Topic: Artificial intelligence

On April 21 the EU Commission adopted a proposal for a regulation (the AI Regulation) on artificial intelligence systems, which it describes as “the first ever legal framework on AI.” This briefing explains the scope and impact of the new law.

Businesses are increasingly looking to make substantial changes to realign their supply chains globally, a trend accelerated recently by the global pandemic.

Australia is well placed to advance digital innovation and the embedding of artificial intelligence over the course of the recovery from the pandemic.

Our global comparative piece examines the current state of the law on the patentability of CIIs across a number of key jurisdictions.

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has recently issued its “Guidance on AI and data protection” to assist organisations in determining how they should navigate the complex trade-offs that use of an AI system may require.

On June 2, 2020, the EU Commission (EC) launched two major consultations: one relating to a possible new competition tool to allow the EC to intervene in vulnerable markets without the need to find that any company has violated EU competition law (the Ex Ante Tool Consultation), and the second relating to the forthcoming Digital Services Act package (the DSA Consultation).

This article summarises the AI and Data Package released by the European Commission on 19 February 2020 and discusses the role of EU antitrust reform.

In the second article of this two-part series, we consider whether AI machines should be recognised as the ‘owners’ of the IP create.

In the first article of this two-part series, we explore how existing Australian copyright and patent legislation deals with ownership of AI-generated IP.

The new European Commission is racing to deliver on President von der Leyen’s pledge to put forward legislation on AI, big data, and the New Digital Services Act. This article discusses the EC's response.