Piracy / Publishing: The owner of the South Korean pirate library on Telegram, Yubin Archive, which had over 330,000 members and distributed paid educational materials for free, has been arrested (Press release from the South Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, August 12, 2025).
Piracy / Publishing: A coalition of academic publishers, Springer Nature, Elsevier, Taylor & Francis Group and the American Chemical Society, is targeting Cloudflare and SLUM for possible legal action against the operators of several shadow libraries, such as Anna’s Archive, Z-Library, and Libgen (Press release of August 9, 2025).
Media: The new provisions of the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA), which aims to strengthen the independence, transparency and pluralism of the media in the European Union, will apply fully from 8 August 2025 (Press release of 8 August 2025).
Cybercrime: Submission of a bill drafted by Senator Nathalie Goulet following the conclusions of the commission of inquiry into the fight against organised crime “in order to make the fight against the gangsterisation of France by organised crime and money laundering a priority” (Legislative file, July 31, 2025).
Cybercrime: A member of the LockBit cybercriminal group was arrested in mid-July by the French National Cyber Unit of the Gendarmerie (UNCyber) (Presse release August 5, 2025).
Information warfare / Report: The report of the information mission on ‘the operationalisation of the new strategic function of influence’ was submitted to the French National Assembly on 2 July. It notes the progress made in this new strategic function and sets out a series of 34 proposals for adapting to the challenges of influence (Information report no. 1661, 2 July 2025).
AI Regulation: In an open letter dated 3 July, 52 major companies call for a pause in the entry into force of the AI Regulation (Press release of 3 July 2025).
Blocking of mirror sites / Justice: The decision to block a site that distributes illegal content is provisionally enforceable and justifies the request to ARCOM to block mirror sites (Conseil d’État decision no. 502343, 4 July 2025).
AI and creation / Report: The information report on artificial intelligence and creation was presented to the Senate on 9 July. It focuses on the need for a long-term relationship that is ‘respectful of rights and inspiring for creation’ (Information report, 9 July 2025).
Trademarks / Decisions: In two decisions handed down on July 2, the EU General Court annulled the EUIPO decisions in which FERRARI had forfeited its rights to the word mark TESTAROSSA (EU General Court decisions of July 2, 2025, in cases T1103/23 and T1104/23).
Trademarks / Decisions: In 4 rulings handed down on July 9, the EU General Court confirms the EUIPO’s decision to cancel trademarks based on the “Rubik’s Cube” shape (EU General Court decisions of July 9, 2025 in cases 1170/23, 1171/23, 1172/23 and 1173/23).
AI / Strategy: On July 3, the French Ministry of Culture presented its action strategy for cultural AI (AI action strategy of July 3, 2025).
Competition and AI / Report: On July 10, the French Competition Authority published its 2025-2026 roadmap, in which AI plays a major role (The French Competition Authority’s 2025-2026 roadmap).
Health & Safety / Order: In France, an order dated July 3 creates a funding program aimed at strengthening the digital security of healthcare establishments (Order of July 3, 2025).
Trademarks / Rulings: In 3 rulings on July 9, the EU General Court ruled that the capital letter “I” with a red heart on the left could not be registered as an EU trademark for clothing (Judgments of July 9, 2025 in cases T-304/24, T-305/24 and T-306-24).
Intellectual Property / Publisher: On July 10, 2025, General Coursel Szpunar delivered his Opinion in Case C-797/23, in which the Court is asked to rule on the compatibility of Italian legislation transposing the Copyright Directive into the digital single market. The Advocate General considers that “the Member States may adopt supporting measures to guarantee the effectiveness of the rights of press publishers, provided that such measures do not infringe freedom of contract” (CJEU press release, July 10, 2025).
Security / Notice: In a decision issued on July 11, the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) ruled against the use of “augmented” cameras to check the age of tobacco shop customers (CNIL opinion of July 11, 2025).
Cybersecurity / Operation: The international operation Eastwood, in which Europol and Eurojust took part from July 14 to 17, aimed to take action against the offenders and infrastructures of the pro-Russian cybercrime network NoName057 (Europol Press Release, July 16, 2025).
Personal Data / Complaints: Noyb filed a complaint on July 17 against Tiktok, AliExpress and WeChat for failure to respect users’ rights of access to their data under Article 15 of the GDPR (Complaints against Tiktok, AliExpress and WeChat of July 17, 2025 filed by Noyb).
Digital / Interference: Following two reports of the alleged use of X’s algorithm for foreign interference, the Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office has referred an investigation into X to the Gendarmerie.
