Is ICO asking you to pay data protection registration fee?
Anna Petrushko and Oksana Zadniprovska prepared this material for those businesses that are data controllers in the UK.
March 26, 2024 1 min
Civil claims in Ukraine for personal data protection
Captain Obvious is with you. We are pleased to bring to your attention an article on how Ukrainian courts do not understand personal data protection legislation.
February 29, 2024 2 min
Legal Guide for Startups: Incubation and Acceleration from a Boring Legal Angle
March 13, 2017 1 min
Professional mentoring program in Kyiv-Mohyla Academy: Axon in action
When we applied for the professional mentoring program of the Faculty of Law of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, we thought: oh, a great chance to get cool interns from a cool university, to teach the younger generation and learn from them. And what’s nice is that the university encourages independent communication between mentors and mentees, with minimal interference. Everything is adult. That's how we found the perfect match and created a kind of educational Tinder.
March 8, 2024 1 min
The new law “On Digital Content and Digital Services” comes into force on March 2 – what you need to know
On 2 March, the new law “On Digital Content and Digital Services” comes into force. It was adopted to harmonize Ukrainian legislation with the provisions of EU Directive 2019/770. It aims to protect the rights of consumers of digital content and digital services. In his column for AIN.UA, Axon Partners’ lawyer Dmitry Kondratiev explained what the law is about and to whom it applies.
March 3, 2024 1 min
The good news in the case against the State Film Agency
It took 4 years, two rounds of jurisdiction determination, and even the liquidation of courts for the Supreme Court to issue final judgments in favor of our clients Andrii Khalpakhcha and Andrii Donchyk in the first two cases on the recovery of stipends for members of the first State Film Support Council. In total, we have eight such cases, and the rest are still on the way to cassation.
February 23, 2024 1 min
The Porn Industry: How Much Tax Does Ukraine Lose?
Not sure what video to watch enjoying your lonely shawarma on February 14? Just kidding. But if you guessed right, we invite you to watch the recording of the conversation about decriminalization of porn that took place at the Lviv Regulatory Hub with the participation of experts: porn actress Josephine Jackson, Axon Partners partner Mykhailo Yudin, LRH CEO Taras Khavunka, and ex-porn actor and current porn producer Dan Leal.
February 14, 2024 1 min
IT-related legislation and changes that come into effect in 2024
In 2024, tax audits will be resumed in Ukraine, the laws “On Consumer Protection” and “On Digital Content and Digital Services” will come into force, and new regulations on Diia City will come into effect. Axon Partners’ lawyer Dmitry Kondratiev told AIN.UA in an op-ed what IT companies should pay attention to in 2024.
January 24, 2024 2 min
Insignificant cases: what the Constitutional Court missed
On November 22, the Constitutional Court ruled on four constitutional claims regarding insignificant cases in the civil process. I was the author of one of these claims, so the comment below is inevitably my subjective and biased opinion. At the same time, I will try to react to the decision of the Constitutional Court rationally, in the sense that any court process is a rational, even if formalized, communication, and the court decision is not a dogma but an attempt to rationally convince the parties (in the first place) and the community (in the second place) in the correctness of the court’s conclusions. So, did the court manage to persuade Mykyta Yevstifeiev? Published by Dead Lawyers Society.
December 25, 2023 1 min
Why the Ukrainian tax authorities fined PornHub – a lawyer’s analysis
On December 19, the State Tax Service of Ukraine fined the company that operates the PornHub website $5543. The issue is the failure to pay the so-called "Google tax," which is used to finance the army’s needs. In addition, the company that operates the PornHub website evaded registration, although Ukraine is ranked 14th among other countries in terms of views. Axon Partners’ lawyer Iryna Melnykovych in her op-ed for AIN.UA discussed whether PornHub really violated the law and what it means for the company.
December 24, 2023 2 min
Successful success in our case of the Cycling Federation
We wanted to publish the news about the case we won in the Ukrainian Cycling Federation project much earlier. In early December, we learned that the Pivnichny Commercial Court of Appeal had finally (and hopefully finally) confirmed the legality of the FCU Conference back in 2019 in our main case (and we have only 11 of them on this project!).
December 19, 2023 1 min
CJEU decision and non-pecuniary damage in personal data cases
Let’s dream about a bright future. 2029. Ukraine is in the EU, Russian War Ship went f*ck itself (haha). Let’s say our Supreme Court appeals to the EU Court of Justice and asks for clarification on a few issues regarding the GDPR. The court is very interested in how to award non-pecuniary damage to people whose data was published online after a large-scale data breach as a result of a hacker attack.
December 18, 2023 1 min
Cybertruck and Terms of Use
Observant citizens in the USA have noticed that Tesla has rolled out new conditions for the sale of Tesla cars (Motor Vehicle Order Terms & Conditions, see PDF), which are posted on the company’s website and are available for review when ordering cars. Since the American legal community has long since mastered the technique of separating individual contract terms into paragraphs, it was easy for readers to notice the section under the heading “Cybertruck Only”.
November 16, 2023 1 min
Lutsk, drug addicts, pedophiles, LGBT people, Romani, and Nazis. What do they have in common?
Have you ever heard of articles written to hear the opinions of your colleagues, to get support for your position, or to criticize it? We call them discussion articles or roast articles. We have long dreamed of trying to introduce this format, at least on our Facebook page. And now the time has finally come.
November 3, 2023 1 min
Deepfake: a fun trend or an offense?
Mariia Yesypovych, Associate at Axon Partners, prepared a column for AIN.UA on the regulation of deepfakes.
October 6, 2023 1 min
Legalization of porn will expand personal freedom: interview with lawyer Mykhailo Yudin
Why should porn be legalized? Here’s the answer of Mykhailo Yudin, partner at Axon Partners Law Firm
August 25, 2023 2 min
How to transfer data to the US under GDPR 3.0: EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework – briefly and clearly
Previously, Oksana Zadniprovska, Partner at Axon Partners, wrote a column for AIN.UA about the rules for transferring personal data to the United States. Recently, there have been important changes – the EU has recognized the United States as an adequate jurisdiction for data transfer. Read on to discover when this will work and what it means for IT business.
August 4, 2023 1 min
Does copyright protect Soviet-era monumental art?
August 3, 2023 1 min
How to set up a cookie banner when you go to Europe. Legal advice
Our lawyer Arina Kostina described in an article on DOU the problematic issues of cookie banners that developers creating web products for the European Union should pay attention to. Liubov Mykyievych helped Arina research this issue.
April 25, 2023 1 min
Actual data protection law in Ukraine and forecasts for its EU-GDPR compliance
March 23, 2023 1 min
How to write a public offer yourself? And is it necessary at all?
Especially for AIN.Business, Axon Partners lawyer Kateryna Nalyvaiko explained what a public offer is, how to draft it correctly, and whether anything would change if you called it “Terms of Use.”
June 9, 2021 1 min
Calls to the army by sms are FAKE
November 30, 2018 1 min
Martial Law in ten regions of Ukraine
November 30, 2018 1 min