Barry is a Partner in William Fry’s Technology Group and is internationally recognised as a leading expert in the area of AI law. He advises clients on issues relating to text and data mining, AI copyright infringement, data protection and AI, machine learning, and AI rights ownership. He has expertise in AI specific contracts, licences, and dataset agreements, and is very involved in AI product advisory work. Barry specialises in advising on the AI Act and other legislation such as the DSA and GDPR from an AI compliance perspective. Barry was appointed by the Government to Ireland’s AI Advisory Council, has recently completed the writing stage of his PhD on AI and copyright, and is a member of the Law Society of Ireland’s IP & Data Protection Committee. Barry has advised some of Ireland’s largest media organisations on data licensing to AI companies and dataset agreements, a New York-based NASDAQ traded plc on the development of and IP issues related to proprietary large language models, a major BigTech multinational on the copyright considerations of their services related to AI, and a global social media platform on various legal issues related to its AI products.