UK Parliament – AI and copyright oral evidence session. The Culture, Media and Sport Committee held an oral evidence session on ‘AI and copyright’, hearing from stakeholders on how AI affects creators, platforms and consumers. The session focused on training data, remuneration and enforcement options, and how future UK copyright and AI policy might strike a balance between innovation and protection for rights-holders.
Law Society of Alberta – Generative AI Playbook for legal professionals.The Law Society of Alberta has published ‘The Generative AI Playbook’, offering guidance to lawyers on terminology (AI, LLMs, generative AI), risk categories and professional-conduct expectations when using tools like ChatGPT in client work. The playbook stresses confidentiality, competence, supervision and transparency as key duties implicated by AI use.
Regulation
European Commission – AI Act whistleblower tool launched. The European Commission has launched a confidential whistleblower tool for the AI Act, allowing individuals to report suspected infringements by AI providers or deployers directly to the Commission. The mechanism is designed to complement national market-surveillance authorities, protect whistleblowers from retaliation and support enforcement of obligations on high-risk and general-purpose AI systems.
Australia – New national AI Safety Institute announced. The Australian Government has announced the creation of the Australian AI Safety Institute within the Department of Industry, Science and Resources. The Institute will develop testing and evaluation approaches for high-risk AI systems, support international coordination on AI safety standards and provide technical input into Australia’s emerging AI regulatory framework, building on previous interim risk-management measures.
EDPS – TechSonar 2025 and AI-related data protection risks. The European Data Protection Supervisor has released its TechSonar 2025 foresight report, flagging AI-enabled technologies (including generative models and synthetic data) as key emerging risks for EU institutions and bodies. The EDPS also trails its 2026 Data Protection Day conference on whether to “reset or refine” data protection practices in light of AI, signalling continued scrutiny of AI’s compatibility with Regulation 2018/1725 and EU fundamental-rights standards.
ALDE Party. International (policy politics) – Renew Europe backs “balanced” Digital Omnibus. The Renew Europe group in the European Parliament has publicly backed a “balanced” Digital Omnibus package that streamlines EU digital rules, including aspects of GDPR and AI-related obligations, while insisting that data-protection and fundamental-rights safeguards must not be diluted.
Cases
Justia - Baron App, Inc. d/b/a Cameo v OpenAI, Inc. (TRO on AI branding). Coverage today highlights the temporary restraining order granted by the Northern District of California in Baron App, Inc. d/b/a Cameo v OpenAI, Inc. et al (Case No. 5:25-cv-09268-EKL). The order, issued on 21 November, bars OpenAI for now from using the ‘Cameo’ mark in connection with its Sora video product and sets an expedited schedule: further evidence from the claimant by 1 December, opposition by 5 December, reply by 12 December, and a hearing on 19 December 2025.
The Verge - RealPage algorithmic pricing settlement with US Department of Justice. Technology and legal media report that the US Department of Justice has agreed a proposed settlement in its antitrust case against rent-setting software provider RealPage, accused of facilitating landlord collusion through algorithmic pricing. Under the deal, RealPage would be restricted to using rental data at least 12 months old, required to remove or redesign features that pressure landlords to match competitors’ prices, and barred from offering hyper-localised pricing based on competitors’ confidential information. The settlement, which follows earlier Greystar and state-level actions, underscores enforcement attention to AI-driven price-setting tools.
Deepfake video evidence as the “next frontier” for courts. Legal Futures reports on a Californian case where a judge struck out a claim after finding key video evidence had been generated or manipulated using AI, describing obvious artefacts in expression, lip-sync and looping. The piece highlights the growing risk that UK and EU courts will need explicit evidentiary rules, technical capacity and procedural safeguards for AI-generated evidence, particularly in cases involving self-represented litigants.
Juries, Inc. v Sheu – AI jury-simulation trade secrets dispute. Reuters reports that Juries, Inc., an AI-driven jury-simulation startup, has sued its co-founder in US federal court, alleging that he misappropriated trade secrets, diverted clients and exported confidential AI modelling assets to a rival venture. The complaint reflects heightened litigation risk in AI startups over ownership of training data, model architectures and client-specific analytics, with potential implications for investor due diligence and non-compete / confidentiality drafting.
