Artificial Intelligence

Becoming the world’s leading AI Continent: The Commission’s “AI Continent Action Plan”For Your AIs Only: Agentic AI Steps Out of the ShadowsHong Kong released GenAI Technical and Application Guideline

Autonomous Vehicles

UK Government proposes amendments to the UK Highway CodeUS Department of Transportation seeks input for a regulatory framework for automated driving systemsUS auto safety regulation system could better address emerging technologies

Behavioral Advertising

Beyond Binary: Revisiting the Interplay of Artificial Intelligence, Human Rights, and the Rule of Law

Blockchain & Smart Contracts

Formula 1’s NFTs: A new era in ticketing and digital technologyTech Index 2022: Pathways to Growth in a Troubled WorldHong Kong provides long-awaited policy and regulatory updates on virtual assets

Children

Online Safety Bill: What issues does the Bill pose for UK businesses operating online?

Class actions

Prismall v Google UK: grappling with the lowest common denominator of claimant

Cloud Computing

Navigating the future of cloud transformationThe Road to AI efficiency: the trend toward smaller more performant AI and AI at the edgeMitigating the risks of outsourcing IT infrastructure to Cloud Service Providers

Commercial contracts

Managing Supplier Financial Distress – Contractual Protections for CustomersNavigating Contractual Commitment: Unveiling Effort Levels and Qualifying Phrases in Legal Obligations

Copyrights

Another Chinese court finds that AI-generated images can be protected by copyright: the Changshu People's Court and the 'half heart' caseFirst of its Kind – Hamburg Regional Court Ruling on Artificial Intelligence and Copyright in GermanyI, Creator: UK Intellectual Property Office publishes its response to consultation on AI and intellectual property law

Cryptocurrency

Formula 1’s NFTs: A new era in ticketing and digital technologyHong Kong provides long-awaited policy and regulatory updates on virtual assetsPayment schemes in the metaverse – cryptocurrencies and smart contracts

Cybersecurity

Will UK cyber reforms keep step with NIS2?China released new measures for labelling AI-generated and synthetic contentDORA: Navigating the New Era of Digital Operational Resilience in EU Financial Services

Data Governance

Hong Kong released GenAI Technical and Application GuidelineOperational resilience: a look at your contracts and the impact of DORA Navigating the Data Act: What organisations need to know about "smart" products

Data Privacy

Hong Kong released GenAI Technical and Application GuidelineNavigating the legal intricacies of scraping personal data for AI developmentHot Flush: FemTech Solutions for Women's Health

Digital Commerce

German Higher Courts Clarify Strict Requirements for Online Contract CancellationsOnline Choice ArchitectureA Blunted Sword and a Chipped Shield: A call for development to the Computer Misuse Act 1990

Digital Transformation

Becoming the world’s leading AI Continent: The Commission’s “AI Continent Action Plan”For Your AIs Only: Agentic AI Steps Out of the ShadowsThe Digital Networks Act: A new era for EU telecoms regulation

fibre

Project Gigabit: Winter Update 2022Project Gigabit: Autumn Update 2022Project Gigabit: Summer Update 2022

FinTech

Operational Resilience in the UK Financial Services Sector: Proposed 'Critical Third Party' RegulationsTech Index 2022: Pathways to Growth in a Troubled WorldHong Kong provides long-awaited policy and regulatory updates on virtual assets

Future

Art(ificial intelligence) imitates life: IP infringement risks presented by Generative AIChatGPT and competition law: Initial thoughts and questionsThe AI Liability Directive: EU improves liability protections for those impacted by AI

Game theory

Applied Game Theory – the future of procurement?

GDPR

Fundamental Rights Impact Assessments under the EU AI Act: Who, what and how?In defence of synthetic data: how synthetic data can be used as a privacy-enhancing technique during the early stages of an AI system's lifecycle Keeping an ‘AI’ on your data: UK data regulator recommends lawful methods of using personal information and artificial intelligence

General Technology

German Higher Courts Clarify Strict Requirements for Online Contract CancellationsGone in a flash: unravelling the mystery of ephemeral messagingOperational Resilience in the UK Financial Services Sector: Proposed 'Critical Third Party' Regulations

Going Global

Examining potential implications of China's new Anti-Foreign Sanctions LawCOVID-19 and the India services sectorKey legal issues that bear remembering during a pandemic

Hardware

The chips are down – a look into semiconductors and the automotive industryImmeasurably better? Non-digital AI and the regulatory challenge2024: The year that the future arrives

Health Privacy

Hot Flush: FemTech Solutions for Women's HealthRegulate your thoughts: the age of brain-machine interfaces and the neural lace is almost hereAI, algorithms, and accountability: UK government announces world-leading pilot on algorithmic impact assessments in healthcare

