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4 days ago | scl.org | David Chaplin

Amanda Chaboryk, Chris Cartmell, and Stephanie Baker, of PwC, raise some early considerations about the seemingly inevitable spread of agentic AI into legal departmentsIntroductionArtificial Intelligence (AI) has played an increasingly prominent role within legal, starting as early as the 90’s, when legal databases started incorporating natural language processing to optimise search and retrieval.

1 month ago | scl.org | David Chaplin

Chinese courts take a different approach to the issue of AI generating copyright protected images, the DLA Piper team reports. On 7 March 2025, the Changshu People’s Court (in China’s Jiangsu province) announced that it had recently concluded a case on the topical issue of whether AI-generated works can be protected by copyright. In the case, a plaintiff surnamed Lin used the AI tool Midjourney to create an image, and then Photoshop to further refine it.

1 month ago | scl.org | David Chaplin

We have teamed up with the LIDC (International League of Competition Law) to share a series of podcasts examining some of the increasingly pressing questions around cloud computing, AI and competition law. Over seven episodes, recorded in November 2024, Ben Evans, Shruti Hiremath and guests will look beyond the current position to identify some of the pressures the changing landscape will bring to bear.

2 months ago | scl.org | David Chaplin

William Hooper asks: What do lawyers need to know about the assurance of quality in software to contract for it effectively? How do litigators draw on this to prove or defend a claim? His view is that avoiding “system melt-down” seems wiser than dealing with it afterwards. Suppliers test systems to assess whether they do what they should do (functional testing) in a way that meets the customer’s need (non-functional testing). As such, it is the principal approach used to assure quality.

Jan 28, 2025 | scl.org | David Chaplin

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched strategic market status (SMS) investigations in a second area of digital activity: mobile ecosystems. Two investigations into Apple and Google respectively will assess in parallel their position in their respective “mobile ecosystems” which include the operating systems, app stores and browsers that operate on mobile devices.