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Firm News 3 results

Firm News | 3 min read | 04.01.24

Crowell Earns Top Rankings in Legal 500 EMEA 2024

Brussels and Doha – April 1, 2024: The Legal 500 Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) 2024 edition has recognized 16 practice areas and 11 lawyers in Crowell & Moring’s Brussels and Doha offices. The 11 individual lawyers received 18 total rankings across the 16 different practice areas.
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Firm News | 2 min read | 06.27.23

Crowell & Moring Wins Two Impact Case Awards at Managing IP EMEA Awards

Brussels – June 27, 2023: Crowell & Moring was honored with two awards: “Impact Case of the Year in Belgium” and “Impact Case of the Year in Europe” by Managing IP. The awards were presented at the publication’s annual IP awards ceremony on June 21, recognizing firms, individuals and companies “behind the most innovative and challenging IP work of the past year, as well as those driving the international IP market.”
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Firm News | 3 min read | 09.02.21

Highly Regarded Intellectual Property Lawyer Sari Depreeuw Joins Crowell & Moring in Brussels

Brussels—September 2, 2021: Sari Depreeuw is joining Crowell & Moring’s Brussels office as a partner in its Technology & Brand Protection Group, expanding the firm’s capability to counsel clients on complex intellectual property matters in the visual arts, digital, and audiovisual sectors.
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Client Alerts 9 results

Client Alert | 4 min read | 03.20.24

The EU AI Act and Obligations for Companies Operating in the European Union

In an era where regulatory landscapes are rapidly evolving, companies with a footprint in the European Union must stay vigilant and adaptable. The EU has recently unveiled a comprehensive set of guidelines that impose fresh obligations on both EU and non-EU based companies operating within its borders. This client alert is the first in a series designed to decode the complexities of the new EU regulations and provide actionable insights for businesses to ensure full compliance[1]. Stay tuned as we unravel the details of these pivotal changes and guide you through the steps your business needs to take to align with the EU's heightened regulatory standards.
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Client Alert | 5 min read | 02.16.24

Notice and Action Mechanisms in the DSA – Balancing the Removal of Illegal Content and the Freedom of Expression

On February 17, 2024, The Digital Services Act (DSA) will become applicable, introducing a new regulatory framework for providers of intermediary services. The DSA will apply to those offering their services to users located in the EU, regardless of the providers' place of establishment. We have discussed the new obligations in our previous client alert, when the DSA was adopted. In this alert, we will focus on the notice and action mechanisms, the positions of the users, intermediaries and the general public.
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Client Alert | 19 min read | 01.31.24

2024: An Overview of New and Upcoming Belgian and EU Laws and Regulations

A number of important Belgian and EU legislative changes are likely to have an impact in 2024. On the one hand, there are new laws that have been adopted and will start to bite, and, on the other, there are proposals that are expected to firm up into law.
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Publications 20 results

Publication | 01.12.24

Overal genAI: een festival van juridische onzekerheid

Event Confederation

Publication | 05.24.23

Copyright in the Metaverse: What Advertisers Need to Know

Retail in the Metaverse and Beyond
The landscape for advertisers and marketers has been shifting in an exciting direction. Over the past decade, industries have firmly embraced multichannel communication and brand building, creating a strategy based on a mix of traditional media and social media, with the persona of the “influencer” as the modern incarnation of brand communication. However, early adopters are on to the next, new universe for connecting with a different, wider, and younger audience around their brands: the metaverse.
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Events 3 results

Event | 03.27.24, 9:00 AM CET - 1:30 PM CET

Hallucinating Deepfakes and Their Human Friends: Life, Love and Law in times of Generative AI

This is an invite-only client event.

Would you replace a human news anchor by synthetic animation? Would you use AI-generated music for a commercial, for a documentary or for a feature film? Would you have an AI tool write a first draft of an article or, inversely, edit and correct human copy? Would you have an AI make the first selection of among hundreds of scenarios? Or would you trust it to pick the ingredients for a hit series? Would you let an AI make trailers and thumbnails of a new series for the socials? Would you have your subscribers chat to an AI to process their complaints?

Event | 04.18.23, 2:00 PM PDT - 7:00 PM PDT

Technology Trends and Predictions 2023: U.S. and Global Perspective

Please join us for a series of panels that will discuss and address the cutting-edge issues in technology impacting in-house legal teams navigating commercial risk and enforcement. This program will tackle important issues from Artificial Intelligence (AI) to antitrust, and from privacy issues to SEC regulatory schemes. Moreover, we recognize that many of the current, as well as future issues have an international component. Our presenters will provide companies with critical information not just on U.S. law and issues, but also touch button issues in Asia and Europe.

Event | 09.19.22 - 09.23.22, 4:00 AM CDT - 2:00 PM CDT

Academy of European Law's Summer Course on European Information Technology Law

Crowell & Moring Partner Sari Depreeuw, a partner in Crowell & Moring’s Brussels office and a member of the firm’s Technology & Brand Protection Group, will be speaking at this year's Academy of European Law's Summer Course on European Information Technology Law, taking place in Trier, Germany on September 19-23. Her presentation, "The EU Legal Framework for Data, Big Data and Databases," will take place on September 22nd at 1:30 p.m. (local time).
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Webinars 5 results

Webinar | 03.26.24, 12:00 PM CET - 1:45 PM CET

Get Your Act Together: The AI Act is Coming!

In this webinar, we will start with a general overview of the AI Act, the first horizontal legislation worldwide to regulate the safety of AI-systems, before moving to a few focal points.

Webinar | 02.22.24, 4:00 PM CET - 5:30 AM CET

Fourth Webinar of “Exploring the U.S. Market Webinar Series”: Regulating the Use of Artificial Intelligence - An Early Exploration of the EU and USA Legislative Initiatives

In the fourth installment of the series, our speakers will cover the legal and regulatory landscape surrounding the use of AI technology. This landscape spans from the AI Act in the EU to the complex legal framework in the US, where the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the federal and state governments are having their say.

Webinar | 05.11.23, 12:00 PM CEST - 2:00 PM CEST

AI-Powered Chatbots: Mythical Super Creature or Legal Trojan Horse?

In collaboration with IBJ
With ChatGPT 4, the world saw for the first time what AI-powered chatbots are capable of: writing a love poem, drafting a geography presentation or explaining the principles of patent law so a 4 year old can understand, anything seems within reach. No wonder that time-strapped workers would consider outsourcing part of their assignments to these user-friendly robots.
However impressive the technology, organisations are reluctant to adopt AI-based solutions for gathering information and generating new content, such as logo’s, texts or images. The data set used to train the algorithms are notoriously unknown, the output may be unreliable or infringing third party rights.

Blog Posts 5 results

Blog Post | 06.02.23

AI-Powered Chatbots: Mythical Super Creature or Legal Trojan Horse

Crowell & Moring’s Retail & Consumer Products Law Observer

Blog Post | 09.21.22

The EU Data Strategy: Part 4 – New Intermediaries to Facilitate DataSharing

Crowell & Moring’s Data Law Insights

Blog Post | 09.14.22

The EU Data Strategy: Part 3 – B2G and G2B Data Sharing

Crowell & Moring’s Data Law Insights