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TMT weekly highlights—7 April 2022

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Published on: 07 April 2022

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Information technology
Court of Appeal overturns key decision on exclusion clauses (Soteria Insurance Ltd v IBM)
Media
Oh Why and Oh I—High Court finds no copyright infringement by Ed Sheeran (Sheeran v Chokri)
Ofcom publishes Broadcast and On Demand Bulletin 448
New technologies
US$4.5bn claim against bitcoin software developers dismissed by High Court (Tulip Trading Ltd v Van der Laan)
Telecommunications
Ten Member States referred to Court of Justice for not transposing EU Communications Code
PSA Code 15 comes into effect on 5 April 2022

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Welcome to this week’s edition of the TMT weekly highlights: a hand-picked summary of news analysis, updates and new content from across the technology, media and telecoms sectors. These highlights focus on key topics including new technologies, software, cloud computing, internet, outsourcing, music, film & television, publishing, defamation and telecoms.

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