22.01.2025
FILM, MEDIA & GAMING
Playing in the same key – the cooperation between a musician and a manager
One of the key aspects of building a musician’s career in the artistic field is their relationship with the manager. The manager does not only support the artist in organization and promotion but often takes responsibility for financial issues, contracts, negotiations with partners or even manages the artist’s copyrights. This collaboration should be based not [...]
02.03.2022
NEW TECH & INNOVATIONS
Implementing AI-based automation - practical challenges
There is an anecdote circulating in the IT industry and among lawyers dealing with artificial intelligence. A contractor talking about the advantages of his solution focuses on how smart it is and repeatedly refers to the term 'artificial intelligence'. After the presentation, the contracting authority asks if the contractor is following the development of the [...]
05.03.2021
NEW TECH & INNOVATIONS
An EU-centric country with a Kafkaesque discriminatory algorithm targeting its citizens. The story of how a lack of oversight of new technologies brought down the government in the Netherlands.
The technology used by the government to deter social crime and improve the efficiency of government offices can lead to unwarranted exclusion and violations of privacy rights. The Prime Minister of the Netherlands, who resigned from the government as a consequence of a malfunctioning algorithm, experienced this. There has been a lot of public discussion [...]
28.01.2021
NEW TECH & INNOVATIONS
Legal challenges in implementing automation and robotics in the enterprise
Implementing changes in business often poses organizational, financial, and legal challenges. However, the selection and implementation of automation or robotics solutions is a unique undertaking, for several reasons: significant costs, expected impact on business indicators, technical complexity, high customization of the solution, and multidimensional legal aspects of such implementation. This article provides an overview of [...]
21.05.2020
FILM, MEDIA & GAMING
Film production during COVID-19
According to the Ordinance of the Council of Ministers of 16 May 2020 on establishing certain restrictions, orders and prohibitions in connection with the occurrence of a state of the epidemic, the performance of activities by entities producing cinematographic films, video recordings, television programmes (TV series, documentaries) and television commercials and related post-production activities (activities [...]
02.03.2020
NEW TECH & INNOVATIONS
AI - artificial intelligence - is there anything to be afraid of?
There is probably no day for the press not to write about artificial intelligence (AI). AI has become fashionable, some see it as hope, others are afraid of it. And how does AI look from a legal perspective? In recent weeks we have read both about the fact that Alex ("intelligent" Amazon speaker), in response [...]
06.11.2019
PERSONAL RIGHTS AND MEDIA CRISES
Why entrepreneurs should prepare for a change in civil procedure?
6 changes in the CCP with a significant impact on business. 6 reasons to read this article. On 7 November 2019 and 1 January 2020, two amendments to the Code of Civil Procedure will come into force, which will have a significant impact on conducting business in Poland and even on maintaining the financial liquidity [...]
14.08.2019
FASHION, CULTURE & ART
20 years of court battle for two seconds of music - or how to legally sample?
After exactly two decades of dispute between the classics of the German electronic music scene, Kraftwerk and hip-hop producers, M. Pelham and M. Haas, the Court of Justice of the European Union answered the question on the legality of the use of samples. To be exact, on one of the threads important in answering such [...]
08.08.2019
BRAND & DESIGN
Why do we need an industrial design? - case study on pan-European security claims for product design protection
Based on the case study from our intellectual property protection practice, we explain how to secure claims concerning Community designs in the territory of the European Union and how to use EU law instruments in effective protection of product design. LSW recently represented a Client who is one of the largest manufacturers of household appliances [...]
06.05.2019
BRAND & DESIGN
Starbucks mug on the Winterfell table - how did it happen?
The Internet rumbles about the "slip-up" of the creators of the latest episode of the eighth season of the famous series "Game of Thrones". What is it about this time? Well, in one of the scenes set at Starks Castle, Queen Daenerys is ‘accompanied’ by a paper cup from a well-known chain of Starbucks cafés. [...]
19.10.2018
NEW TECH & INNOVATIONS
The law has never kept up with technology
When we talk about new technologies we often intuitively think about the future, the Silicon Valley, technological start-ups. These natural associations are obviously correct but highly insufficient. Leaving aside the philosophical and scientific considerations concerning the nature of the future, with Albert Einstein’s famous statement that the difference between the past, present and future is [...]
05.10.2018
BRAND & DESIGN
The geometric wolf a plagiarism? The copyright dispute over the logotype of the Premiership football club
A trial which may create a great deal of trouble for one of the Premier League clubs has just started in London. After a freshly won Premiership promotion the Wolverhampton Wanderers must face charges of infringement of rights to the Mystery Wolf, which has been the Wolves’ logo almost uninterruptedly since 1979.[1] Everything started in [...]
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