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As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly embedded in our everyday lives, its rapid development is fuelled by the relentless training of large language models (LLMs) on vast datasets.

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A surge in data breach notifications highlights the growing risks businesses face in protecting personal data in an increasingly hostile cyber environment.

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In a significant development for environmental marketing standards in Australia, the Federal Court of Australia has imposed an A$8.25 million penalty on Clorox Australia Pty Ltd after it admitted to making misleading or deceptive claims on the packaging for its "GLAD to be Green" kitchen tidy bags and garbage bags.

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Robot writers and angry authors: Copyright protection for AI books

With the use of artificial intelligence in the publishing process growing and unlikely to stop, a critical question arises – are AI-assisted and AI-generated works protected by copyright?

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Practical strategies for obtaining expert evidence in intellectual property proceedings

As intellectual property law develops through changes to legislation and continued litigation through the courts, and changes to Court Rules and Practice Notes occur, the ways in which experts are instructed and evidence is obtained from them has also needed to change and evolve.

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New standalone legislation for protection of Indigenous cultural and intellectual property

The Australian Government is currently undertaking a scoping study to determine how new stand-alone legislation could help Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to protect and commercialise Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property.

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