Topic: Artificial intelligence

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.

Is the traditional outsourcing agreement, “engineered” for the pre-AI world, suitable in a world in which AI displaces both people and rules-based methods of automation?

In this three part series, Zayed Al Jamil and Holly Tunnah discuss the key points addressed in the New Technologies Formation report and in particular, the potential implications for businesses.

Seiko Hidaka and Will Garton discuss the role of Intellectual Property in a world where the machine is creating new and better things autonomously.

IP Partner Maya Medeiros discusses the applications and legal definitions of artificial intelligence, and where law applies to particular AI processes or systems.

As artificial intelligence becomes more ubiquitous, the scope for economic loss or physical damage – on a B2B or B2C basis - inevitably grows too. James Russell and Paimon Abedi discuss the impact of AI.