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Person 5 stretched with satisfaction: their data is safe. In the register of court decisions, they are only Person 5. But they didn’t know that the day after tomorrow, skillful marketers would get to another open registry and flood their inbox with paper spam. After all, it’s open data, so it’s okay. Why is it not? Read this article for AIN about open data and how to use it without violating the privacy of Ukrainians.

May 17, 2024 2 min

Mykhailo Yudin, a partner at Axon Partners and a current serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, analyzed whether a serviceman can be engaged in business activity, whether as a private entrepreneur or as a member of the management of an LLC. Based on Forbes' materials.

March 13, 2024 1 min

Taylor Swift was the first artist to receive seven Grammy nominations for Song of the Year, had eight sold-out shows at the UK`s biggest arena, Wembley Stadium, and became the most popular artist in the history of Spotify and Apple Music. In addition to her musical talent, Taylor has an outstanding business mindset. One of the pillars of her unprecedented success is a well-thought-out strategy for protecting intellectual property. Mariia Yesypovych and Mykhailo Yudin from Axon Partners law firm explored how the world’s biggest pop star protects various components of her creativity, brand, and media identity. Publication for Slukh.

March 13, 2024 2 min

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mariia Yesypovych, Associate at Axon Partners, prepared a column for AIN.UA on the regulation of deepfakes.

October 6, 2023 1 min

Why should porn be legalized? Here’s the answer of Mykhailo Yudin, partner at Axon Partners Law Firm

August 25, 2023 2 min

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

August 3, 2023 1 min

March 23, 2023 1 min