Topic: Artificial intelligence

Thailand’s legal sector, both the courts and the Lawyers Council, is beginning to develop frameworks, standards and guiding principles for AI utilization by lawyers and the judiciary that aim to maximize public benefit while ensuring transparency, accountability and the preservation of human decision-making authority.

The Regional Court of Munich (LG München I) has issued a landmark judgment in GEMA v OpenAI (Case No. 42 O 14139/24), holding that the use of copyrighted song lyrics for training generative AI models without a licence violates German copyright law.

The judgment was passed down on 4 November 2025 in Getty v Stability AI, the UK’s first case on infringement of intellectual property by generative AI.

Thailand is once again moving forward with AI regulation in an effort to establish a comprehensive framework for the use of artificial intelligence in the country. On 1 October 2025, the National Cyber Security Agency, the agency under the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society, published the “AI Securities Guideline” (the Guideline).

Exploring the impact of AI was a key focus at two global conferences held earlier in 2025: the IAPP Global Privacy Summit in Washington DC, and the RSAC Conference on Cyber Security in San Francisco.

On September 23, 2025, Italy adopted Law no. 132/2025 on Artificial Intelligence (AI). The law will enter into force on 10 October 2025 and aims, inter alia, to complement the Regulation EU 2024/1689 (EU AI Act).

California has enacted the Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act (Cal. SB 53).

Cheat software has long been a thorn in the side of game publishers. But does it also constitute a copyright infringement? In a landmark decision, issued on July 31, 2025, the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) ruled that cheat tools that merely manipulate in-game variables in RAM - without altering the program code - do not violate software copyright under EU law.

Thailand is advancing its efforts to establish a national, comprehensive framework for artificial intelligence, with new draft legislation currently under consideration.

Plaintiffs say Anthropic used pirated e-books for Claude LLMs.