6/13/2025 8:51:26 AM UK finalises data reforms: what businesses need to know By Giles Pratt Rachael Annear Tristan Lockwood Adam Gillert +1 more... Show less On 11 June 2025 Parliament passed a Bill that will shortly gain Royal Assent and become the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (the DUAA)....
2/25/2025 4:54:46 PM BSH v Electrolux: long-arm jurisdiction of EU member state courts for cross-border injunctions in patent litigation By Eva Acker Corin Gittinger Allard van Duijn Today, the ECJ issued the long-awaited judgment in BSH v Electrolux. As expected in our last post, the court has taken a major step to...
2/21/2025 5:51:54 PM Will cross-border injunctions become the norm in European patent litigation? By Eva Acker Corin Gittinger Allard van Duijn European courts have taken different approaches to cross-border injunctions in patent cases for many years, despite the harmonising...
2/17/2025 3:31:20 PM Getty v Stability AI – Green light given for representative action under CPR 19.3 By Emma Probyn Christine Simpson Phoebe Campbell Dr. Christopher Stothers Alexandra Morgan +2 more... Show less The High Court has now ordered that Getty Images (Getty) may pursue its claim against Stability AI (Stability) as a representative action...
2/11/2025 4:11:30 PM The Responsible AI Forum 2025: Companies are facing growing regulatory and litigation risks over the use of AI, and not just from the new laws grabbing the headlines By Giles Pratt Freshfields is a Knowledge Partner on the Responsible AI Forum 2025, hosted at Spencer House by Tortoise Media, in partnership with the...
1/30/2025 1:26:17 PM Getty v Stability AI: Class definitions in representative claims under the lens By Dr. Christopher Stothers Emma Probyn Christine Simpson Alexandra Morgan Phoebe Campbell +2 more... Show less The High Court has rejected a proposed representative action brought by Thomas M. Barwick, Inc (Barwick), on behalf of c.50,000...
1/13/2025 12:29:25 PM Will UK copyright law permit greater use of online content for AI? A summary of the UK IPO’s consultation on AI and copyright. By Giles Pratt Zofia Aszendorf Joseph Mason Jade Bryant +1 more... Show less The UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has launched a consultation on proposed changes to copyright law in the UK. The consultation...
12/13/2024 2:39:10 PM AI Regulation Is Evolving Globally and Businesses Need to Keep Up By Beth George Giles Pratt Lutz Riede This article was first published on Bloomberg Law on 10 December 2024. Freshfields’ attorneys examine generative AI’s global...
11/27/2024 9:57:20 AM Transposition of press publisher’s rights into national law: A story of gold-plating? By Lutz Riede Oliver Talhoff Nicolai Fornoff Verena Kirchmair +1 more... Show less Introduction Initially, the introduction of a new neighboring right for press publishers on the EU level through Article 15 Digital...
9/25/2024 4:24:53 PM New era for European compulsory licensing on the horizon? By Victor Garcia Lopez Corin Gittinger On 26 June 2024, just days before the end of the Belgian presidency, the Council of the EU adopted its position on a proposed regulation...
5/24/2024 6:05:54 PM Self-proclaimed creator of Bitcoin found to have lied by English court: Crypto Open Patent Alliance v Wright By Emma Probyn Christine Simpson George Ho Jason Hu +1 more... Show less Background Since 2016, Dr Craig Wright, an Australian computer scientist, has been asserting intellectual property rights against...
4/5/2024 6:32:03 PM The AI Act: Calling for global compliance with EU copyright? By Lutz Riede Oliver Talhoff Matthias Hofer In an earlier blog (here) we dissected the copyright framework for text and data mining under the EU Copyright Directive (Directive...