Insurer Mercury General Corporation has said that it expects the ongoing wildfires in Los Angeles, California will result in losses for the company that will exceed its reinsurance retention of $150 million.It will be some time until Mercury has an estimate for its ultimate losses from the ongoing wildfire event, the company said today. But, … Read more
Latest Insights from the European Union and the United States As widely known, the retention of metadata constitutes an essential tool in the context of the fight against terrorism and, more broadly, serious crime. This analysis focuses on a comparison between two “giants” under the perspective of metadata retention for security purposes, i.e. Europe and … Read more
Image via flickr Introduction This two-part blog post is aiming to explain what Rights Retention is and how it works in practice. In the first part, I’ll explain the forces at play in the publishing industry, why copyright ownership in academia is so important and how the publishing process works. These are technicalities that must … Read more
Image via flickr Rights Retention Strategy Plan S is innovative, ambitious and unsurprisingly complex. Rights retention represents just a part of Plan S. Rights retention was developed as a strategy for compliance with the funder’s requirements by retaining some of the economic rights granted by copyright. It was not intended to be a strategy for … Read more
