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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
17 min · EU · UK · USIs the model the infringement? Memorisation, reproduction and the weights of AI models under European Union law
Two Munich courts have ruled that AI model weights can reproduce memorised works. A causal reading of EU copyright law, tested against the US and UK positions.
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
Is my subsidiary in scope of NIS2?
Is a small MSP subsidiary in scope of NIS2? The answer depends on group-size calculation, linked enterprises, Recital 16, and national transposition.
Beyond the source code: the hidden licensing crisis in open AI
Open-weight AI models are served through cloud intermediaries that preserve licensing obligations in theory but eliminate visibility in practice.
Beyond the source code: your infrastructure vendor changed its licence, and your legal team probably does not know
When infrastructure vendors change their licences, most legal teams miss it. The commercial risks do not reverse when the vendors do.
Beyond the source code: one GPL violation, five compounding legal exposures
How one GPL violation creates five compounding legal exposures: injunctions, damages, moral rights, cross-border claims, and new plaintiffs.
Supply chain email fraud: how NIS2, DORA and the GDPR reshape civil liability
How NIS2, DORA, and the GDPR create statutory cybersecurity benchmarks that strengthen civil liability claims after supply chain email fraud.
Supply chain email fraud: which party pays when the supplier gets hacked?
Supply chain email fraud: which party bears the loss when the supplier is hacked? Cross-jurisdictional analysis across the EU, US, and Canada.
When the Cloud goes down: who really bears the risk?
When cloud infrastructure fails, SLAs rarely protect customers from real economic loss. An analysis of Cloudflare enterprise terms after the 2025 outage.
When does software become “AI”? The EU definition that catches businesses off guard
When does software qualify as AI under the EU AI Act? Four legal criteria that determine regulatory scope, with everyday business examples.
McLaren v Palou: the legal limits of a promise in Formula 1
McLaren v Palou: the English law distinction between enforceable contract terms and pre-contractual misrepresentation in high-value sports negotiations.
Truth can change, history can’t: the legal story behind a 17-Year-old F1 scandal
Massa v FOM: how section 32 of the Limitation Act 1980 keeps a 17-year-old F1 claim alive when deliberate concealment delayed discovery of the facts.
The EU AI Act’s operator model: what every company needs to know before deploying AI
The EU AI Act operator model: when companies become providers of AI systems, and what compliance obligations that triggers under Regulation 2024/1689.
Can copyright survive AI? The legal storm that’s changing everything
How generative AI is challenging copyright law globally. Key rulings in the US, China, UK, and EU on training data, authorship, and ownership.
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