Yours Lawfully Podcast

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Produced by Postgraduate Law and Tech Students and based out of Queen Mary University of London, this podcast keeps you ahead of the game when it comes to Tech, Media and Intellectual Property Law. Episodes feature legal experts, industry trailblazers and leading academics. Visit our website to read the show notes and access full transcriptions of each episode: https://legal-bytes-podcast9.webnode.com/

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Unmasking the Dark Depths of Deepfakes

Apr 03 2024 40 mins  
This episode of Yours Lawfully presents an intriguing exploration into the world of deepfakes - astonishingly realistic manipulations of digital media blurring the lines between imagination and reality. These creations, utilising advanced machine learning algorithms, have grown exponentially in popularity, raising significant ethical and societal concerns. To unravel the complexiti

Analysing the updates to the UK's data protection legal regime

Mar 06 2024 33 mins  
In today's episode of Yours Lawfully, we are delving deep into the reforms the UK government is planning to introduce to the UK's comprehensive data protection law, modelled after the European GDPR. To discuss this topic, we are joined by two renowned experts and titans of the UK’s data protection industry: Dr. Ian Walden and Mr. Jon Baines.Dr. Ian Walden is a Professor

Metawho? Metawhat? Metawhere? Trade marks and the metaverse

Feb 07 2024 37 mins  
On today's episode of Yours Lawfully, we are joined by Dr. Michaela MacDonald, lecturer at Queen Mary, University of London and co-host of More Than Just a Game, who discusses the pertinent legal questions regarding trade marks in the metaverse, such as revocation of trade marks, genuine use in the metaverse and the importance of protecting your trade mark in the metaverse. La

Climate Change, Protesting & The Media: What's The Link?

Jan 03 2024 31 mins  
Today's episode of Yours Lawfully focuses on understanding the interconnections between climate change protests, and what, if anything, the law and media have to do with it all. This topic will be explored particularly from the perspective of climate change protesters, specifically within the Just Stop Oil movement, and the future restrictions their human rights will face from

Did Eminem's "Stan" Predict The Nature Of Online Fandoms : Untangling Legal Webs

Dec 05 2023 33 mins  
On today's episode of Yours Lawfully, we have with us Professor Paul Wragg, a media law professor from the University of Leeds, who takes us through the nature of online fandoms and the numerous privacy and free speech concerns emerging from the same. We also attempt to answer the question as to whether such fandoms need to be governed by legislation or self-regulation. He has

Bonus episode: a conversation about FTX' collapse

Dec 04 2023 24 mins  
The following episode comes as a continuation of Shreyansh & Marcos episode regarding the collapse of crypto exchange giant FTX. In this sequel, Marcos gets to interview Asim Arshad, an experienced dispute resolution solicitor and head of crypto & blockchain team at Mackrell Solicitors.

Notorious ChatGPT Part.2

Nov 30 2023 33 mins  
Welcome to the second part of the episode ‘Notorious ChatGPT’ where we delve into the world of generative AI, particularly the intelligent chatbot known as ChatGPT. In this episode, Dr Michaela MacDonald and Dr Julian Hough provide clarity on the risks of the use and advanced development of generative AI and explain what happens behind the scenes of the decision-making process

Notorious ChatGPT Part.1

Nov 30 2023 38 mins  
Welcome to the first part of the episode ‘Notorious ChatGPT’ where we delve into the world of generative AI, particularly the intelligent chatbot known as ChatGPT. In this episode, Dr Michaela MacDonald and Dr Julian Hough provide clarity on the risks of the use and advanced development of generative AI and explain what happens behind the scenes of the decision-making process i

I.T commercial law in the real world

Oct 31 2023 21 mins  
In this Final episode of the third season, we have with us Nicola Carter, who is a Senior Legal Counsel from NTT Europe.We are going to discuss the scope on IT Commercial Law a long side opportunities and challenges that lawyers face on this field.

Illusion of choice: regulating targeted content on online platforms [part 2]

Oct 03 2023 35 mins  
This is the second part of our cross-disciplinary discussion on targeted content. In this episode, Lauren and Patrick are going to address more specifically the topic of targeted advertising: why does it work, what is the legal framework and what this framework should be? We talked about the human brain, Jurassic Park, the UK approach to regulating advertising and social media lite