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From Photoshop to deepfakes: the evolution of fake evidence creation in family law cases
Posted: 17/09/2024
Our experts, partner Rebecca Dziobon, and senior associates Lee Henderson and Eleanor Moodey, consider the recent developments in the production of convincing deepfake material, and the potential implications this could have on the family law sphere. Developments in tech and artificial intelligence are happening at a dizzyingly fast pace......>>
Navigating risk: lessons from the CrowdStrike outage
Posted: 19/08/2024
Whether you are an SME or a large organisation, establishing supply chain resilience is critical, as a business is only as strong as its weakest link. CrowdStrike’s recent faulty technical update caused 8.5 million computers running Microsoft Windows to crash, grounding flights, taking broadcasters off the air and clogging up health systems. CrowdStrike......>>
The lapse of the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
Posted: 04/07/2024
Following the announcement of the general election, the Data Protection and Digital Information (DPDI) Bill has been one of the legislative casualties that was unable to be passed during the ‘wash-up period’. However, given that it enjoyed broad parliamentary support and was nearing the end of the legislative process, it may be reintroduced......>>
Penningtons Manches Cooper advises PointFuse on the sale of its core IP and technology
Posted: 22/04/2024
The corporate team at Penningtons Manches Cooper has advised UK-based 3D mesh software provider, PointFuse, on the sale of its core IP and technology to American multinational software corporation, Autodesk. PointFuse transforms point cloud information into user-friendly segmented 3D mesh models. These models are a crucial component......>>
Are fraudsters (soul)bound to fail? An overview of soulbound tokens and their use in fighting fraud
Posted: 04/04/2024
A recent judgment of the High Court of Singapore has authorised the tokenisation of a worldwide freezing order as a soulbound token (SBT), to be attached to private (cold) wallets associated with fraud via a ‘souldrop’ (largely equivalent to an NFT-airdrop). The SBT, which permanently attaches to the cold wallet, not only serves the court documents......>>
Generative AI in the courts: Getty Images v Stability AI
Posted: 16/02/2024
In January 2023, Getty Images – a ‘pre-eminent global visual content creator and market place’ – commenced legal proceedings in the English High Court against Stability AI, an open-source generative artificial intelligence (AI) company. Getty is alleging infringement of its IP rights in relation to Stability’s deep learning AI model that automatically......>>
DAOs: the future of early-stage, high-growth funding?
Posted: 07/02/2024
Money makes the world go round, as the old adage says. Whether pre-revenue or listed, all companies require cash to operate. However, the way this cash is sourced generally changes over a company’s life cycle. Where later stage companies can self-sustain from revenue, early-stage, high-growth companies do not usually have these......>>
Supreme Court rules that AI system cannot be named as inventor on UK patent
Posted: 10/01/2024
After four years of legal proceedings the UK Supreme Court has now finally settled the question of whether an AI system can be an inventor on a UK patent. In Thaler v Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks [2023] UKSC 49, the court decided that a patent application which names an AI system as the inventor cannot proceed......>>
Penningtons Manches Cooper is advising Cavendish Capital Markets on £10.5 million equity fundraising for SRT Marine Systems
Posted: 29/12/2023
The corporate team at Penningtons Manches Cooper is advising Cavendish Capital Markets as nominated adviser and broker to SRT Marine Systems PLC on a £10.5 million fundraising with existing and new investors, comprising a non-pre-emptive subscription, placing and retail offer......>>
EU AI Act – and a UK AI Regulation Bill?
Posted: 15/12/2023
AI legislation has been much in the news, with the European Parliament and Council of the EU reaching long-awaited political agreement on the proposed European Union Artificial Intelligence Act on Friday 8 December. The last few weeks also saw the UK Artificial Intelligence (Regulation) Bill being introduced as a Private Members’ Bill......>>

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