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    Prohibited practices under the AI Act: Answered and unanswered questions in the Commission's guidelines

    Prohibited practices under the EU AI Act: Key questions answered

    The EU AI Act’s prohibitions came into effect on 2 February 2025 and carry fines of 7% worldwide annual turnover for non-compliance. The prohibitions at Article 5 and accompanying recitals (particularly recitals 28-44) set out a complex set of provisions.

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    The Commission’s guidelines on AI systems – what can we infer?

    The Commission’s guidelines on AI systems – what can we infer?

    The EU’s AI Act imposes extensive obligations on the development and use of AI.

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    EU AI Act: First provisions hit 2 February

    EU AI Act: First provisions hit 2 February

    The EU AI Act’s obligations begin to apply from 2 February. The first obligations to apply are the prohibitions, which ban the provision or use of AI in some scenarios. Fines are up to 7% of total worldwide annual turnover for non-compliance.

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    UK Government consults on copyright and Artificial Intelligence

    UK Government consults on copyright and Artificial Intelligence

    The UK government has issued a new consultation, Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, under which it is proposing to address a tension that exists between:

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    The EDPB Opinion on training AI models using personal data and recent Garante fine: lawful deployment of LLMs

    The EDPB Opinion on training AI models using personal data and recent Garante fine: lawful deployment of LLMs

    The final days of 2024 were very eventful in the world of AI and data protection: the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) published its Article 64 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) opinion on training AI models using personal data (the EDPB Opinion).

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    Data protection and training AI models: Deployers must assess whether the models they use were developed lawfully

    Data protection and training AI models: Deployers must assess whether the models they use were developed lawfully

    The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) was asked by the Irish supervisory authority to issue an Opinion under Article 64(2) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on AI models and processing personal data (the Opinion). The Opinion sets out the EDPB’s answers to the four questions the Irish supervisory authority put to it.

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    Revised Product Liability Directive (introducing rules on strict liability for AI and other software) entered in the EU's statute book

    Directive (EU) 2024/2853 on liability for defective products (the Revised Product Liability Directive) was published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 18 November 2024.

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    Germany: Copyright and ad blockers

    Does a browser plug-in that suppresses advertisements on websites (a so-called “ad blocker”) by manipulating browser-generated data structures constitute an unauthorised modification of a computer program, and so amount to an infringement of copyright under Germany copyright law?

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    Artificial Intelligence: deployment in company secretarial and governance functions

    The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI), including Generative AI, into company secretarial and governance tasks, such as recording or otherwise assisting with board meeting minutes, has the potential to enhance efficiency and productivity.

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