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The EU AI Act: What Businesses Need To Know

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 6/27/2024

The newly approved Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act or the Act) aims to create a secure and trustworthy environment for the development and use of AI in the European Union....more

Understanding How Generative AI Can Affect Your Business' Data Privacy And Ownership Is Crucial

Rumberger | Kirk on 5/13/2024

“In assessing a generative AI product, it is critical to understand issues of data ownership and privacy. This cumbersome task is necessary to learn how the AI platform will use data, if the data shared is entering an open or...more

Shaping the Digital Future: The Newly Adopted EU Data Act and Its Impact

McDermott Will & Emery on 2/9/2024

In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, the European Union’s Data Act (Data Act), adopted on November 27, 2023 marks a significant shift in data, privacy, and intellectual property regulation. The Data Act applies to...more

AI in Europe: Road Map for Navigating the IP, Data Protection and Regulatory Considerations

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 9/19/2023

Organizations developing or using generative AI tools should implement cross-functional governance frameworks to develop and continuously monitor their use of such tools. From the earliest stages of generative AI use,...more

Data Scraping, Privacy Law, and the Latest Challenge to the Generative AI Business Model

ArentFox Schiff on 7/18/2023

In a putative class action filed on June 28, 2023, in the Northern District of California, and in other similar cases, plaintiffs allege that OpenAI, Microsoft, and their respective affiliates violated the privacy rights of...more

ChatGPT Throws Wrench into Europe's Attempts to Regulate AI

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP on 5/1/2023

After using a large language model, such as ChatGPT, for a while, it is not hard to image an array of nightmarish scenarios that these generative artificial intelligence (AI) programs could bring about. While ChatGPT and its...more

New possibilities for data : European Union legal developments

Hogan Lovells on 12/23/2021

The EU has moved up a gear in recent times, and it is producing new legal tools for companies to maximize the possibilities to collect and make use of data (including personal data) in the context of its European Strategy for...more

Data Governance Act. Blowing away barriers to accessing data held by public entities

Hogan Lovells on 11/2/2021

The European Union has already enacted several Directives to allow (or mandate) the possibility for companies to access and re-use the data held by EU public administrations in the European Union. However, in many cases this...more

Life Sciences and Health Care Horizons - 2020

Hogan Lovells on 2/26/2020

We are pleased to provide you with the third annual installment of our Life Sciences and Health Care Horizons guide. For each of these guides, we have asked our industry thought leaders throughout the world to write about...more

The EU Copyright Directive: Potential Copyright Liability and a “Best Efforts” Standard for Platforms

Fenwick & West LLP on 1/27/2020

In 2019, the Council of the European Union’s Committee of Permanent Representatives approved a Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market to respond to developments in the modes and markets for creation, production...more

Life Science International Review Q3 - Nov. 2019

Morgan Lewis on 11/21/2019

Welcome to the Q3 2019 issue of our Life Sciences International Review. This issue covers new developments within Europe, Asia, and the United States in intellectual property, regulatory, pricing, and international trade,...more

Analyzing the impact of the EU GDPR on access to WHOIS data, one year on

Hogan Lovells on 6/3/2019

During the Annual INTA 2019 Meeting, a panel was held on the EU General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) and the temporary removal of data for the WHOIS directory. IPMT Partner David Taylor spoke on the following GDPR issues...more

IPunkt | IP auf den Punkt gebracht - Januar 2019

Hogan Lovells on 2/1/2019

MARKENRECHTSMODERNISIERUNGSGESETZ (MaMoG) ZUR UMSETZUNG DER EU-MARKENRECHTSLINIE 2015/2436 TRITT IN KRAFT - Am 14. Januar 2019 trat die Novellierung des Markengesetzes durch das MaMoG in Kraft, mit der eine Reihe von...more

Connected Cars and Autonomous Driving—EU Antitrust Challenges (Part II)

Jones Day on 9/7/2018

The Background: The automotive industry has achieved a number of technological advances aimed at developing connected cars, automated vehicles, and ultimately autonomous driving. These innovations are expected to pose a...more

10 Tips for Online Brand Enforcement and Policing Post GDPR

Fenwick & West LLP on 7/18/2018

You’ve just learned someone registered a domain nearly identical to yours, or is using your brand online to sell similar products or offer related services. What do you do? A few months ago, you probably would’ve checked who...more

A New Month, A New Compliance Deadline In The European Union: What Businesses Need To Know About The EU Trade Secrets Directive

Orrick - Trade Secrets Group on 6/21/2018

Just days after the European Union’s widely-discussed new data privacy regulations, the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), took effect on May 25, 2018, another EU-wide legal change quietly occurred. ...more

GDPR touches DN transfers: Changes to inter-registrar transfer procedure call for extra vigilance

Hogan Lovells on 6/1/2018

As a result of the obscuring of the WHOIS details for many registrants’ domain name records that has come in the wake of the entry into force of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on 25 May 2018...more

Future of the Automotive Sector in Europe, China and the United States

Foley & Lardner LLP on 4/25/2018

Given the pace of change in the automotive industry and related technologies, combined with increasing regulatory scrutiny, what risks and challenges can the global automotive industry expect to deal with in 2018 and beyond...more

Brexit Considerations for Business Contracts

Dechert LLP on 2/14/2018

With just over a year to Brexit, slated for 11.00 p.m. on 29 March 2019, it is time to ensure that your house is in order contractually. By ensuring that your business contracts are in the best possible shape and...more

What IP Practitioners Should Know About GDPR And Personal Data Protection In Europe

Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the... on 1/24/2018

In the European Union (“EU”), “everyone has the right to the protection of personal data concerning him or her” under the Charter of Fundamental Rights. Intellectual property is also protected as a fundamental right under the...more

Brexit 2018: The Final Preparations

Dechert LLP on 1/8/2018

2018 is the year that the UK and EU will look to finalise their Brexit deal; to settle the trading arrangements for what could be a lengthy ‘transition period’; and start discussions on the shape of their future long-term...more

Hogan Lovells academic all-stars debate hot tech topics

Hogan Lovells on 3/28/2017

On 17 March Hogan Lovells hosted a live webinar where several of our Global TMT thought leaders interviewed a panel of academic experts from our Law and Technology Academic Advisory Council on the key legal and tech trends...more

DSM webinar highlights tax, competition law, copyright, AVMS and data economy issues for 2017

Hogan Lovells on 2/10/2017

In a February 7, 2017 webinar, the Hogan Lovells Digital Single Market (DSM) team presented its take on new developments for 2017. Peter Watts introduced the session by warning that the loss of the UK voice in EU policy...more

DSM Watch: European Commission's data package explores data ownership, localization, liability and portability, highlighting...

Hogan Lovells on 1/13/2017

On January 10, 2017, the European Commission released a Communication, a fact sheet, a working document and a public consultation relating to Europe’s “data economy”. The fact sheet states that “data is a new type of...more

Client Alert: Brexit – What Silicon Valley Needs to Know

Fenwick & West LLP on 7/5/2016

The vote of the UK Electorate to leave the EU has politicians, economists, lawyers and commentators from all sectors speculating on what will happen next and over exactly what period. While it is unlikely that there will be a...more

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