Legal Work Group Chaired by Christopher Eastham
- Joint Report with OSOR on state of Open Source in UK published July 2020
- Amicus Brief Google v Oracle submitted March 2020
- FOSS4SME and letter to MP’s shared January 2020
- International Treaties – supported Brexit Trade Agreements
- Response to new Legislation – ongoing
- Tools and Education – ongoing
- Joint Events planned with Society of Computers and Law
The group works in a proactive and reactive way, looking at necessary and forward looking policies and areas of change as well as responding to proposed legislation in the UK and beyond.
Legal Group Members
See our Legal Group MembersText and Data Mining Open Letter
UK open source advocates, including OpenUK, are urging the government to ensure AI technologies have ample access to public data to aid the development of the UK AI sector. OpenUK is a signatory of the joint letter highlighting the issue and provided a proposal for a code of practice to guide AI IP legislation supporting TDM.
Open Letter