As with most LLM provider terms of service, Anthropic’s Commercial Terms of Service confirm that when you use Claude Code: Any IP in the output belongs to you, the customer (section B) Anthropic indemnifies the customer against a claim that the output infringes a third party’s IP rights (section K.1). For anyone using Claude Code […]
Read more »04/06/26 – In Part 1 of Making progress with AI governance we looked at the key elements which are likely to form part of an organisation’s cross-functional AI Policy. In this Part 2 we focus on the procurement of an AI system (which could be generative and/or agentic) and consider some of the key questions […]
Read more »21/01/26 – As AI tools and systems scale from evaluations/POCs to live deployments, businesses will want to start thinking about AI governance – putting in place policies, practices and processes
Read more »10/12/21 – On 25th November 2021, the UK Law Commission published its advice to the Government on smart legal contracts. The advice expands on the UK Jurisdiction Taskforce’s legal statement on cryptoasset and smart contracts – see my post here. The Law Commission concludes that current legal principles can be applied to smart contracts in […]
Read more »23/10/21 – Back in 2013 The Software Incubator was appointed by Computer Associates as a sales agent to promote and market Computer Associates’ application service automation software, which was deployed by CA’s customers to manage applications across data centres. The software was downloaded by customers directly from Computer Associates’ servers, subject to a perpetual licence […]
Read more »26/05/21 – The UK Jurisdiction Taskforce (UKJT) received extensive and overwhelmingly positive publicity for the Legal Statement on the Status of Cryptoassets and Smart Contracts that it published in December 2019 – you can read more about the Legal Statement here. On 22nd April 2021 the UKJT published its Digital Dispute Resolution Rules (Rules) which: Give […]
Read more »26/04/21 – The European Commission aims to turn the EU into ‘the global hub for trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI)’. With that objective in mind, on 21st April 2021 the Commission published its Proposal for a Regulation on a European approach for Artificial Intelligence. Very interesting, I’m sure. But presumably not relevant to those of us […]
Read more »12/03/21 – In accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 where any work “is made by an employee in the course of his employment, his employer is the first owner of any copyright in the work, subject to any agreement to the contrary”.
Read more »Issues to consider when drafting, reviewing or negotiating service levels include: Service levels Are uptime service levels measured monthly, or over a different period? (A 99.9% uptime service level measured monthly allows for a single outage of approx. 43 minutes; measured quarterly, that increases to more than two hours.) Are out-of-hours outages dealt with in […]
Read more »10/02/20 – In AA v Persons Unknown [2019], the Commercial Court confirmed that cryptoassets such as Bitcoin can constitute property under English law, and are therefore capable of being subject to a proprietary injunction (i.e. a court order which prevents the defendant from dealing with the relevant property). The judgment refers extensively, and gives considerable […]
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