Iveta Yuskeselieva
Technology Legal Counsel
Difficult legal questions, answered.Software licensing, AI regulation and cybersecurity liability across the EU, UK and US.
I am a technology lawyer with sixteen years at the intersection of software, IT and commercial law. The hardest questions sit on the line between the legal department and the engineering team.
A contract sits on one side of that line, and source code, dependencies and system architecture sit on the other. Most lawyers are fluent in one of those languages. My work has been learning to read both, and this site is where I think through the questions that cross the line.
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Three pieces, depending on what brought you here.
If you are trying to work out whether a rule applies to you at all
Is my subsidiary in scope of NIS2?
If you are fairly sure your company is not using AI
When does software become “AI”? The EU definition that catches businesses off guard
If there is open-source code anywhere in what you sell
Beyond the source code: one GPL violation, five compounding legal exposures
Beyond the
Source Code
Exploring the legal questions that software licensing has yet to answer.
Chardet: clean rooms, copyleft and the AI rewrite problem
Chardet 7.0.0 was rewritten by AI and released without copyleft. Across the US, EU and UK, the rewrite likely escapes the LGPL: and that may be the real problem
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Is the model the infringement? Memorisation, reproduction and the weights of AI models under European Union law
Is my subsidiary in scope of NIS2?
Beyond the source code: the hidden licensing crisis in open AI
Beyond the source code: your infrastructure vendor changed its licence, and your legal team probably does not know
I don't simplify
difficult legal questions.
I answer them.
Across jurisdictions. Across borders.
If you are working through one of these, I would be glad to hear about it.
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