1. Fast fashion firms prepare for EU crackdown on waste mountain. Between 6 and 7 billion euros of investment will be needed by 2030 to create the scale of textile waste processing and recycling that the EU is aiming for, consultancy McKinsey estimated in a report last year. – Read More on Reuters

2. What if silent luxury was not a trend, but a symptom of a shift in the fashion industry? Taking into account the different types of capital established by the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, dressing in expensive and yet boring clothes, in addition to granting cultural capital among the like-minded, also incorporates other capitals: economic (purchasing power) and social (connections). – Read More on El Pais

3. RELATED READ: What Does Quiet Luxury Mean from a Trademark Perspective? The rise of “stealth wealth” is a call for companies to lean more heavily on/develop alternative or additional trademarks. – Read More on TFL

4. Google hit with copyright lawsuit by Danish online job-search rival. This is the first lawsuit in the Danish courts under new EU copyright rules regarding platforms’ liability for content uploaded to their services that came into force in 2021. – Read More on Reuters

5. From China to Brazil, here’s how AI is regulated around the world. Some countries, including Israel and Japan, have responded to its lightning-fast growth by clarifying existing data, privacy & copyright protections — in both cases clearing the way for copyrighted content to be used to train AI. Others have taken a wait-and-see approach. – Read More on the Washington Post

6. Foreign luxury brands flock to India ahead of festive season, as big labels look to tap into growing affluence of Indians. There is an influx of new brands like French luxury retailer Galeries Lafayette, which is entering the Indian market through a partnership with the Aditya Birla Group, while Spanish luxury fashion house Balenciaga SA is planning to open stores in collaboration with Reliance Brands. – Read More on the Times of India