We are delighted to present the 2025 Digital, Commerce, and Creative report, a short handbook to help you navigate the changes that lie ahead in the legal landscape.
This year's report distils key legal and regulatory changes into short, user-friendly checklists, timelines, and summaries, organised into four essential sections to help you focus on the issues most relevant to you:
- Regulating intelligence: focuses on the AI journey which continues to evolve. We take a look at why AI matters and how you can best plan for and manage its deployment.
- Staying safe in the online world: we look at how 2025 brings a focus to implementing new online safety measures (via the Online Safety Act) to achieve a safer digital world for consumers, as well as from a cyber perspective.
- Harnessing and exploiting IP: we look at what’s new in protecting and using intellectual property, including from an AI-generated content perspective.
- Selling, buying, and marketing in 2025 and beyond: we look at the changes that businesses will need to make, including under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act (DMCC), in respect of consumer protection and advertising requirements, such as pricing practices, green/ethical claims and online targeting, all against the backdrop of brand new DMCC powers, enforcement resources, and GDPR-style fines.
At the end of the report, we have included links to some practical ‘101 guides’ on a range of commercial and technology topics, which we hope you find useful.
We hope that you enjoy reading the report.