HealthTech

Hot Flush: FemTech Solutions for Women's HealthLife sentence: teaching large language models to read the book of lifeA new approach to regulating AI: EU Council announces adoption of a general approach to the harmonisation of AI regulation

Industrial revolution

Serial killers: The massively parallel processors driving the AI and crypto revolutions (fava beans and a nice chianti not required)

InsurTech

Navigating the Open Insurance landscape: A legal perspective for 2023Negotiating InsurTech agreements: checklist

Intellectual Property

Another Chinese court finds that AI-generated images can be protected by copyright: the Changshu People's Court and the 'half heart' caseFirst of its Kind – Hamburg Regional Court Ruling on Artificial Intelligence and Copyright in GermanyA prompt decision: when is instructing a machine enough to claim authorship?

Internet of Things

The Digital Networks Act: A new era for EU telecoms regulationThe Road to AI efficiency: the trend toward smaller more performant AI and AI at the edgeTech Index 2022: Pathways to Growth in a Troubled World

Licensing

Art(ificial intelligence) imitates life: IP infringement risks presented by Generative AIUnwired Planet v Huawei – UK courts can determine global FRAND licensing terms

Media

Art(ificial intelligence) imitates life: IP infringement risks presented by Generative AINew German State Media Treaty enters into force

Mobile Privacy

California ballot initiative passes, significantly altering the California Consumer Privacy ActBeyond the Curve podcast: Impact of the Schrems II decision

Negotiation

Applied Game Theory – the future of procurement?

Open Source

'To the left, to the left: All the IP you 'own' in the box to the (copy)left': Open Source Software issues in M&A transactionsA Blunted Sword and a Chipped Shield: A call for development to the Computer Misuse Act 1990

Patents

Thaler Shut Down: High Court of Australia confirms AI incapable of being an "inventor"I, Creator: UK Intellectual Property Office publishes its response to consultation on AI and intellectual property lawUK consultation on treatment of AI in copyright and patents legislation

Procurement

AI in Public Procurement: Procurement Policy Note (PPN) 02/24 (Improving Transparency of AI use in Procurement)Applied Game Theory – the future of procurement?

Proptech

PropTech Insights: The legal implications of smart buildingsDisrupting the real estate industry: emerging trends in proptechIntroducing our new series, PropTech in the United States – where we're heading

Radiocommunications

Ofcom proceeds with implementing the Wireless Telegraphy (Mobile Repeater) (Exemption) Regulations 2022Ofcom publishes new Space Spectrum Strategy for consultation

Regulatory

German Higher Courts Clarify Strict Requirements for Online Contract CancellationsNavigating the future of cloud transformationThe Digital Networks Act: A new era for EU telecoms regulation

Social Media & Social Networking

China released new measures for labelling AI-generated and synthetic contentAnother Chinese court finds that AI-generated images can be protected by copyright: the Changshu People's Court and the 'half heart' caseOnline Safety Bill: What issues does the Bill pose for UK businesses operating online?

Space

Italy's Chamber of Deputies approves draft law on Space Economics: Legal insightDirect to device satellite services and MSS services: Upcoming regulatory changesUK Government releases new Space Industrial Plan

Strategic Sourcing

Operational Resilience in the UK Financial Services Sector: Proposed 'Critical Third Party' RegulationsManaging Migration and Go Live Risk: Lessons from the TSB – Sabadell MigrationContracting in turbulent times

Technology disputes

The AI Liability Directive: EU improves liability protections for those impacted by AICISGIL v IBM: The Court of Appeal decisionLloyd v Google – Supreme Court Judgment – report and impacts on data protection and mass claims in the UK

Technology Licenses & Transactions

Ofcom consults on more liberal net neutrality guidanceIBM’s planned spinoff of Global Technology Services division raises concernsFive Questions with Victoria Lee: DLA Piper Partner; Global Co-Chair, Technology Sector; and Managing Partner for Northern California and Silicon Valley

Telecoms

German Higher Courts Clarify Strict Requirements for Online Contract CancellationsItaly's Chamber of Deputies approves draft law on Space Economics: Legal insightThe Digital Networks Act: A new era for EU telecoms regulation

Uncategorized

German Higher Courts Clarify Strict Requirements for Online Contract CancellationsThe Digital Networks Act: A new era for EU telecoms regulationDORA: Navigating the New Era of Digital Operational Resilience in EU Financial Services

Women in Tech

FemTech and the use of AIFormula 1’s NFTs: A new era in ticketing and digital technologyInternational Women’s Day 2022: IDB, OECD, and UNESCO Report on The Effects of Artificial Intelligence on the Working Lives of Women