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An online travel agent who allegedly “screen scrapes” Ryanair’s website information is also abusing the airline’s “literary works” by doing so, it has been claimed in High Court proceedings.

Thursday, March 4, 2021 The Law Reform Committee (LRC) of the Singapore Academy of Law (SAL) established a Subcommittee on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence to consider and make recommendations regarding the application of the law to AI systems. The LRC is considering whether existing systems of law, regulation, and wider public policy remain “fit for purpose,” given the pace and ceaselessness of change of the AI field. The LRC published two reports in July 2020, one report in ...

The essential protection of software stems from intellectual property rights, primarily copyright.  When the United Kingdom left the European Union, at a superficial level nothing changed, because the essence of copyright is based on International Treaties.  All the countries within Europe, and indeed most of the world have signed up to those International Treaties, which to a large extent harmonise the law of copyright globally.  There was little scope for change just because the...