Academia
Nature. npj Health Systems – AI, IP and human rights in European health systems. A new open-access article in npj Health Systems, ‘Artificial intelligence, intellectual property, and human rights: mapping the legal landscape in European health systems’, is published today. The authors synthesise 53 laws and treaties across international, EU and national levels to chart how IP and related rights (patents, trade secrets, regulatory exclusivities, database rights) apply to AI training datasets, models and outputs in health systems, and how these interact with health-focused human rights instruments. The study highlights tensions between IP-based control, transparency requirements (including in the AI Act and European Health Data Space Regulation) and equitable access to AI-enabled healthcare, calling for solidarity-oriented approaches to risk- and benefit-sharing.
Business
Daily Business Magazine – ASA’s AI-driven ad monitoring and compliance risk. Daily Business Magazine describes how the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has embedded an AI-based Active Ad Monitoring System into its enforcement toolkit. The system captures and filters large volumes of online adverts, targeting higher-risk sectors (for example, health claims, age-restricted products and financial promotions). According to ASA figures cited in the piece, 94% of 33,903 ads subject to enforcement last year stemmed from proactive AI-based monitoring. The article warns advertisers that AI-enhanced regulatory scrutiny will increase the likelihood of non-compliant ads being detected and that future regulatory changes (such as new restrictions on “less healthy” food advertising) are likely to be enforced with these AI tools from day one.
Adoption of AI
ASA – Proactive AI use in UK advertising enforcement. The ASA’s deployment of its Active Ad Monitoring System illustrates how regulators, not just businesses, are adopting AI at scale. The AI tool enables thematic sweeps (for example, alcohol advertising on social media) and supports project-based enforcement campaigns aimed at sectors where consumer harm is more likely. This shift from complaint-led to proactive, data-driven supervision is a concrete example of supervisory authorities integrating AI into regulatory practice, with implications for how firms document compliance and monitor their own marketing outputs (Daily Business Magazine).
Professional conduct – Generative AI guidance as a driver of structured adoption
The Law Society of Alberta’s Generative AI Playbook shows how bar associations and law societies are beginning to codify expectations around AI use: it frames responsible adoption as requiring clear policies on data use, client consent, supervision of AI-assisted work and training for lawyers. Such guidance contributes to a “soft-law” environment that will shape how legal professionals worldwide integrate AI tools alongside formal regulation (Law Society of Alberta).
Events
Kennedys – Data protection and AI regulation in the UK and EU 2025: a year in review (webinar). Kennedys will host a webinar on 11 December 2025 analysing key UK and EU data-protection and AI regulatory developments over the past year and their implications for organisations operating across both jurisdictions.
European IP Helpdesk / European Commission – EU Webinar: AI Act. The European IP Helpdesk is running an ‘EU – Webinar: AI Act’ on 10 December 2025 (10:30–12:00 CET), offering an overview of AI Act requirements with a particular focus on intellectual property and compliance for innovators and SMEs.
NQA – ISO/IEC 42001 AI Governance webinar. NQA is hosting ‘Inside the AI Governance Journey: Leadership Insights and Perspectives on ISO 42001’ on 12 December 2025 (11:00 UK time). The session will explore how organisations can implement the AI management-system standard, focusing on governance, risk controls and assurance around AI deployments.
OneTrust – Global AI regulation: what’s now and what’s next (webinar). OneTrust is promoting a webinar on 4 December 2025 on global AI regulation, comparing enacted and emerging frameworks (EU AI Act and developments in the US, Latin America and Asia) and offering practical advice for aligning AI governance and privacy programmes.
Takeaway
Today’s developments underline a shift from abstract principles to concrete enforcement and governance mechanisms. The EU and Australia are building infrastructure (whistleblower channels, safety institutes) to operationalise AI rules, while regulators like the ASA quietly retool with AI-driven supervision. At the same time, courts and litigants are probing algorithmic pricing, trademark use and evidentiary deepfakes, and scholarship is starting to map the dense intersection of AI, IP and human rights in specific sectors such as health.
Sources: UK Parliament, Legal Futures, Law Society of Alberta, European Commission, Renew Europe, Australian Government (Department of Industry, Science and Resources), European Data Protection Supervisor, npj Health Systems (Nature Portfolio), Daily Business Magazine, Reuters, Law360 and other legal media, The Verge, Engadget, Nevada Current, Justia