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UK Data (Use and Access) Bill: copyright clauses finally agreed

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The Data (Use and Access) Bill was finally agreed by the House of Commons and House of Lords on 11 June 2025, in a final round of parliamentary ‘ping-pong’. The Bill is now waiting for Royal Assent. A number of...more

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Hogan Lovells UK AI Summit 2025: Investment, innovation, and the future of AI regulation

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Anchored by two compelling keynote addresses from The Times’ Technology Business Editor Katie Prescott and Emran Mian CB OBE, Director General for Digital, Technology and Telecoms at DSIT, the summit took stock of the...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Commercially Connected Shorts - 14 May 2025

Welcome to Commercially Connected shorts, our weekly bitesize newsletter summarising the latest updates in UK commercial law. This week we look at: - UK-US and UK-India trade deals - Eversheds Sutherland’s global supply...more

K&L Gates LLP

Could This be the Ai-nswer? A Collective Copyright Licence for Generative AI Training

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The Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA), a United Kingdom (UK) not-for-profit, has announced that it is developing a Generative AI (GenAI) Training Licence, and is hoping to publish the licence in the third quarter of 2025....more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

UK’s Collective Licensing Initiative Aims to Harmonize AI and Copyright Law

In a significant move to address the tension between copyright and generative artificial intelligence (AI), the UK’s Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA), Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS), and Publishers’...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Artists Protest AI Copyright Proposal in the U.K.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer wants to turn the U.K. into an artificial intelligence (AI) superpower to help grow the British economy by using policies that he describes as “pro-innovation.” One of these policies...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

What Makes an AI Generated Work “Original”?

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The emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI) products in the past couple of years has significantly increased the capacity for individuals, businesses, and organisations to utilise AI to produce a wide range of...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

AI Takes Centre Stage at the Oscars as the UK Creative Industry Urges Protection of Copyrighted Works

Artificial intelligence (AI) took a lead role at the Oscars on 2 March 2025, with several filmmakers and actors using their speeches to touch on AI’s impact on the industry, in particular the presence of AI-generated content...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

AI News Roundup – Anthropic releases “hybrid reasoning” model, protests against UK AI copyright measures, Huawei improves AI chip...

To help you stay on top of the latest news, our AI practice group has compiled a roundup of the developments we are following....more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

AI News Roundup – U.S. Copyright Office declares generative AI outputs uncopyrightable, U.K. move to open up works for AI training...

To help you stay on top of the latest news, our AI practice group has compiled a roundup of the developments we are following....more

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UKIPO Launches New Consultation on Copyright and AI Interplay

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The UK Intellectual Property Office ("UKIPO"), in collaboration with the UK Department of Culture, Media and Sport ("DCMS") and the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology ("DSIT"), has initiated a Consultation...more

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EU & UK AI Roundup – January 2025

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The second half of 2024 saw a myriad of Artificial Intelligence (AI) related legal and regulatory developments for the EU and UK, critically with the EU AI Act coming into force on 1 August 2024. This has been followed by...more

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The UK Government Signals the "Status Quo" Cannot Continue for AI and Copyright

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“This status quo cannot continue.” With these words, the UK government has made it clear that changes to the AI regulatory regime are on the horizon. The recently published consultation on AI and copyright underscores how...more

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AI and copyright: U.K. launches broad consultation on potential changes

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As foreshadowed in our previous blogpost, the U.K. government has now published a wide-ranging open consultation on AI and copyright. At the centre of the consultation sits the proposal for a text and data mining (TDM)...more

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Training AI models: UK Government consults on proposals for a copyright data mining exception with rightsholder opt-out

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The UK government has published its highly anticipated consultation on copyright and AI. The focus of the consultation is the use of copyright works in AI model training, however, the government is also seeking views on...more

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Global Perspective on Patenting of AI Technologies

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The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies is fueling a surge in global patent filings for AI-related innovations, but differences in national patent laws and examination standards for such inventions...more

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Data scraping for AI development – still no progress in the TDM debate

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Image Alex Shandro It appears that the debate surrounding the UK’s Text and Data Mining (TDM) exception is about to reignite. TDM exceptions are key to assessing the legality of training generative AI models, and to...more

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Zooming in on AI - #5: AI under financial regulations in the U.S., EU and U.K. – a comparative assessment of the current state of...

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Rapid and accelerating developments in artificial intelligence have prompted governments around the world to consider how AI should be regulated and used responsibly by businesses, without stifling innovation. This is...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Timeline Set for UK Cybersecurity and Resilience Reforms

On 30 September 2024, the UK Department of Science, Innovation and Technology announced that the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill (Bill) will be introduced to Parliament in 2025. The Bill was first announced in the King’s...more

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Patent Protection for AI Creations - Landmark decision by the German Federal Court of Justice

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These days, patent courts across the world have to address the question of how to deal with AI-generated inventions. The German Federal Court of Justice ("FCJ") has recently issued a landmark decision (decision of June...more

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English Court of Appeal makes Emotional Perception neural network hard to patent

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There is no special treatment for neural networks when it comes to UK patenting of computer related inventions. That is the essence of the English Court of Appeal’s conclusion, led by a Judge with a keen interest in computer...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

New UK Government Announces AI and Cybersecurity Reforms

Last month the new Labour government in the UK announced in the King’s Speech that it will introduce new artificial intelligence (AI) rules alongside cybersecurity and digital information bills. A brief overview of these...more

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This Summer in Artificial Intelligence: Newly Released USPTO Guidance and Exemplary Worldwide Inventorship Updates

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently published new guidance on subject-matter eligibility as related to Artificial Intelligence (AI), opening a written comment window to respond with a deadline of...more

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AI and the Construction Industry

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Rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have overhauled business models in many sectors. With productivity in the construction industry lagging behind other sectors, does AI present opportunities to innovate and...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Akin Intelligence - March 2024

Welcome to the March edition of Akin Intelligence. This month, the EU AI Act was approved by the European Parliament, moving one step closer to becoming the first major AI law. In the U.S., the DOJ brought criminal charges...more

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