ISDA Digital Asset Derivatives Update
Welcome to the MoFo Tech Blog
MoFo Tech brings together legal insights and in-depth analyses on trends and complex issues shaping the global technology industry, covering fields such as blockchain and distributed ledger, cloud and SaaS technologies, driverless cars, drones, FinTech, computer hardware and software, the IoT, semiconductors, and telecommunications.
- - FintechOn 26 January 2023, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. ( ISDA ) published new standard documentation for the trading of digital asset derivatives (the Digital Asset Definitions ), and a whitepaper titled Navigating Bankruptcy in Digital Asset Markets: Netting and Collateral Enforceability (the... ›
Cryptoasset Firms Marketing to UK Consumers Warned to Begin Preparing for Financial Promotions Regime Now
By: Chloe Kearns
The UK Financial Conduct Authority ( FCA ) has warned cryptoasset firms marketing to UK consumers (including from overseas) to start preparing now to comply with the UK financial promotions regime, which is soon to be expanded to cover most unregulated cryptoassets. HM Treasury... ›Webinar - Responsible AI – Ethical Dilemma Training
By: Alex van der Wolk and Lokke Moerel
The digital revolution transforms business models and presents new privacy issues and ethical dilemmas. Companies deploying AI are often worried about legal compliance. Whether new AI applications are embraced by regulators, society, and customers (and therefore actually generate revenue) depends on ethical considerations rather... ›Are Outputs of AI Models Copyrightable?
By: Evangeline Phang, Tessa J. Schwartz and Aaron P. Rubin
Heather Whitney, Evangeline Phang, Tessa Schwartz, and Aaron Rubin authored an article for Law360 covering whether the outputs of generative artificial intelligence tools are copyrightable. "It may benefit companies that are using and improving AI technology to continuously identify and track the contributions by the company's... ›AI Trends for 2023 - Ethical Technology as Part of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Framework
By: Susan H. Mac Cormac and Oluwabamise A. Onabanjo
Technology is known for solving some of the world’s most complex problems, especially through automation and AI. However, when the right guardrails are not in place, ethical issues arise, such as malfunctioning tools, data or algorithms that exclude certain persons, intrusive technologies that violate... ›AI Trends for 2023 - UK Targets Innovation Not Regulation for AI Sector
By: Alistair Maughan
During 2023, the UK will continue to position itself as a leader in the AI sector — by emphasizing support for the AI industry rather than pushing forward a legislative agenda. In 2022, the UK government published an AI Regulation Policy Paper and AI... ›AI Trends for 2023 - IP Protection for AI-Assisted Technology
By: Stephanie Lynn Sharron
While the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit made clear this year that only humans can be inventors and that an AI program itself cannot obtain a patent (see our prior coverage of Thaler v. Vidal ), this in no way means that... ›AI Trends for 2023 - Budgeting for the Future of AI
By: Erin M. Bosman and Matt Robinson
In 2020, Congress passed the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act (NAIIA) to strengthen Artificial Intelligence (AI) advances and innovations across multiple sectors by providing investments to National AI Research Institutes under the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office (NAIIO). The NAIIA requires the NAIIO to... ›AI Trends for 2023 - Environmental Law
By: William F. Tarantino and Cedar Hobbs
The advent of AI is drastically changing the environmental law landscape. Until recently, it was nearly impossible to track the environmental impacts of corporate activities or products. The sheer immensity and complexity of the numbers shrouded our understanding of environmental inputs and outputs. But... ›AI Trends for 2023 - Public Attention to AI Will Continue to Rise
By: Tessa J. Schwartz
While the use of AI tools is not new, public awareness of, and debate around, these tools will continue to increase as these tools become more widely available. Talk of AI and in particular generative AI is now ubiquitous in mainstream news media and... ›