Artificial Intelligence (AI) companies such as OpenAI and Google DeepMind may soon need to secure licensing agreements with European rights holders to use content protected by copyright for training generative AI applications like ChatGPT and Gemini. The European Commission aims to develop a licensing market for training data by introducing a robust reservation rights mechanism, enabling rights holders to protect their content from data scraping.

STOP PRESS: Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 amending Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, Regulation (EU) 2018/1139 and Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 as regards the simplification of the implementation of harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Digital Omnibus on AI) was published in the Official Journal on 24 July 2026 and entered into force on 27 July 2026. This Resource Kit will be updated shortly to reflect amendments to Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, the EU Artificial Intelligence Act. For further information on the changes introduced by the Digital Omnibus on AI, see Practice Note: EU Digital Omnibus—tracker and News Analysis: Digital Omnibus proposal—re-writing the EU's digital rulebook. This resource kit contains a list of the key practical guidance available across Lexis+® UK that deals with issues that arise when procuring artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and negotiating AI contracts. It is updated as new content is added. For broader content relating to AI technologies and the legal issues arising from its use in different contexts and sectors, see Practice Note: Artificial intelligence (AI) resource kit. AI procurement and contract resources

MLex: AI developers and copyright holders will see the government’s initiative to resolve a stand-off over the use of copyrighted materials in training artificial intelligence ‘by the end of the year’, the UK’s Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Science, Innovation & Technology, Feryal Clark said. She stressed that ‘whether that is [through] legislation or amendment to a policy, that is yet to be decided’, but she still expected a resolution ‘in the very near future, by the end of this year’.

MLex: AI model providers and right holders are seeing the AI-related commitments in the EU Code of Practice for general-purpose AI (GPAI) further watered down. A new iteration of the text, released on 11 March 2025, makes the commitments proportionate to the size of the provider, removes the requirements to verify the copyright compliance of third-party datasets and limits the possibility to lodge complaints, among other things. The latest draft also introduces significant changes to the transparency requirements.

General-purpose AI model providers like Microsoft, OpenAI and Google will now see softened copyright-related measures in the second draft of the EU’s AI Code of Practice.

Law360, London: Artificial intelligence (AI) will be a 'game changer' for the reinsurance industry as it navigates an increasingly turbulent geopolitical landscape, Swiss Re said in a report 8 September 2025.

MLex: Developers and users of artificial intelligence (AI) systems will be able to use voluntary guidance on how to apply an upcoming EU obligation on AI literacy by the end of 2025, European Commission officials told national governments at a closed-door meeting on 10 December 2024.

MLex: OpenAI, Microsoft, Google and other big AI companies saw the final version of the EU AI Act’s code of practice for general-purpose AI models published today, although guidelines and a data disclosure template are still pending, and it remains unclear whether AI companies will commit without the full picture. The European Commission is informally discussing a potential grace period to ease initial compliance, but its length is still to be confirmed. Some final changes made it into the last version of the text, with mixed results on a crucial part on copyright.

MLex: Draft procedural rules for enforcing the EU AI Act would give the European Commission the power to access and inspect general-purpose AI models, including source code, model weights and hosting infrastructure. The plans also set out independence criteria for experts, introduces five-year limitation periods for fines and enforcement, and would guarantee providers at least 14 days to respond to preliminary findings.

MLex: The European Commission published on 18 July 2025 its guidelines on the EU AI Act’s rules for general-purpose AI (GPAI) models, setting out its interpretation of the provisions’ scope, key concepts and application. The document outlines compute thresholds for defining a model as GPAI, and for when a modification constitutes the creation of a new model. It also explains when a model is considered as placed in the EU market, which models will fall under the open-source exception and how the requirements will be applied to models already on the market.

MLex: The European Commission will issue guidelines on how the EU AI Act interacts with other EU laws such as the EU GDPR, product safety legislation, platform regulations and copyright rules only around the third quarter of 2026—meaning just before or just after the law’s high-risk obligations will take effect. The delay adds pressure on the commission as it weighs whether to pause the EU AI Act’s high-risk requirements.

Introduction The AI due diligence questionnaire in respect of the proposed purchase by [insert buyer name] (the Buyer) of the [entire share capital of [insert name of target company] Limited incorporated in England and Wales under number [insert company number] (the Company) OR [insert description of the business to be acquired] (the Business) as a going concern, together with certain assets used in the Business ] from [insert seller name] (the Seller) (the Project). This questionnaire is primarily intended to enable the Buyer and the Buyer’s professional advisors to obtain information relating to the use of artificial intelligence by the [Company and its affiliates OR within the Business] and to facilitate the collation of the documents which are required for inclusion in the data room (the Data Room) which will be made available to the Buyer. Please provide your answers in italics underneath each question. In addition, please provide copies of all relevant documentation in the Data Room, ensuring that all answers and documents are clearly marked