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Voice Cloning as a Global New Technology and its Challenges for EU and Polish Law

Siri, Cortana, Google and other applications use human voice to do a variety of things, e.g. searching for information, sending emails, calling somebody. Voice-based technologies are increasingly applied in legal environment and legal services, for example in legal advice rendered online and in legal translations. At the same time, new applications of innovative technologies caused the necessity to define the approach to privacy issues anew. The cases of Edward Snowden and Julian Assange showed us how meaningful privacy and its protection is and made us realize the excessive amount of personal data processed and stored daily. This is why privacy and its protection will soon become one of the most important personal rights. The issue of voice protection comes to the fore in this context. Voice is, obviously, a personal right. What is more, voice is becoming a tool used by most applications both for mundane activities as well as more complex ones, like ROSS AI operating on IBM’s Watson, which can do legal research and is learning to understand law with every research conducted by it. What if it was possible for such applications as Watson to use the voice of a specific lawyer and, with the use of voice sample, produce speech of a different content, for example in the form of legal advice? Well, practically it is possible, since last November Adobe presented Adobe VoCo to the world, which (when having a voice sample) is able to read various content differing from the conent sampled. The present article will try to shed some light to the issue of the risk involved with voice cloning technology in legal environment and will analyse whether law can adequately protect human voice as a personal right.

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Online seminar about legaltech area

KG Legal participated in an online seminar organised by a specialist in software engineering for business information systems from Munich who operates within the program LEXALYZE (interdisciplinary research program). The seminar involved the recent solutions in legal tech area.

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32nd Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference – IPLSPRING

KG Legal was invited to IPLSRPING – a conference organised by American Bar Association. The IPLSPRING was held from 4 to 6 April, 2017 in Arlington. Some interesting issues were discussed during the conference, for instance preparing a patent for litigation before it’s issued or effective use of border enforcement mechanisms and blocking injunctions in the US, Canada, and the EU.

KG Legal is the member of the ABA, in the Intellectual Property Law section.

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Hannover Messe – the largest industrial fairs in Europe has started

Hannover Messe takes place from 24 to 28 April 2017. German Chancellor and Polish Prime Minister opened the fairs. Poland is the partner country, therefore KG Legal develops cooperation with Hannover Messe exhibitors.

If you are interested in fairs you can visit Hannover Messe official website: http://www.hannovermesse.de/home

Photo from website: http://www.visit-hannover.com/en/Trade-Fairs-Conventions/Upcoming-Trade-Fairs-Hannover/Hannover-Messe-Service

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Mobile IT Kraków 2017

Besides legal services KG Legal participates in various IT industry events. That is why we visited Mobile IT 2017 fairs in EXPO Kraków on the 22nd February. Mobile IT are the largest fairs from IT sector in Kraków. The fairs featured the subject of e-commerce, mobile applications and new technologies. It was a great occasion to meet new people and establish business contacts.

We publish short videos and photos from event below.

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