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New EU tech laws coming online
Not to be too repetitive, but if you do business or vacation in the EU, you’re under the auspices of the EU’s technology laws. Three EU tech rules are coming into force in 2025 and 2026, some of which may affect you or a client. Here they are:
AI Act: The EU AI Act, which sets out harmonized AI rules, came into force ... (full story)
Detecting AI usage in a document
With the use of chatbots in creating documents kicking into some kind of high gear lately, you have a pretty good chance of reading a legal document that has some AI content in it.
This could happen either when someone on the other side writes a brief or when, despite your best efforts, someone in your office is using Chat GPT t ... (full story)
Recent court decisions re: the DMCA and AI web scraping and extraction
Here is another installment of “old laws applied to new tech.”
When several news organizations sued Open AI for violating copyright laws through their use of web scraping, some of the complaints also alleged violations of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA), the late 2990’s addition to copyright laws tha ... (full story)
ABA issues first official opinion on generative AI
In 2023, the American Bar Association formed a committee of experts to try to make sense of, and provide guidelines for the use of, generative artificial intelligence in the legal environment.
In late 2024, that committee published its first set of guidelines. As we know, these don’t have the force of law. However, they do ... (full story)
Harvard helps an Amish sect sue the state to end Ohio’s taillight law
Sometimes the intersection of law and technology looks like the farthest out-there science fiction/horror film.
And sometimes it has a much less modern sheen.
To some Ohio Amish sects, technology that is even as simple as a buggy taillight can be seen as an infringement on their religious freedom.
And recently, the Hol ... (full story)