Publication date: January 07, 2026
Intellectual property law plays a key role in protecting creativity and innovation, regulating the use, management, and transfer of rights to works, inventions, and trademarks. In the Polish legal system, these issues are grounded in specific provisions, such as the Copyright and Related Rights Act and the Industrial Property Law, as well as in the general provisions of the Civil Code. The transfer of intellectual property rights, including their transferability, succession, and the form of contracts, raises many practical questions. Can intellectual property rights be transferred under the Civil Code? What are the rules governing their transfer? This article will examine these key issues, including the relationship between the general provisions of the Civil Code and the provisions of specific laws.
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Publication date: January 06, 2026
AI washing as a market phenomenon
AI washing is a phenomenon of growing scale and market significance, whose name and general scope are directly analogous to the well-recognized greenwashing and the less-developed ethics washing. Despite the lack of a single, universally accepted definition, all attempts to define it converge on defining this practice as a marketing tactic. In this context, companies attribute advanced capabilities resulting from the implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) to their products, services, or internal processes, even though the actual level of its application is marginal or disproportionate to the claims made.
These behaviors are often the result of intense competitive pressure from other market players, consumer expectations following technological trends, and internal corporate pressure to achieve rapid profits and project an image as an innovation leader. AI has now become synonymous with progress and, often, profit. This is also due to the lack of a generally accepted definition of AI, although one has now been introduced as part of Regulation (EC) No 2024/1689 laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence and amending Regulations (EC) No 300/2008, (EU) No 167/2013, (EU) No 168/2013, (EU) 2018/858, (EU) 2018/1139, (EU) 2019/2144 and Directives 2014/90/EU, (EU) 2016/797, and (EU) 2020/1828 (the Artificial Intelligence Act) (hereinafter referred to as the AI Act), which will be discussed later in this article. Nevertheless, it is worthwhile to define AI at this stage and how this concept will be understood for the purposes of the upcoming discussion.
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Publication date: January 06, 2026
The use of AI and machine learning solutions in drug manufacturing technologies with the use of machine learning and quantitative, high-throughput in vivo experiments; the EU regulations for advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMP) and the procedures for placing the most modern drugs on the world market by the European Medicines Agency.
The intensive development of medicine affects the medical regulatory law in the European Union, which should cover more and more new legal problems related to the increasingly common application of advanced solutions of artificial intelligence, machine learning, telemedicine solutions and cyber solutions to the technology of manufacturing medicinal products.
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Publication date: January 06, 2026
At the turn of the 21st century, technologies were gaining significant importance. Information technology was the fastest-growing influence on the lives of ordinary people, as more and more services became digitized, automated, and transferred to cyberspace. These included, for example, correspondence and electronic communication, such as email, developed from the mid-1960s to the 1980s. Banking, financial services, were also introduced electronically in the 1970s and 1980s, as were the sharing of works of art and the storage of various data in digital form. These services are linked to key areas of our lives, such as economics, privacy, and security. These same areas also attract criminals of various kinds, many of them members of organized crime groups or terrorist and sabotage groups, but not exclusively. Their activities are referred to, primarily colloquially, as cybercrime. However, this term presents significant challenges in defining its meaning, as it evolves with technological advancements. However, in criminal law, the requirement of legal certainty must be met, linked to the principle that there is no crime without law. For this reason, various attempts are being made to develop such a definition.
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Publication date: January 05, 2026
The Digital Omnibus is a comprehensive draft of two regulations of the European Parliament and Council, the most important part of a broader package of changes to data regulations (especially personal data) and those regulating the digital market in the EU. The changes aim to stimulate innovation and the development of the European artificial intelligence market, and to introduce solutions that could save businesses capital (estimated at up to €4 billion in total by 2029). The changes aim to ensure that businesses of all types, from factories to start-ups, spend less time and money on administration and maintaining the documentation required by current EU regulations.
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