Law360 Publishes Akin Gump Analysis of New Limits on Geospatial Imagery Software Exports

January 7, 2020

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Law360 has published “A Look At New Limits On Geospatial Imagery Software Exports,” an article by Akin Gump international trade partner Kevin Wolf and senior counsel Steven Emme and Robert Monjay.

The article discusses a new interim final rule from the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security that would add a new worldwide (minus Canada) “unilateral export control on a type of geospatial imagery software specially designed for training deep convolutional neural networks to automate the analysis of geospatial imagery and point clouds.”

The authors write that the rule, which became effective on January 6, means that anyone potentially involved with such software “must conduct an immediate classification effort to determine whether the licensing obligations of the Commerce Department’s Export Administration Regulations, or EAR, apply to their activities.”

To read the full article, which originated as an Akin Gump client alert, please click here.

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