Workday AI lawsuit receives the greenlight to proceed as a collective action
June 04, 2025
Workday Inc. (Workday) must face a nationwide collective action that could implicate “hundreds of millions of people” who were rejected for employment through Workday.
Generative AI: Updated global guide to key IP considerations
June 02, 2025
Generative AI systems are trained using vast amounts of data, often taken from sources in the public domain that may be protected by copyright or other intellectual property rights. So could training a generative AI system using publicly accessible copyright work constitute an infringement? And could the output infringe?
AI literacy: The Commission’s pointers on building your programme
May 28, 2025
The EU AI Act’s AI literacy obligation applied from 2 February 2025. This applies to anyone doing anything with AI where there is some connection to the EU – to providers and deployers of any AI systems.
Substantiate AI detection claims
May 13, 2025
On April 28, 2025, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) made it clear that any claims about the ability of a tool to detect whether artificial intelligence (AI) generated content need to be substantiated, just like other advertising claims.
Navigating regulatory challenges in data centres
May 01, 2025
Businesses investing in, financing or operating data centres face a complex matrix of laws and regulatory requirements. Ensuring compliance is important for lender and investor due diligence and is crucial to avoiding fines, penalties and contractual or regulatory breaches that can significantly impact the business and any investment in, or financing of, data centres.
New “Sensitive Technology List” to inform Canada’s national security efforts
April 02, 2025
The Minister of Public Safety recently announced Canada’s first Sensitive Technology List (STL). The STL identifies the government’s priority categories of new technologies for regulation to safeguard Canadian national security.
Recent developments on AI in federal government institutions
March 26, 2025
Canada’s proposed artificial intelligence (AI) legislation, the Artificial Intelligence and Data Act, died on the Order Paper earlier this year when Parliament was prorogued. While the future of AI legislation in Canada remains unclear, the federal government remains committed to strengthening Canada’s global position and approach to AI as a leader in the field.
IP monitor: OECD AI paper: IP issues in AI trained on scraped data
March 26, 2025
Developing high-performance generative AI systems and other AI systems based on machine learning often requires access to vast amounts of data for training (AI training data) and improving their accuracy and performance, and data scraping is an approach that is taken to generate large enough data sets.
Asset management: Risk allocation and liability profiles in technology contracts and outsourcings for asset managers
March 19, 2025
Increased regulatory burdens on asset management businesses have resulted in additional cost pressures. However, regulation has also required more pricing transparency, which has led to an increasingly competitive market, with investors demanding either ultra-low cost or increasingly bespoke investment solutions.
What do organisations need to disclose to individuals about AI and automated decisions?
March 10, 2025
Individuals have the right to receive meaningful information about solely automated decisions with significant effects under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This includes decisions that will impact an individual’s finances or employment.