AI update – will the EU AI Act get agreed next week and what’s happening in the UK?
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 members bill. Most recently headlines have suggested that plans to agree the EU AI Act before Christmas could... Read more.
What you need to know about the new EU Data Act.
Following a political deal between the Council and the European Parliament (EP) on 27 June 2023 and formal adoption by the EP on 9 November 2023, the Council formally approved the EU Data Act, on 27 November 2023, clearing the final hurdle for the... Read more.
Supreme Court confirms Deliveroo riders are not “in employment”.
Employment status in the gig economy has been under scrutiny for almost as long as the platforms have existed. The original model was one of self-employment, but this has been challenged successfully in many cases, including most notably in Uber v... Read more.
NFTs: CMS Committee highlights scale of potential copyright infringement.
Last year, NFTs were everywhere and IP lawyers across the country were grappling to understand their potential impact on IP rights. This year, we’ve heard very little about them. Until now. A few weeks ago, the House of Commons Culture, Media and... Read more.
UK government publishes responses to consultation on the Computer Misuse Act 1990.
Cyber continues to be a key threat for both organisations and governments. The UK government has been considering for some time whether to update its cyber laws, and recently published the results of a consultation initiated in February 2023,... Read more.
UK signs joint statement against ransomware payments – “New norm” or status quo?
On 2 November 2023, the UK government announced that it and more than 40 countries had signed a Joint Statement strongly discouraging the payment of ransomware demands and pledging that central government funds should not be used to pay ransoms to... Read more.
OpenAI offers to indemnify ChatGPT customers for copyright infringement.
OpenAI has announced that it will protect its business customers against copyright infringement lawsuits, following the lead of Microsoft, Google and Amazon, who already offer customers such protection in relation to their generative AI... Read more.
What can we learn from the UK’s AI Summit?
The UK held the world’s first AI safety summit last week at Bletchley Park – a location famous for codebreaking (it was where Alan Turing’s team famously broke the Enigma code in World War II) and which is often linked to the birth of modern... Read more.
