In the third session of the four-part Developments in IP Law series on 22 February 2024, legal practitioners and policymakers gathered at the Suntec City Convention Centre for an update on regulations and judicial decisions relevant to Breach of Confidence/Privacy & Data Protection. The series is jointly organised by IPOS and the EW Barker Centre for Law & Business at NUS Law.

The popular Developments in IP Law series moves past its first decade milestone on 23 January 2024 as the 11th edition features a roundup of copyright decisions in 2023. The EW Barker Centre for Law & Business (EWBCLB) at NUS Law continues its partnership with IPOS International for this marquee event at the Suntec City Convention Centre.

TRAIL is pleased to present its fourth edition of the TRAIL Year In Review, which is its annual report of the kaleidoscope of activities and publications in 2023. Stable Diffusion has been used, with retouching in Adobe Photoshop, to create its unique cover that depicts the iconic Marina Bay Sands building with four pillars signifying the fourth issue of TRAIL’s report.

Professor David Tan represented TRAIL at a panel discussion at the Singapore Pavilion of the Asia TV Forum & Market (ATF) on 7 December 2023 comprising industry leaders and entrepreneurs. The ATF is a significant trade fair event focusing on the entertainment industry in Asia and is held annually at the Marina Bay Sands Expo & Convention Centre in Singapore.

In SLATE V (Seminars on LAw and TEchnology series) on 22 November 2023, Professor David Tan discusses whether existing copyright doctrines can adequately address the issues arise from the generative AI applications such as ChatGPT, DALL·E and Stable Diffusion and to what extent the Singapore Copyright Act 2021 is equipped to deal with these challenges. The seminar covers: (i) copyright infringement in both the input of works to train generative AI and the AI output in response to human prompts and commands; (ii) how the computational data analysis exception and open-ended fair use provision are likely to apply to these scenarios.

On 13 September 2023, TRAIL and AI Singapore jointly hosted Professor Anu Bradford’s lunchtime talk on her new book titled Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology, published by Oxford University Press, at the NUS Kent Ridge Campus. Professor Bradford outlined the strengths and limitations of three regulatory models adopted by the United States, Europe and the People’s Republic of China, and framed the debate as a battle between techno-democracies and techno-autocracies.

On 15 May 2023, Professor David Tan, Co-Director of TRAIL, joined an illustrious panel of practitioners to discuss how the metaverse hype has affected the development of trademark laws, including registration, infringement and dilution.

On 14 March 2023, the Centre for Legal Innovation and Digital Society (CLINDS) Faculty of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), partnered TRAIL in organising the Metaverse Law Conference at its Graduate Law Centre on the second floor of the Bank of America Tower in Hong Kong. The conference examined emerging issues associated with the metaverse in different fields of law, that included contract law, property law, intellectual property, data protection, consumer protection and financial law.

Professor David Tan, Co-Director of Centre for Technology, Robotics, AI & the Law, participated in the 10th Developments in IP Law series in 2023.

TRAIL is pleased to present its TRAIL Year In Review 2022, which chronicles its milestones in the past year. TRAIL Year In Review 2022 showcases our research works on law and technology as well as the collaborations with other researchers and research institutions.

The Centre for Technology, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and the Law (“TRAIL”) put out a call for proposal on 20 September 2022 inviting interested scholars to bid for a grant to conduct research on privacy and data protection issues arising from the metaverse. Here is the list of successful grant proposals.

TRAIL signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre (OIPRC) that establishes a formal link in order to further the academic purposes of the centres, including but not limited to carrying out high quality research in all aspects of national, international, transnational, and comparative law relating to technology, robotics, and artificial intelligence; promoting research activities involving academics, practitioners, and policymakers; and encouraging early career researchers in the relevant fields.