This week, there was a lot of discussion over Canada’s new law requiring publishers to be paid when their news articles are linked to by search engines and social media companies. I also liked Professor Grimmelmann’s forthcoming article with Katherine Lee and A. Feder Cooper on copyright and generative AI. Canadian Publisher Payment Law Copyright…
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Links for Week of July 21, 2023
So what has your AI been trained upon? A group of authors requests that their copyrighted works not be used for that purpose. Further, for many years American military emails (.MIL) have been mis-sent to Mali (.ML) due to typos. Now, that domain is being transferred back to that country’s control. Finally, I was very…
Links for Week of July 14, 2023
This week, I liked that John Welch posted Professor McCarthy’s take on the Jack Daniels Supreme Court case. I also liked Evan Brown’s post regarding copyright and AI creation, specifically whether a human could be a joint author with the AI. Thought provoking for sure! Jack Daniels v. VIP Products Copyright and AI
Links for Week of June 2, 2023
This week, a group of AI researchers issued a warning regarding mitigating the risk of extinction caused by AI. Further, security expert Bruce Schneier summarizes the articles coming out recently about a report detailing Chinese hacking of the US critical infrastructure. Note – due to external obligations, the next post will be the week of…
Links for Week of May 12, 2023
I was quoted this week in a Rolling Stone article by Miles Klee re: Utah’s new age verification law for adult websites. I also liked Dr. Guadamuz’s article re: copyright infringement claims against the owners of the LAION AI dataset. Also, please be sure to register for next Wednesday’s Privacy Law Update webinar. Rolling Stone…
Links for Week of April 7, 2023
This week, lawsuits over AI generated artwork are in the news, as well as some good commentary about them. I liked the Ars Technica article, as well as the EFF’s post, linked below. Copyright and AI
Links for Week of March 24, 2023
This week, the Copyright Office issued guidelines for the registration of works which include materials generated by artificial intelligence. And, continuing the trend of interesting IP cases being argued before the Supreme Court, arguments were heard in the Jack Daniels (commercial use of parody products) and Arbitron v. Hetronic (application of US law to foreign…
Links for Week of March 3, 2023
Some great further discussion to be had of the Taamneh v. Twitter case argued last week before the Supreme Court, as well as a discussion of the copyright issues with AI. Taamneh v. Twitter Artificial Intelligence and Copyright
Links for Week of February 17, 2023
This week’s links are related to a win by Hermes in its suit over the “Metabirkin” NFT’s. I liked Dr. Guadamuz’s take on the case. Also, Nicole Black had a good explanation of what ChatGPT is and why it matters to lawyers, as posted to LLRX. And, a warning, from Futurism.com, about leaking company secrets…
Links for Week of February 10, 2023
This week’s links are related to AI, specifically on copyright and data privacy concerns. Copyright and AI Data Privacy and AI