AI Office of Ireland gets its board — Mary Doyle named chair, seven-person board confirmed
DETE confirmed on 5 August that Mary Doyle — a former assistant/deputy secretary general across the Departments of the Taoiseach, Health and Education — will chair the AI Office of Ireland's board, a week after CEO Paul Byrne's appointment and the Office's establishment. The other six board seats are split between officialdom and subject expertise: Dept. of Enterprise principal officer Dr Michelle Kearney, chartered accountant Donal Rooney (Enterprise Ireland), Trinity law professor Deirdre Byrne, DCU emeritus computing professor Alan Smeaton, Shutterstock's AI/data-science director Dr Alessandra Sala, and Carne's chief data and AI officer Siobhan Noble. Practical read: the Office now has its full governance structure in place — CEO, chair and board — a week into its operational life as Ireland's central coordinating authority and single point of contact under the EU AI Act, closing what had been the last open leadership gap.
Source: The Irish Times
Munich court rules against Suno: AI training abroad no shield, EU AI Act compliance no defence
The Munich District Court I ruled for GEMA against Suno on 31 July — Europe's first major AI-generated-music copyright judgment, and doctrinally sharper than the earlier GEMA v OpenAI decision (still on appeal). Three findings matter beyond music: the court took jurisdiction over training conduct that happened entirely in the US and then ran a full US fair-use analysis itself, finding Suno's case distinguishable from Bartz v Anthropic and Kadrey v Meta because the outputs were substantially similar to the originals; it held that memorisation of works inside a model hosted on German servers is itself an infringing reproduction, not just the output; and — most relevant to any provider leaning on Article 53(1)(c)-(d) — it held that EU AI Act copyright-policy and training-summary compliance does not shield a provider from copyright liability, reading Recital 107 as making enforcement easier for rightsholders, not harder. Not final (Suno can appeal, and the CJEU's Like Company opinion lands 3 September 2026), but the practical guidance for any client training or fine-tuning models is unchanged and now firmer: provenance and lawful data access are the exposure, and AI Act compliance paperwork is not a copyright defence.
Source: Reed Smith (Munich District Court I, case no. 42 O 763/25)
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Begin in writing →This briefing is general information, not legal advice, and does not create an advisor–client relationship. Summaries are original; follow source links for the full record. Adesanya AI Advisory — Abdulwahab B. Adesanya, Barrister-at-Law (Nigeria).