Gilles Rouvier
Attorney before the Paris Bar since 1995, expert in IT - IP
Founding Partner of Lawways in 2006
For more than 25 years, Gilles has developed a specific and specialized expertise, in the sector of new technologies and their development, and more particularly in software, ownership of IP, protection of personal data and IT contract’s. Before creating Lawways in early 2006, he worked with international law firms – August Debouzy, Gide Loyrette Nouel – but also in the legal departments of global industrial and financial groups. His career for several years at the heart of the business, notably at General Electric (GE) in the Medical Systems and Finance activities, has allowed him to acquire a concrete understanding of the needs of companies and an economic vision of legal issues, and to bring real added value to the solutions he offers to the clients of the firm.
Gilles is President of Cyberlex “French association of Law and New Technologies”
He’s also President of the Tech and M&A Committee of ITechLaw (a US non-profit organization - “International Technology Law Association”).
Ranked in Chambers and Partners 2023 as recognized practitioner in TMT Information Technology
AREAS OF LEGAL EXPERTISE
• Intellectual property
• IT contracts
• Open Source
• Artificial intelligence
• Personal data
• Business secrecy
• Web3
DIPLOMAS
• Winner of the contest General in Business Law (Panthéon Assas University, Paris II – 1990)
• DEA in Business Law (Panthéon Assas University, Paris II – 1992)
• DESS in Industrial Property Law (Panthéon Assas University, Paris II – 1994)
• US Business Law, Communication (UCLA – 2002)
• Certificate of Aptitude for the Profession of Lawyer (EFB – 1994)
LANGUAGES
French and English
Session
The AI Act, which is the new European AI Regulation set to be adopted in April 2024, establishes a comprehensive legal framework for regulating the commercialization of AI systems. Its rules relate in particular to the transparency of the AI systems, and their strength depends in particular on how an AI system is developed. That’s specifically where Open-Source becomes key in AI development ! By fostering collaboration, transparency, and community-driven innovation, Open-Source enables the responsible and ethical advancement of AI technologies.
This regulation, through its cardinal principle of transparency leads to the creation of an exception to its application for AI system distributed under an Open-Source licence. In this respect, by recalling the conditions under which the Open-Source qualification will be retained, the AI Act specifies the criteria(s) under which it will not apply to AI system distributed under an Open-Source licence.
The purpose of this presentation is to understand the conditions for benefiting from an exemption from the application of the AI regulation for AI tools using Open Source. In this way, we will analyze the definition of Open Source adopted by the AI Act, a definition which emphasises the need for transparency through the desire to encourage developers to create models to accelerate the sharing of information throughout the lifecycle of an AI. This will make it possible to address the specific cases in which AI distributed under an open-source licence is exempt from the application of the regulation, and the direct consequences of this.