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AI is transforming business and industry virtually overnight, and many leaders are left asking, “What do I do next?” Womble Bond Dickinson’s virtual summit – AI Intensive: Playbook for Innovation and Risk Mitigation – will...more
“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
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
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
In a landmark decision, a German district court recently decided that copying images to create a data set that can potentially be used for training generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems does not infringe German...more
On 8 July 2024, Hong Kong's Commerce and Economic Development Bureau (“CEDB”), along with the Intellectual Property Department (“IPD”), released a public consultation paper on copyright and artificial intelligence (AI)...more
On September 27, 2024, the Regional Court (Landgericht) of Hamburg, a court of first instance (the “Court”), dismissed a cease-and-desist claim by the photographer Robert Kneschke against LAION e. V. that the scraping of his...more
The highly anticipated EU Artificial Intelligence Act is finally here! With extra-territorial reach and wide-reaching ramifications for providers, deployers, and users of Artificial Intelligence (“AI”), the Artificial...more
ChatGPT and similar generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools rely on large language models (LLMs). LLMs are fed massive amounts of content, such as text, music, photographs and film, which they analyze to discover...more
Generative artificial intelligence (“GenAI”) challenges EU copyright law, from the AI training to the protectability and liability risks of its output. The EU’s forthcoming AI Act takes first steps towards AI-specific...more
The government has announced it will come up with a new code of practice to replace an earlier approach that faced opposition from the creative sectors. Latham previously reported on the UK government’s proposal to...more
A proposed broad copyright exception for text and data mining that favours AI developers is unlikely to be welcome news for rightholders. On 28 June 2022, the UK government published its response to its consultation on...more
Spurred by the vast potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies, many countries are evaluating whether existing legal frameworks for intellectual property (IP) protection are adequate or...more
1. Zusammenfassung - Nach langer Debatte traten am 07.06.2021 die Änderungen am Urheberrechtsgesetz (UrhG) und am Verwertungsgesellschaftengesetz (VGG) in Kraft. Am 01.08.2021 wird außerdem das sog....more
Agreement on a compromise text for the new Copyright Directive was reached between Member State government representatives, EU Parliament representatives and the EU Commission last week. ...more
After a long and intense debate – including several postponements – the Committee of Legal Affairs of the European Parliament (JURI) finally agreed on its position on the draft DSM Copyright Directive. Of course, the plenary...more
On 25 May 2018, the European Copyright Society (ECS) hosted a very informative and encouraging conference on the current status quo of the pending copyright reform. ...more
Reform of EU copyright is the core of the Commission’s Digital Single Market strategy. Various legislative initiatives have been proposed but the “heart” of the reform is without a doubt the proposal for a new copyright...more
“Web scraping” or “web harvesting”—the practice of extracting large amounts of data from publicly available websites using automated “bots” or “spiders”—accounted for 18% of site visitors and 23% of all Internet traffic in...more