13 Feb, 2024 The rise of AI: Key legal issues in moving from pilot to pivot By Alex Roberts Artificial intelligence has taken the business and social world by storm since Chat GPT broke on to the scene in early 2023. One year on,...
15 Jan, 2024 On to the next? European Commission launches consultation on competition in virtual worlds and GenAI By Verity Egerton-Doyle Erasmia Petousi You might think that with less than two months to go until compliance with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) becomes mandatory on 6 March,...
07 Jul, 2023 Regulating ChatGPT and the Metaverse for social good: How do China’s first-ever deepfake rules affect AI governance By Alex Roberts Tiantian Ke In line with the global buzz around ChatGPT, mainland China has been taking rapid leaps in AI regulation and governance in recent years....
19 Apr, 2023 Metaverse series #11: The metaverse in Asia – a topic to watch By Jasmine Yung Jennifer Calver In this blog series we have been considering a variety of legal issues that are arising with the development of the metaverse. Given that...
29 Mar, 2023 Metaverse series #10: 3D fashion and the digital revolution of the fashion industry By Jennifer Calver Laetitia Nicolazzi Joshua Klayman Tom De Coster +1 more... Show less In the digital world, the question of what to wear is a complicated one, yet one that designers, brands and consumers are eager to...
10 Mar, 2023 Lessons learnt: are regulators going to move faster to respond to metaverse and AI trends? By Jonathan Ford Anne Dos Erasmia Petousi In a speech delivered earlier this month, Margrethe Vestager repeated the challenges presented by the shift to a digital economy, noting...
02 Feb, 2023 Metaverse series #9: Real estate in the metaverse - oxymoron or a reality of the future? By Hannah O'Malley The first post in this metaverse series explained that the metaverse aims to become a mass interconnected network of virtual spaces,...
12 Jan, 2023 A new year and three new reports for the Tech Sector: Tech Legal Outlook 2023, Fintech Legal Outlook 2023 and Crypto & DeFi By Jennifer Calver Clare Murray As the tech sector faces up to big challenges in 2023, our global cross disciplinary tech and fintech teams have produced three new...
02 Nov, 2022 Metaverse series #8: Metaverse, beware: Competition law is versatile, and the EU's DMA is ‘future proof’ By Violette Grac-Aubert Erasmia Petousi We looked at the metaverse through an antitrust lens in our previous post earlier this year (spoiler alert: the metaverse is not immune...
31 Oct, 2022 Singapore: Lion City set to get tough on online harms By Yang Fan Clara Tung Alex Roberts On 3 October 2022, the Singapore Government tabled a bill seeking to introduce requirements for online service providers, and in...
29 Sep, 2022 Metaverse series #7: DAOs – decentralisation, collaboration and risk management in the metaverse By Jennifer Calver Maximilian Mann Mario Pofahl Even today, Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) have assets under management worth billions of dollars. In the metaverse, DAOs...
22 Sep, 2022 Metaverse series #6: Data in the metaverse – more personal than ever By Guillaume Couneson Jennifer Calver The metaverse refers to digital platforms characterised by virtual or augmented reality, decentralisation, A.I. and blockchain-based...
11 Aug, 2022 Metaverse series #5: Payments in the metaverse – what could metaverse money look like and how might it work? By Jennifer Calver Alex Roberts Simon Treacy Whatever form of metaverse ultimately emerges, it will require huge technological developments in terms of network infrastructure,...
28 Jul, 2022 Metaverse Series #4: IP in the Metaverse - Expanding the reach of intangible rights By Paul Joseph Tom De Coster Bolko Ehlgen Pieter Van Den Broecke Pauline Debré Yohan Liyanage Ian Karet Julia Schönbohm Atif Bhatti Laetitia Nicolazzi Max Walter Kinninger +8 more... Show less As new products and services are introduced into the rapidly expanding metaverse, we look at how IP protection and enforcement strategies...
21 Jul, 2022 Metaverse series #3: Looking at metaverse(s) with antitrust (3D) glasses By Violette Grac-Aubert As we identified in our Tech Legal Outlook 2022, and further explored in our Mid-Year Update, the metaverse is the word on everyone’s...
14 Jul, 2022 Metaverse series #2: Working in the metaverse – emerging employment issues By Laurie Ollivent Sinead Casey Hybrid and remote working have undoubtedly accelerated the use of virtual working for many workforces and whilst the metaverse might...