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Overview
Utilization of artificial intelligence (AI) is now essential and not optional for all industries and sectors. While AI technology is rapidly evolving, legal issues arising therefrom are also becoming more challenging and complex. Against such backdrop, there is a growing need for companies engaging in the AI industry to proactively counter and deal with convention legal issues (i.e., license, data security and intellectual property right) as well as dispute and compliance issues (i.e., overseas regulations, privacy, and fairness & transparency of AI algorithm).
Yoon & Yang’s AI Center is comprised of attorneys with legal expertise in AI technology, who offer quality advisory services for large-sized IT companies at home and abroad as well as the AI industry in general. The AI Center also is actively involved in formulating strategies in line with the introduction of various regulations and participating in the legislative process, not to mention advising clients on ways to ensure safety and credibility in the AI development phase. In particular, based on ample experience and accumulated knowhow in areas related to finance, insurance, intellectual property, and entertainment, the AI Center provides comprehensive legal advisory service and presents optimal solutions for client companies that provide AI service and use AI on a wide range of legal issues.
Going forward, the AI Center will continuously commit to offering customized legal service in line with the evolving AI industry landscape through combining AI technology and legal expertise. Furthermore, the AI Center will open a new prospect in the field of AI-related legal advisory service based on continued research of frequently changing domestic and overseas laws.
Yoon & Yang’s AI Center is comprised of attorneys with legal expertise in AI technology, who offer quality advisory services for large-sized IT companies at home and abroad as well as the AI industry in general. The AI Center also is actively involved in formulating strategies in line with the introduction of various regulations and participating in the legislative process, not to mention advising clients on ways to ensure safety and credibility in the AI development phase. In particular, based on ample experience and accumulated knowhow in areas related to finance, insurance, intellectual property, and entertainment, the AI Center provides comprehensive legal advisory service and presents optimal solutions for client companies that provide AI service and use AI on a wide range of legal issues.
Going forward, the AI Center will continuously commit to offering customized legal service in line with the evolving AI industry landscape through combining AI technology and legal expertise. Furthermore, the AI Center will open a new prospect in the field of AI-related legal advisory service based on continued research of frequently changing domestic and overseas laws.
Key Services
- Relevant services using AI such as finance, insurance, intellectual property, entertainment, and chatbot
- Regulations and legislations related to AI, personal information, intellectual property right, and trade secret
- Disputes related to AI learning data and derived intellectual property
- AI-related privacy regulations, disputes and compliance issues
- AI-related regulations of the EU and US, and compliance issues
- Introduction of AI service
- Overall regulatory matters related to privacy, intellectual property right, and trade secret prior to implementation of AI service
- AI service investigation by regulatory bodies (i.e., Personal Information Protection Committee and Korea Communications Commission)
- Issues related to personal information protection and leakage related to AI service
- Non-solicitation of AI specialists
- Introduction of new AI technologies and relevant disputes
- Foreign AI & IT client companies on tapping into the Korean market
- AI service using cloud computing (i.e., Aws and Azure)
- AI service use (i.e., OpenAI, Clova, and Claude)
- Cloud service (i.e., hosting and computing) necessary to provide AI service
- Corporate legal matters including M&A and labor management issues
- Various issues related to personal information, data protection, compliance, and certifications for AI service providers
Representative Cases
- Advised a client company on clouding, healthcare, personal information and privacy issues
- Advised a client company on legal issues to consider in case where developers use the copilot
- Prepared the report on medical acts using AI together with the AI Legislation T/F Team
- Established criteria for defining and regulating high-risk AI and prepared report on high-risk AI for the AI Legislation T/F Team
- Prepared the report on accountability of AI illegal acts for the AI Legislation T/F Team
- Substantiated high-risk AI issues in certain fields for the AI Legislation T/F Team
- Represented NIA in researching top-seven legislative bills on AI and prepared relevant report
- Handled the task of supplementing the draft bill on fostering AI industries and establishing trust for the National Information Society Agency (NIA) and the Science, ICT, Broadcasting and Communications Committee
- Prepared the report on analysis of AI law for the NIA
- Handled the task for NIA in comparing and analyzing the US Algorithmic Accountability Act of 2022 and the AI Law (draft) submitted to the National Assembly
- Advised the Ministry of Science & ICT and the NIA relating to AI-based statistics of the OECD and each country
- Prepared the research report on the domestic and overseas autonomous vehicle industry for the Autonomous Driving Convergence and Integration Forum
- Prepared the issue report on phase 3 & 4 legalization of autonomous driving in Korea for the Autonomous Driving Convergence and Integration Forum
- Made a presentation on the issue of generative AI and copyright for employees of a client company
- Presented at a seminar on legal issues of generative AI for employees of a client company
- Made a presentation on fintech AI legal issues at the Fintech Industry Association
- Advised a client company on AI issues
- Advised a client company related to the Personal Information Protection Act in connection to use of unidentified data for research
- Advised a client company on characters created using AI
- Advised a client company on AI personnel management and handled disputes related to non-solicitation issues
- Handled the research for the Korea Communications Commission (KCC) on the direction of laws and policies related to use and protection of locational information in line with the technological development in the fourth industrial era
- Handled the task of designing & applying AI models to be used to ensure security for Daegu City, Korea Local Information Research & Development Institute, Ministry of SME & Startups, Korea Expressway Corporation, and Korea Railway Corporation
- Handled the task of developing the “2023 Self-Check Table for Compliance with the AI Ethics Criteria”
- Handled the task of publishing the “2023 Guide to Development of Trustworthy AI (Autonomous Driving, Medical Service & General Areas)”
Handled the task of formulating the “2021 KISA Guideline for Protection of Personal Images of Autonomous Driving Vehicles [Autonomous Cars, Drones & Robots]”
