midjourney a generative AI system trained on art scraped from the internet to create the piece. The...
Jun 16, 2023 05:58 am UTC| Law
The Supreme Court affirmed the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act, a 1978 law enacted to protect Native American children in the U.S. and strengthen their families, in a June 15, 2023, ruling. Tribal leaders...
EU files antitrust charges against Google – here's how the ad tech at the heart of the case works
Jun 15, 2023 06:00 am UTC| Law Business Technology
The European Union filed an antitrust case against Google on June 14, 2023, charging that the company abused its power in the online advertising market to disadvantage its competition. The U.S. Department of Justice filed...
Canadians are feeling increasingly powerless amid economic struggles and rising inequality
Another election, another round of Nigel Farage hype, with no lessons learned