5/20/2026 4:18:30 PM UK government responds to House of Lords’ report on copyright and AI By Lily Latimer Smith On 15 May, the UK government published its response to the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee’s (CDC) report on “AI,...
5/14/2026 9:19:14 AM Unpacked: Patents Court determines FRAND terms for Samsung-ZTE global cross-licence By Richard Barker The English Patents Court has determined the terms of a global FRAND (Fair, Reasonable And Non-Discriminatory) cross-licence between...
3/16/2026 3:04:05 PM Are the winds changing on the AI and copyright debate? By Richard Barker As readers of this blog will be aware, the rapid development of AI over the last few years has given rise to a number of significant...
2/13/2026 8:54:22 AM Emotions run high in UK Supreme Court as Aerotel approach rejected By Richard Barker On Wednesday, the UK Supreme Court handed down its highly anticipated decision in Emotional Perception v Comptroller General of Patents,...
2/5/2026 9:42:55 AM Effective geo-blocking is a bar to communication to the public in blocked territories, says AG Rantos By Lily Latimer Smith Advocate General (AG) Rantos has opined that websites using effective geo-blocking to restrict access to copyright-protected works in...
12/19/2025 1:09:10 PM High Court grants Getty permission to appeal copyright aspects of Gen AI claim By Richard Barker The UK High Court has granted Getty Images permission to appeal certain aspects of the court’s findings in Getty’s copyright infringement...
11/25/2025 5:17:00 PM Gen AI and copyright in Europe – Munich Regional Court seeks to determine the rules of the playing field By Richard Barker Issabella Cardu In the recent Getty Images v Stability AI decision, the UK High Court rejected Getty’s claim for secondary infringement of UK copyright...
11/5/2025 5:53:56 PM BREAKING: UK High Court hands down decision in Getty Images v Stability AI By Richard Barker Yesterday, the UK High Court handed down its highly anticipated decision in Getty Images v Stability AI. The headline is that Getty’s...
10/16/2025 8:32:36 AM Copyright infringement risks in training Generative AI By Richard Barker The launch of ChatGPT in 2022 sparked a surge in both the popularity of, and investment in, generative AI technologies. Fast forward...
8/4/2025 12:48:57 PM Just in time! EU AI Office publishes template for summarising GPAI training content By Richard Barker Following hot on the heels of the General Purpose AI (GPAI) guidelines and Code of Practice (see our commentary here, here and here), the...
7/16/2025 11:48:39 AM Mining the copyright chapter of the GPAI Code By Richard Barker The final version of the EU’s General Purpose AI (GPAI) Code of Practice was published on 10 July, after a two month delay. As we...
5/15/2025 9:14:41 AM Go compare! Court of Appeal confirms comparables approach for assessing FRAND royalties By Richard Barker The Court of Appeal has confirmed, in Optis v Apple, that a conventional comparables-based approach should be adopted by the English...
5/9/2025 11:57:26 AM AI Act deadline missed as EU GPAI Code delayed until August By Richard Barker As readers of this blog will know, the final version of the EU’s General Purpose AI (GPAI) Code of Practice was due to be published by 2...
4/16/2025 10:32:38 AM Copyright and the third draft of the EU GPAI Code By Richard Barker As we’ve previously reported on this blog, the third draft of the EU’s General-Purpose AI Code of Practice was published on 11 March. ...
2/19/2025 8:45:01 AM Geo-blocking in the spotlight: European Commission launches evaluation of legal framework By Jennyfer Moreau Calum Scott On 11 February 2025, the European Commission announced the launch of its evaluation of Regulation (EU) 2018/30 on geo-blocking (the...
2/4/2025 10:14:00 AM How to train your GPAI model: a first look at the EU’s data summary requirements By Chaya Kupperman The European AI Office has recently unveiled its preliminary proposals on the template for the summary of training data that...