In two recent decisions, the German Higher Regional Courts (Oberlandesgerichte – OLG) of Cologne and Munich have clarified the – strict – German requirements for cancellation buttons on websites of tech companies providing digital services to consumers, such as telecommunications services or pay-TV/streaming services.
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With the upcoming Digital Networks Act, the European Union will transform the regulatory landscape for electronic communications networks (ECN) and electronic communications services (ECS). This ambitious legislation aims to address several challenges in the current regulatory framework, including the lack of a fully integrated single market for telecommunications and the inconsistent management of radio spectrum licensing across EU member states.
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For the first time in history, the Czech courts have directly dealt with the issue of copyright protection for content created with the help of generative AI.
In the case, the plaintiff generated an image using the program DALL-E. The prompt was to “Create a visual representation of two parties
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After years of intense negotiation, EU stakeholders have finally reached political agreement on the long-awaited EU Artificial Intelligence Act (“EU AI Act“), which was first published by the European Commission (“EC“) on 21 April 2021. Following the final trilogues, the Council of the EU released the
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With great fanfare, and a Herculean final series of negotiating sessions stretching long into the night, political agreement on the EU AI Act was reached on 8th December 2023. This marked a big step closer to the first major piece of legislation regulating AI and its uses coming in
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After the EU Parliament adopted its position regarding the draft EU AI Act on 14 June 2023 with an overwhelming majority, the last step of the legislative process – the trilogue negotiations between the Parliament, the EU Council of Ministers and the European Commission – meanwhile began, mindful of the
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While many AI pundits are keenly paying attention to the ongoing EU trialogue on the EU AI Act, at the end of August 2023 Spain took a proactive step and established Europe’s first AI regulator. The Spanish Agency for the Supervision of Artificial Intelligence (“AESIA“) was formed by
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In recent weeks, generative AI platforms, such as Chat GPT-4, DALL.E 2, and Stable Diffusion, have made headlines for a number of reasons. Many have questioned the impact this technology will have on business, education, and the creative sectors, and the potential benefits it may bring. Others
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On 6 December 2022, the Council of the European Union (“EU Council”) announced that it had adopted a position on its general approach to the development of a harmonised regime for regulating AI in the EU (the proposed EU AI Act (“AI Act”)).
The adoption is
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In September 2022, the European Commission adopted a proposal for a directive on liability for damage caused by artificial intelligence, aimed at building trust in AI and encouraging investments across the internal market.
Civil liability and Artificial Intelligence: why specific legislation is needed
According to a recent survey, civil
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