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...
13 Mar, 2024 Are you ready for the EU AI Act? Final vote in the European Parliament passed today By Natalie Donovan The EU AI Act has passed one of its final hurdles before becoming law. While provisional political agreement on the Act was reached...
13 Mar, 2024 ICO Consultation Series on Gen AI: Second Call By Reinhardt Biermann The ICO has launched its second call for evidence as part of its consultation series on data privacy and generative AI. The ICO’s first...
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...
08 Feb, 2024 New AI rules on the horizon for GenAI? UK Government response to AI white paper By Natalie Donovan The Westminster government confirmed this week that the UK “is on course for more agile AI regulation.” We’ve known for some time that it...
29 Jan, 2024 GCHQ warns that AI will increase the global cyber threat By Natalie Donovan The UK’s national cyber security centre (NCSC), part of GCHQ, has warned that AI will likely increase the global ransomware threat over...
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 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...
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...
20 Dec, 2023 High Court refuses to throw out Getty Images’ IP infringement claim against generative AI provider Stability AI By Catherine O'Callaghan As 2023 draws to a close, generative AI remains a hot topic. Not only can you now look the term up in the dictionary, but we also have...
15 Dec, 2023 EU AI Act agreed as UK says it won't legislate until timing is right By Natalie Donovan After months of fierce debate, political agreement was finally reached on the EU’s landmark AI Act on 8th December 2023. Ursula von der...
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 AI update – will the EU AI Act get agreed next week and what’s happening in the UK? By Natalie Donovan The last few months have been a busy time for AI Regulation - from the US Executive Order, to the UK’s AI Summit (see blog) and private...
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...
06 Nov, 2023 What can we learn from the UK’s AI Summit? By Natalie Donovan The UK held the world’s first AI safety summit last week at Bletchley Park – a location famous for codebreaking (it was where Alan...