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Beijing Internet Court Published Model AI-related Cases – Part II

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By Justin Davidson (HK) & Stanley Ng on March 9, 2026

In Part I of this NRF blog series, posted here, we reported on three AI-related cases published in 2025 by the Beijing Internet Court as being ‘model’ (precedent-illustrating) AI cases. In this article, we continue with the remaining three…

Beijing Internet Court Published Model AI-related Cases – Part I

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By Justin Davidson (HK) & Stanley Ng on March 9, 2026

With the increasingly widespread use of artificial intelligence (AI) in all walks of life, disputes relating to AI are also rapidly emerging. In a press conference last year, the Beijing Internet Court published eight ‘model’ (precedent-illustrating) cases involving…

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Keeping Hong Kong’s registered design system up to date with the modern world

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By Justin Davidson (HK) & Stanley Ng on December 23, 2025

In our previous blog posts here and here, we reported on the Hong Kong government’s efforts to update the Copyright Ordinance to align with the latest technological developments, especially in relation to artificial intelligence. This month, the government released…

Are You Ready for an AI Compliance Check?

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By Justin Davidson (HK) & Stanley Ng on October 21, 2025

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) in Hong Kong conducted compliance checks on 60 local organizations across a wide range of sectors to study their use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its impact on personal data…

Hong Kong Government takes legislative steps to encourage artificial intelligence development

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By Justin Davidson (HK) & Stanley Ng on May 6, 2025

In August 2024, we reported on the Hong Kong Government’s two-month public consultation on potential revisions to the Copyright Ordinance (Cap. 528) (“CO”) in response to developments in generative artificial intelligence (“AI”). The public consultation was…

Turning an AI image into reality, does that infringe in China?

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By Justin Davidson (HK) & Stanley Ng on December 22, 2024

On 27th November 2023, the Beijing Internet Court upheld that an AI generated work can be protected by copyright if the work reflects an author’s choice of expression and has originality (see our earlier blog post here). Almost…

Intellectual property and the digital world

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By Georgina Hey (AU) & Stephen Giles (AU) on October 9, 2024

The digital economy is built around speed, simplicity and more efficient ways of doing things. Data security and privacy is expected but is often negotiable as consumers are enticed to trade private information for efficiency or more attractive offers. In…

The unavoidable trajectory – Hong Kong considers interplay between copyright and artificial intelligence

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By Justin Davidson (HK) & Stanley Ng on August 13, 2024

On 8 July 2024, the Hong Kong government launched a two-month public consultation on potential revisions to the Copyright Ordinance (Cap. 528) in view of the rapid developments in artificial intelligence (“AI”), especially generative AI. The 52-page consultation…

PRC hands down first ruling on AI voice infringement

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By Justin Davidson (HK) & Stanley Ng on August 6, 2024

Over the past few years, the PRC courts have witnessed a significant increase in AI-related disputes (see our previous newsletters here and here). The Beijing Internet Court’s recent decision on an AI-generated voice case further enriches the jurisprudence in…

Who is liable when an artificial intelligence system infringes copyright – a missed opportunity by the PRC Court

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By Justin Davidson (HK) & Stanley Ng on May 9, 2024

In our previous newsletter here, we reported a decision from the Beijing Internet Court ruling that the copyright of a portrait generated by an artificial intelligence (“AI”) program is owned by the user who “controlled meticulously” the parameters for…

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