14 Mar, 2024 Data scraping: ICO’s first attempt at legal clarity By Lucie van Gils Data scraping or “web scraping” has various definitions but essentially means the process of gathering, copying or extracting information...
26 Feb, 2024 A “missed economic opportunity”: the European Commission publishes its Digital Infrastructure White Paper By Phoebe McGibbon James Cook On 21st February, the European Commission (EC) published a White Paper titled “How to master Europe’s digital infrastructure needs?”. ...
20 Feb, 2024 DSA now fully in force By Catherine O'Callaghan As of 17 February 2024, the EU’s Digital Services Act (“DSA”) is now fully in force for all in-scope intermediary service providers. For...
20 Feb, 2024 Not For Today! UK Government rejects Committee recommendations to address NFT IP concerns By Reinhardt Biermann In October last year, the Culture, Media and Sport (“CMS”) Committee of the UK House of Commons published a report entitled “NFTs and the...
20 Feb, 2024 “I still haven’t found what I’m looking for” – back to square one after UK government abandons voluntary code of practice on copyright and AI By Ioanna Antcheva The UK government confirmed in its recent AI white paper consultation response (more on that here) that the technical working group...
19 Feb, 2024 New boundaries for digital markets? European Commission updates guidance on market definition By Jennyfer Moreau On 8 February 2024, the European Commission unveiled updated guidance on its approach to defining markets when enforcing EU competition...
19 Jan, 2024 UK Supreme Court confirms that AI cannot be an inventor for UK patent purposes By Richard Barker Shortly before Christmas, in one of the most highly anticipated decisions of 2023, the UK Supreme Court confirmed that AI cannot be an...
10 Jan, 2024 NCSC Publishes Guidelines on Secure AI System Development: a Concerted International Approach By Charles MacRae Everyone’s talking about AI at the moment (see our round-up of recent developments here and here). A consensus is building across...
21 Dec, 2023 A “global gold standard”: the UK government consults on proposed measures to bolster the security and resilience of UK data infrastructure By Phoebe McGibbon James Cook The UK government is consulting on proposed regulations to improve the security and resilience of UK data infrastructure, including data...
21 Dec, 2023 Using AI in the transition to net zero By Natalie Donovan Chaya Kupperman Laura Houston The recent explosive growth in the development and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) has dominated conversations in 2023. Part...
21 Dec, 2023 EU opens proceedings against X for possible breaches of the DSA By Catherine O'Callaghan X has become the first company to have formal proceedings for potential breaches of the Digital Services Act (“DSA”) launched against it...
20 Dec, 2023 ANNother patent? Has the High Court paved the way for increased patentability of Artificial Neural Networks? By Issy Spiro Patenting AI inventions is notoriously complex, with budding patentees having to weave a fine line between various exclusions from...
08 Dec, 2023 US Data & Trust Alliance announce first cross-industry standards for data provenance By Richard Barker As AI continues to dominate the headlines, one word that is consistently cropping up is “transparency” - particularly in relation to the...
30 Nov, 2023 Supreme Court confirms Deliveroo riders are not “in employment” By Clare Fletcher Helena Davies Employment status in the gig economy has been under scrutiny for almost as long as the platforms have existed. The original model was one...
28 Nov, 2023 NFTs: CMS Committee highlights scale of potential copyright infringement By Richard Barker Last year, NFTs were everywhere and IP lawyers across the country were grappling to understand their potential impact on IP rights. This...
14 Nov, 2023 OpenAI offers to indemnify ChatGPT customers for copyright infringement By Catherine O'Callaghan OpenAI has announced that it will protect its business customers against copyright infringement lawsuits, following the lead of...