AI Law

Your contacts for this area of law:

  • Roman Ronneburger (AI in copyright, personality and trade mark law, generative models, training data, platform law)
  • Linda Seiffert (AI contracts, data governance, data-sharing agreements, compliance)
  • Johannes Schleuning (AI in M&A transactions, joint ventures, R&D agreements)
  • In technical cooperation: Robin Data and Prof. Dr. Döring (technical experts)

Since the summer of 2024, artificial intelligence and data-driven business models have been subject to a densely interlocking regulatory regime that has no equivalent anywhere else. The AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689), the Data Act, the Data Governance Act, the new Product Liability Directive 2024/2853, the AI Liability Directive and the copyright directive with its text and data mining exception together create a framework that calls for integrated advice on organisational, documentation and governance duties.

SES Berlin advises companies that develop, place on the market or deploy AI, as well as manufacturers of connected products, data-space initiatives, cloud providers, drone operators and mobility companies. Our work combines regulatory depth with contractual routine and a pragmatic view of what can actually be implemented in day-to-day operations. We translate the abstract duties of the AI Act into workable AI compliance management systems, allocate responsibilities between providers, importers, distributors and deployers, and secure the contractual relationships along the entire AI value chain.

Our aim is integrated governance that bundles regulatory requirements structurally, minimises liability risk and creates durable structures for the whole life cycle of digital systems. In particularly complex constellations – general-purpose AI models with systemic risk, medical AI or autonomous vehicles – we work with Robin Data and Prof. Dr. Döring as technical experts.

Advisory focus at a glance

We advise clients across the typical constellations of AI and data law:

  • Building AI compliance management systems under the AI Act
  • Classification of AI systems (prohibited, high-risk, subject to transparency duties, minimal risk)
  • Conformity assessment and CE marking for high-risk AI
  • GPAI obligations for providers and modifiers of foundation models
  • Transparency obligations under Article 50 AI Act (chatbots, deepfakes, AI-generated content)
  • Fundamental rights impact assessment (FRIA) for deployers of high-risk AI
  • Data Act and Data Governance Act: data access rights, cloud switching, data intermediaries
  • Data-space initiatives and data trusteeship
  • Training-data compliance: copyright, the text and data mining exception under section 44b UrhG, data protection
  • AI-generated content: protectability, licensing, personality rights
  • Drone law: EU drone regulation, U-space, authorisations
  • Autonomous driving: level 3 and level 4 systems, AFGBV, UNECE regulations
  • AI liability: the new Product Liability Directive, the AI Liability Directive, fault-based liability
  • Data protection in AI training: Article 6 GDPR, EDPB Opinion 28/2024, legitimate interests

AI Law

Your contacts for this area of law:

  • Roman Ronneburger (AI in copyright, personality and trade mark law, generative models, training data, platform law)
  • Linda Seiffert (AI contracts, data governance, data-sharing agreements, compliance)
  • Johannes Schleuning (AI in M&A transactions, joint ventures, R&D agreements)
  • In technical cooperation: Robin Data and Prof. Dr. Döring (technical experts)

Since the summer of 2024, artificial intelligence and data-driven business models have been subject to a densely interlocking regulatory regime that has no equivalent anywhere else. The AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689), the Data Act, the Data Governance Act, the new Product Liability Directive 2024/2853, the AI Liability Directive and the copyright directive with its text and data mining exception together create a framework that calls for integrated advice on organisational, documentation and governance duties.

SES Berlin advises companies that develop, place on the market or deploy AI, as well as manufacturers of connected products, data-space initiatives, cloud providers, drone operators and mobility companies. Our work combines regulatory depth with contractual routine and a pragmatic view of what can actually be implemented in day-to-day operations. We translate the abstract duties of the AI Act into workable AI compliance management systems, allocate responsibilities between providers, importers, distributors and deployers, and secure the contractual relationships along the entire AI value chain.

Our aim is integrated governance that bundles regulatory requirements structurally, minimises liability risk and creates durable structures for the whole life cycle of digital systems. In particularly complex constellations – general-purpose AI models with systemic risk, medical AI or autonomous vehicles – we work with Robin Data and Prof. Dr. Döring as technical experts.

Advisory focus at a glance

We advise clients across the typical constellations of AI and data law:

  • Building AI compliance management systems under the AI Act
  • Classification of AI systems (prohibited, high-risk, subject to transparency duties, minimal risk)
  • Conformity assessment and CE marking for high-risk AI
  • GPAI obligations for providers and modifiers of foundation models
  • Transparency obligations under Article 50 AI Act (chatbots, deepfakes, AI-generated content)
  • Fundamental rights impact assessment (FRIA) for deployers of high-risk AI
  • Data Act and Data Governance Act: data access rights, cloud switching, data intermediaries
  • Data-space initiatives and data trusteeship
  • Training-data compliance: copyright, the text and data mining exception under section 44b UrhG, data protection
  • AI-generated content: protectability, licensing, personality rights
  • Drone law: EU drone regulation, U-space, authorisations
  • Autonomous driving: level 3 and level 4 systems, AFGBV, UNECE regulations
  • AI liability: the new Product Liability Directive, the AI Liability Directive, fault-based liability
  • Data protection in AI training: Article 6 GDPR, EDPB Opinion 28/2024, legitimate interests