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TECHNOLOGY TRANSACTIONS, OUTSOURCING, AND COMMERCIAL CONTRACTS NEWS FOR LAWYERS AND SOURCING PROFESSIONALS
Please join us for our fourth annual Artificial Intelligence Boot Camp, during which Morgan Lewis lawyers will discuss the latest developments, insights, and impacts of AI usage and integration for companies of all sizes and industries.
Please join us on Wednesday, February 5, 2025, from 12:00–1:00 pm ET as partners Ksenia Andreeva and Kristin Hadgis and associate Oliver Bell provide a global update on data handling and compliance issues with a focus on the United States, Europe, and the Middle East.
On January 13, 2025, the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced the UK AI Opportunities Action Plan. The AI Opportunities Action Plan outlines the UK’s intentions to become a world leader in artificial intelligence technology for the benefit of private businesses and their customers as well as for all UK residents via AI-enabled public services.
On January 8, 2025, partners Doneld Shelkey, Mike Pierides, and Marina Aronchik presented an Outsourcing and Technology 2025 webinar as part of the Morgan Lewis Tech & Sourcing Webinar Series: Data 2025.
Starting as of Friday, January 17, 2025, financial entities must now be compliant with the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA). Implementation efforts have accelerated in recent months to meet the deadline and in many cases are still ongoing. The European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) published a joint statement last month emphasizing the importance of financial entities adopting a robust, structured approach in order to meet their obligations in a timely manner.
We invite you to join us for Data 2025, our upcoming Tech & Sourcing webinar series. In this series of webinars, our lawyers will consider the key global challenges facing businesses in their use of data.
Contract Corner
How are intellectual property (IP) and data rights allocated when a particular dataset is a key to unlocking a powerful new artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) model or use case? To find a balance, contracting parties may end up trading a black box for Pandora’s box.
As we continue to see AI steadily and increasingly be incorporated into service offerings, businesses should pay special attention to previously “standard” provisions when contracting for the provision and use of services that incorporate AI. This is especially true considering there may be situations where service providers use AI at some point in the workstream without the recipient even realizing.
The widespread technology outage on July 19, 2024 highlighted major potential issues that can arise when service providers rely on technology to provide critical services. The effects of the outage were felt by critical service providers across numerous industries, including airlines, banks, public transit, healthcare, and media. Because we live in a world that is increasingly reliant on technology, if a critical piece of technology fails or introduces a flaw to a system that relies on that particular technology, it can have extreme consequences, as many experienced on July 19.
Telemarketing has long been a favored method for businesses to reach potential clients. However, with the significant evolution of data privacy and consumer protection laws, telemarketing is now intertwined with numerous legal challenges and concerns.