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Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming more and more of the order of the day. Its impact has also been debated in the field of copyright law, and it is becoming increasingly important to assess the challenges posed by the emergence and rapid development of AI, as well as to address legal gaps in...

Order no. 176/2024-XXIII of the former Secretary for Tax Affairs extends the deadline for submitting model 22 corporate income tax returns for the 2023 tax period to 15 July 2024, without any penalty being applied. Nuno Filipe Henriques

Decree-Law no. 8/2024 of January 5, which defines the disability verification system within the scope of social security came into force on April 1, 2024. Its aim is to adapt the disability verification system "to the new legal and social reality, changing the way it works in order to make...

Six months after the European Commission designated the companies considered to be gatekeepers, or access controllers, Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, ByteDance (Tiktok), Meta (Facebook) and Microsoft, they now have to comply with the obligations and prohibitions arising from Articles 5, 6 and 7...

The Organic Law no. 1/2024, of 5 March, introduced the tenth amendment to the Nationality Law, Law no. 37/81, of 3 October. This update strengthens the criteria and procedures for acquiring Portuguese nationality, with the aim of ensuring greater legal certainty and social cohesion. Félix Bernardo

Law no. 56/2023, of October 6, which approved measures in the field of housing, made legislative changes in the field of renting, reviewing aspects of the legal regime of urban renting, in particular that provided for in Law no. 6/2006, of February 27 ("NRAU"), and in Decree-Laws no. 1/2013, of...

Decree-Law no. 10/2024 of 8 January, which approved the licensing simplex, altered the rules of the Civil Code relating to horizontal property, determining that altering the purpose or use for which each fraction/apartment is intended for habitation does not require the authorisation of the other...

Earlier this year, the famous Mickey Mouse entered the public domain, which means that anyone can use the image without having to ask Disney for prior permission.  It turns out that this is not just any image of Mickey Mouse, but his first black and white image, made popular by the cartoon ...