Uber: Is this the beginning of the end for the ride-hailing Goliath?
It ll keep fighting, but for how much longer?
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Uber is having a torrid time, and I canât help but feel that this is an inflection point for the ride-hailing giant. It either has to set off on a new path towards fairness for its workers, or this point, right here, right now, will mark the beginning of its end.
Those who have followed Uberâs so-called âdisruptionâ of the taxi market, will know the constant debate between drivers and the âapp platformâ over the fairness of its algorithm, and how it pays its workers, all too well.
The draft legislative initiative calls on the Commission to urgently present a law that ensures companies are held accountable and liable when they ha.
By Victor Omondi Things might not go entirely well with Uber, now that the UK Supreme Court has had its final say on the ruling on the relationship between Uber drivers and Uber, the company. The verdict could cause adverse effects to the gig economy. The company’s drivers well be enlisted for a minimum wage […]
By Hamish MacPherson
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An archivist at The National Archives of Scotland, in Edinburgh, looks over the Act of Union of the Scottish Parliament, which dates back to January 16, 1707 IN this second of two columns on the Act of Union, I will show how the British Empire was founded on several articles of the Union, how England was favoured by most of the Articles, and I will end with a suggestion on how we Scots can put an end to the Union. One of the principal drivers for Scottish participation in the Union was trade. The growing mercantile classes in Scotland were desperate to have access to parts of the world that had hitherto been for England-only trade, a restriction which was enforced by the Royal Navy. It is wrong to say that Scotland had no “navy” of its own in 1707, but it was minuscule compared to the Royal Navy. Scotland had a growing number of trading ships and the protection of that Royal Navy
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The development of connected automobiles crystallizes the tensions between intellectual property law and competition law that have existed for years, particularly in the area of standard essential patents (SEPs). These SEPs are essential to standards that set the technical specifications defining requirements for products, production processes, services, or test-methods, and which cannot be designed around. European courts, legislatures, and regulatory bodies have been engaging in an evolving debate, often centered on the issue of what constitutes a “fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND)” license.
A typical SEP dispute involves the patent holder suing the user for infringement. In other cases, the user alleges that the SEP holder is violating its market dominant position by not issuing a license on FRAND terms. Courts and competition authorities in Europe haven taken different approaches in protecting the i