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Navigating the legal landscape

The AI regulatory landscape is changing. As the landmark EU AI Act sweeps into force, businesses need to consider their AI governance processes, ahead of the application in February 2025.

The regulatory framework for AI around the world is expected to continually evolve and grow in complexity.

Our AI hub will help you navigate AI risks, opportunities and regulation, and the legal implications, within the evolving legal landscape.

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AI regulation

As organisations continue with their roll-out of AI, the global regulatory landscape is becoming increasingly complex.

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Publication

Generative AI: A global guide to key IP considerations

Artificial intelligence (AI) raises many intellectual property (IP) issues.

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Insights

Thailand’s New AI Guideline

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).

Thailand | Articles | October 20, 2025

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Global AI, privacy and cyber insights

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.

Australia | Articles | October 16, 2025

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Italy enacts Law No. 132/2025 on Artificial Intelligence

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).

Italy | Articles | October 08, 2025

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California’s Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act

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

United States | Articles | September 30, 2025

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German Federal Court of Justice decision in Sony v. Datel: Its implications for gaming, cheat tools and EU software copyright law

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.

Germany | Articles | September 10, 2025

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Thailand’s draft AI law: A new era for governance and innovation

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

Thailand | Articles | September 10, 2025

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Bartz v. Anthropic: Settlement reached

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

United States | Articles | September 05, 2025

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Pseudonymised data could fall outside data protection law: introducing the “means reasonably likely” assessment

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has delivered its judgment on case C 413/23 P European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) v Single Resolution Board (SRB). The CJEU has confirmed that pseudonymised data will not be personal data in all cases. This will be a welcome confirmation for innovative uses of data, including AI models.

United Kingdom | Articles | September 04, 2025

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Artificial Intelligence at work: Legal issues in French labour law

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly present in our professional lives—whether in recruitment, human resources management, task automation or decision-making. Employees use AI to enhance their efficiency or to assist with repetitive tasks, often without informing their managers.

France | Articles | August 28, 2025

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Explain yourself: The legal requirements governing explainability

Agentic AI brings the promise of AI making a range of decisions autonomously. It has been proposed as the way forward for some of the most impactful decisions in our lives: interacting with customers and actioning requests, triaging requests for medical appointments, and hiring candidates — to name a few.

Global | Articles | August 28, 2025

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Integrating artificial intelligence in M&A processes: A new strategic era – Part 1: Leveraging AI and its advantages

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming established practices in multiple areas across all industries, and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are not immune to this transformation. From the exploratory phase to due diligence, including contract drafting and negotiations, AI enables M&A teams to leverage powerful tools for analysis, automation, and prediction, thus improving efficiency, accuracy, and objectivity.

Canada | Articles | August 14, 2025

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Latest trends in UK technology disputes

Recent insights on the evolving landscape of technology litigation

United Kingdom | Articles | August 12, 2025

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Webinars & Videos

Mastering AI in the Public Sector: What Every Agency Needs to Know

1 CPD Unit | Deepen your understanding of the evolving landscape of artificial intelligence usage in government with this webinar.

Australia | Webinar | April 04, 2024

Substantive Law

S4 EP2 | Undisputed:
A proactive approach to cybersecurity, data privacy and AI

Our digital world is creating more data than ever before.

Canada | Podcast | March 26, 2024

Season 4

The EU AI Act: What obligations will apply to your business?

Political agreement was achieved at the beginning of December but the final texts are not available.

Global | Webinar | January 11, 2024

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Artificial intelligence regulation: What must a business comply with?

An update on UK artificial intelligence (AI) regulatory position and status of the EU AI Act.

United Kingdom | Webinar | November 10, 2023

AI webinars

Employment hot topics: AI discrimination and bias

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being used in the workplace, and, as with any new technology, it comes with both benefits and risks.

United Kingdom | Webinar | April 20, 2023

AI webinars

Session 2: Using smart contracts, computable contracting and AI to innovate: Law and disruptive tech

Some time back Norton Rose Fulbright took a decision to bring on board computer science expertise and a technology consulting function to help our clients maximise the opportunities where law and disruptive technologies intersect.

Global | Webinar | June 21, 2022

Technology Tomorrow

Artificial intelligence and bias

Will AI help us to create a better world – can data solve issues on poverty, mental health, climate change and inequality?

Global | Webinar | April 28, 2022

Events

S2 EP5:
AI and the law

Artificial Intelligence is changing our legal environment. But as machines continue to inform decision making and human interaction, what does this mean for long-established principles such as causation, standard of care, and procedural fairness?

Canada | Articles | April 19, 2022

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AI and robotics: Analysing the legal and ethical issues

Artificial Intelligence is a field of computer science encompassing a number of different aspects including machine learning, natural language processing, speech processing, expert system and machine vision.

South Africa | Webinar | February 09, 2022

AI webinars

AI Regulation of financial institutions: EU and beyond

Regulation of artificial intelligence is on the way in many regions across the globe. The EU Commission has proposed an AI regulation that would apply to financial institutions, and governments elsewhere are considering their own regulatory responses.

Global | Webinar | January 12, 2022

Tech law webinar

EU AI Regulation: What the proposal means for business

The EU Commission has adopted a proposed AI Regulation. As AI proliferates, the Regulation will impact virtually all industry sectors and have far-reaching implications for a wide range of activities, such as product development, procurement, human resources, compliance, governance, IT systems, contracting, and risk management.

Global | Webinar | July 15, 2021

Digital Infrastructure Insights

Tech in Focus

TMT M&A trends: Cautious optimism ahead?

M&A in the technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) sector has remained relatively subdued so far this year, with many of the factors identified in our Spring M&A Outlook having persisted into 2024. However, while dealmaking may not have got off to a racing start, the remainder of the year shows signs of improving market conditions with the potential to prompt increased activity levels during the coming months.

Tech M&A Outlook: Investment and regulatory trends

Earlier this year we looked at trends in M&A investment in the technology sector, highlighting the TMT sector was the best performing sector in 2023 in terms of deal value and volume. The sector has remained fairly subdued this year, but are there signs this could be changing? We explore with our colleagues in the UK, Europe and China the outlook for the sector in their regions, and the impact of regulation on M&A investment in the tech sector.

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the way we work, and as businesses shift more and more of their operations to AI technologies, there are some legal implications that must be considered including regulatory compliance and ethical, commercial, intellectual property and data privacy related issues.

Metaverse

The opportunities within the metaverse are vast, making it essential to understand its complexity and the risks.

Tech Regulation

Insights and resources to help navigate the increasingly complex regulatory tech landscape.

NFTs

What is an NFT and how is it different from a fungible, or any other, token? How can the ownership of a tangible item be represented by an intangible token? Does the owner of an NFT own the underlying object or asset it might represent? Are NFTs regulated and, if so, how?