After what seems like forever, the most recent (and last?) public comment period for the draft California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) regulations finally closed on February 19, 2025. (Read Privacy World coverage here and here.)
Following an initial public comment period on an earlier draft, the formal comment period for the current version of
Part one of this blog covered the new requirement for company directors (including trustee directors) and persons with significant control to verify their identity with Companies House. They will be able to do this voluntarily from 25 March 2025 (the week during which national cocktail-making day, national cleaning week and international waffle day will be
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In October 2024 we reported on the case of Kompakwerk GmbH v Liveperson Netherlands B.V. [CL-2018-000802] which concerned the question of whether an agent selling access to end users in Great Britain to a third-party software as a service (SaaS) product should be considered an agent for the purposes of the Commercial Agents (Council Directive) Regulations
The European Commission has recently released its Guidelines on the Definition of an Artificial Intelligence System under the AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689). The guidelines are adopted in parallel to commission guidelines on prohibited AI practices (that also entered into application on February 2), with the goal of providing businesses, developers and regulators with further
The authors wish to thank Sumaiyah Razzaq for her contributions to this post.
Ever since the emergence of generative AI, a major concern for all participants has been the extent to which copyright works can and should be used in training AI models.
The application of UK copyright law for this purpose is disputed, leading
In what may turn out to be an influential decision, Judge Stephanos Bibas ruled as a matter of law in Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence that creating short summaries of law to train Ross Intelligence’s artificial intelligence legal research application not only infringes Thomson Reuters’ copyrights as a matter of law but that the copying
Since the Trump 2.0 administration commenced, the U.S. federal government has experienced some major policy shifts. Several Biden-Harris administration era regulations are now eliminated or on a 60-day hold while under review. States and other organizations have filed lawsuits to stay implementation of certain Trump 2.0 initiatives (i.e., the funding freezes, deferred resignation offer
On January 23, 2025, President Trump issued a new Executive Order (EO) titled “Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence” (Trump EO). This EO replaces President Biden’s Executive Order 14110 of October 30, 2023, titled “Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence” (Biden EO), which was rescinded on January 20, 2025,
Members of the Senate Commerce Committee have demonstrated an early bipartisan interest in continuing to promote U.S. supply chain resilience, highlighting an avenue for bipartisanship in the Trump Administration’s foreign policy agenda.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tennessee) has partnered with Democratic colleagues as an original cosponsor on the reintroduction of two pieces of legislation aimed at