Emma Hewins looks at the questions of creativity, authenticity, control and how creators can assert ownership as AI generated music takes hold “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”Maya Angelou Maya Angelou’s words still explain why music matters: it is more than entertainment,…

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Winona Chan sets out the fundamentals of legal privilege and how to protect it when using generative AI tools. Generative AI (GenAI) is now embedded in day-to-day business workflows, from drafting documents to analysing information and summarising meetings. For in-house legal teams, this raises a critical question: how can legal professional privilege be preserved when…

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A team from Norton Rose Fulbright run through some of the novel issues advisors need to consider now so many outsourcing projects involve the use of AI Traditionally, IT outsourcings (ITOs) and business process outsourcings (BPOs) have been centred around the delivery of services by personnel with clear service descriptions and performance requirements and may…

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What are the principles that underpin an effective expert report? What practical considerations help to ensure it withstands scrutiny? At what points do instructing solicitors interact with it? In the next in a series on expert witnesses, William Hooper sets out what he thinks makes a good one. In modern dispute resolution, whether in the…

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Indraneel Basu Majumdar highlights the common law similarities between the UK and emerging crypto regulations in two Gulf regions – Abu Dhabi and Dubai – and how those advising could factor them into their advice Introduction As stablecoins and tokenised assets move from speculative trading into mainstream settlement and collateral workflows, businesses are increasingly “jurisdiction…

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A team from Lewis Silkin round up the latest guidance from arbitral institutions on the use of AI Artificial intelligence has already transformed how the legal profession operates, including in research, data analysis and document preparation through platforms (such as Harvey used by our own firm, Lewis Silkin). However, as Dame Victoria Sharp observed in Ayinde…

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Gareth Davies is inspired by the Greek philosopher when engaging with AI. There’s no shortage of advice on how to prompt AI: be clear, provide context, identify your audience, specify the format. Useful, but incomplete. For lawyers, prompting isn’t just a technical problem. It’s also a professional one. The danger isn’t silence; it’s receiving an…

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