On the network of the same name, X denounces an investigation for political purposes “is distorting French law” and “ultimately, restrict free speech”. For these reasons, company X refuses to allow the French authorities access to its algorithm (X press release, on social network X, July 21, 2025).
RGPD / AI: To help AI players determine whether the use of their models is subject to the RGPD, the French National Commission on Informatics and Liberty has published a guide in its latest AI sheets (CNIL press release, July 22, 2025).
Cryptocurrencies / Legislation: On July 17, the US House of Representatives passed the CLARITY Act with the aim of regularising cryptocurrencies (CLARITY Act passed on July 17, 2025 by the US House of Representatives).
AI / Agreement: On July 10, the European Commission published a code of conduct for general-purpose AI (Code of good conduct by the European Commission of July 10, 2025).
AI / Meta: Meta announced on July 19, via its head of international affairs Joel Kaplan, that it would not sign the European AI code of good conduct (Joel Kaplan’s Linkedin publication of July 19, 2025).
AI / Report: On July 2, the French Conseil Supérieur de la Propriété Littéraire et Artistique (CSPLA) published its mission report on remuneration for cultural content used by AI systems (CSPLA mission report published on July 2, 2025).
Piracy / Sports: In a press release dated July 11, the French Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP) announced the ruling handed down by the Paris Court of First Instance on July 10, ordering French ISPs to block access to pirate live streaming sites and IPTV services (LFP press release, July 11, 2025).
Piracy / Sports: In a press release dated July 18, the Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP) announced the July 17 decision by the President of the Paris Court of First Instance to order alternative DNS providers to block illegal streaming sites, IPTV services and an application broadcasting McDonald’s Ligue 1 and BKT Ligue 2 matches without rights (LFP press release, July 18, 2025).
Cybercrime: Europol issued a press release on July 23, announcing the arrest of the administrator of xss.is, a Russian speaking cybercriminal platform (Europol press release, July 23, 2025).
AI / Model: On July 24, the European Commission published a model enabling providers of general-purpose AI models to summarize the data used to train their model (European Commission model of July 24, 2025).
Copyright / Justice: The Paris Court of Appeal handed down a ruling on July 11 confirming the copyright protection of the Hermès brand’s “Oran” and “Izmir” designs (Paris Court of Appeal decision of July 11, 2025, RG no. 23/17558).
Safety of minors / Decision: In a decision handed down on July 22, the Paris Administrative Court of Appeal ruled that French DSC ARCOM can require an American domain name resolution service to block French Internet users from accessing a pornographic video-sharing platform that does not effectively control the age of its visitors (Decision of July 22, 2025 by the Paris Administrative Court of Appeal).
Open Data / Report: On July 11, the French Supreme Court (Cour de Cassation) shared a report on open data for court decisions with the French Ministry of the Interior (Rapport de la Cour de Cassation de juillet 2025 sur l’open data des décisions de justice).
AI / Action Plan: On July 23, the White House released its AI action plan entitled “Winning The AI Race: America’s AI Action Plan” to secure US global technological dominance in AI (Winning The AI Race: America’s AI Action Plan, July 23, 2025).
Ticket resale / Sports: On July 2, the Paris Court of Appeal ruled in the case between the French Tennis Federation (FFT) and Viagogo that Viagogo had indeed infringed the FFT’s operating monopoly on the sale of tickets for the Rolex Paris Masters (FFT press release announcing the Paris Court of Appeal’s decision of July 2, 2025).
DSA / Investigation: The European Commission concluded on July 28 that the online retailer Temu has failed in its obligation under the Digital Services Act (DSA) to properly assess the risks of distributing illicit products on its market (Investigation results published on July 28, 2025 by the European Commission).
IA / Justice: On July 18, the Delhi High Court handed down a decision in a case of digital harassment targeting an Indian activist. The judge ordered several protective measures of unprecedented scope, aimed at countering abuses linked to deepfakes and AI-generated content (Delhi High Court decision of July 18, 2025).
Copyright / Statement: On July 30, a coalition of European and global authors, performers, publishers, producers and other right holders organisations issued a statement opposing the EU’s AI policy, which they say runs counter to European copyright rules (Declaration of July 30, 2025 by a coalition of European cultural actors).
Registrar / DNS: WebNic.cc failed to comply with its contractual obligations regarding DNS abuse mitigation (Press release dated July 29, 2025).
Play Store: Google loses its appeal against Epic Games (Fortnite) and must reform its app store (Communication dated July 31, 2025).
