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Legal Group

The Legal Group responds to UK wide and European legislation and consultations and to legal matters globally, including the Cabinet office Consultation on Procurement, and the Google v Oracle Supreme Court Litigation, where it submitted an amicus brief. It is led by Chief Legal Officer, Christopher Eastham

 

 

Documents Published by the Legal Group:

2025

IPO SEP Consultation Response

UK Government’s Call for Views on the Code of Practice for Enterprise Connected Device Manufacturers

DSIT Copyright and TDM Consultation

2024

OpenUK written evidence, House of Lords Communications Committee Investigation into Large Language Models 2023.

2023

House of Lords LLM Report Response

Text and Data Mining Open Letter

Response to US IPO Proposed Rule

2022

Future of Compute Review Call for Evidence Response

Plan for Digital Regulation Plan Response to DCMS

OpenUK’s Response to the UK Government’s Standard Essential Patents and Innovation: Call for views

2021

Cyber Security in Supply Chains and Managed Service Provider Response

US Executive Order 14028 on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity Call for Views Response

Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property: copyright and patents

Data a New Direction Response (OpenUK quoted)

Digital Identity and Attributes Consultation Response

Pro-competition Regime for Digital Markets Unit

EU Shaping the future public sector interoperability policy

Consultation on VAT and the Sharing Economy

UK Government’s Green Paper: Transforming public procurement

Future Founders Report on Cabinet Office Procurement Contract

OpenUK’s Response to the EU’s Consultation on Shaping the Future Public Sector Interoperability Policy

OpenUK’s Response to the UK Government’s Green Paper Transforming Public Procurement

OpenUK’s Response to the UK Government’s 2021 Consultation on VAT and the Sharing Economy

OpenUK’s Future Leaders’ Public Procurement Review

OpenUK’s Response to NTIA request for information on the use of SBOMs

2020

OpenUK submission cited in National Data Strategy Consultation Outcome

EU Joint Report with OSOR on the state of Open Source in UK

OpenUK Amicus Brief in Google v Oracle copyright law suit

The “Brexit effect” on Open Technology

OpenUK’s Oracle v Google Amicus Brief

FOSS4SME OpenUK’s Executive Summary Paper and UK Policy Recommendations

OpenUK’s Response to the UK Government’s 2020 Consultation on the National Data Strategy

2019

OpenUK’s Feedback for The Commission Post Workshop Report

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