Your commercial news round-up: UK business rate cuts, bus fare cap, Paramount and Warner Bros merger, Bloomsbury AI copyright settlement
Support for England’s high streets is set to increase, with pubs, clubs and live music venues due to receive a business rates cut and bus passengers benefitting from the return of a £2 fare cap. Elsewhere, European regulators have approved Paramount Skydance’s proposed takeover of Warner Bros Discovery, although the deal faces legal challenges in the US, while publisher Bloomsbury stands to receive a multimillion-pound payout from a major copyright settlement over the use of authors’ work to train AI systems. Read on for LawCareers.Net’s pick of this week’s top commercial stories.
