The Pinsent Masons Podcast Pinsent Masons

0'30 Business law news
4'17 Inside an AI company's copyright defence
We look at the arguments being made in a hotly contested court battle between a major media company and a technology company over whether training of the AI system breached copyright law.
6'11 The three main arguments in Stability AI's defence
10'10 The dilemma facing governments: back rights holders or AI developers? They can't have both.

12'48 AI regulation in UK financial services
Financial services are heavily regulated and this will be the case with AI in the future.
13'31 The risks financial services firms need to consider
14'56 companies need to audit their AI use
17'05 the need to work out which individual person is responsible for AI risk in the company
17'34 firms can lean on the processes developed for their movement of operations and systems to the cloud
19'03 there is a growing expectation that senior managers in the UK will be competent to identify and mitigate AI risk.

As nearly half the world's population go to the polls, Andrew Henderson Henderson tells us what it means for companies that want to find out what policies are coming down the track, and maybe influence the direction of future policy-making.
Meanwhile in South Africa a new law taking a stand against anti-corruption comes into force just as a senior government figure is charged with corruption offences. How will the country get past the 'state capture' of the Zuma era and actually enforce the new law? Edward James tells us what's needed.
00:58 Business law news from around the world.
3:06 The world's election year
6:13 What companies want from lobbying governments
7:40 How to gain influence with the incoming, new government
10:02 How to navigate lobbying laws and rules
11:50 What is actually achievable through lobbying?

12:50 South Africa's new anti-corruption law
15:06 Will it work?
16:40 Who will it affect most?
19:20 The outsized influence of the UK's anti-bribery law from 2010

We examine the impact of this landmark ruling from the European Court of Human Rights, which is binding on all 46 signatories to the European Convention on Human Rights.

We look at precedents from other national courts, and at how the law has developed to accommodate human rights-based challenges to governments, regulators and even companies based on their action or inaction on climate change mitigation.
We explore how future challenges might be affected by this ruling.
0:00 Introduction
0:42 News headlines
3:30 Feature on ECHR court rtuling that the Swiss govermnent breaches the human rights of a group of older women by not implementing sufficient climate change mitigation policies.
6:14 Why this case succeeded
7:05 How a 2019 Dutch case laid the groundwork for this ruling
9:27 Each case needs to be specific about who's been harmed and how
11:51 The impact of the judgement in the 46 signatories to the European Convention on Human Rights
14:09 How the ECHR ruling establish

Katherine Metcalfeoutlines the building safety changes facing the UK construction industry from this week, and Zara West and Neil Keenan explore the impact of proposed changes to company law in Ireland. Never miss a story, sign up for business law updates.

Germany is modernising how arbitration works: Sandra Gröschel guides us through the changes. And Emily Swithenbank explains why a court victory for Aldi's own brand cider could change the way companies protect their food and drink products. Never miss a story, sign up for business law updates.

The fund type that could help developing countries with their sustainable development goals, and what one chatbot's mistake tells us about how courts will treat AI in court cases.