For several years, creators asking AI developers to obtain authorization before using protected works for training have faced a familiar objection: permission raises the cost of training and can slow…
The debate over AI and copyright policy, and how to ensure remuneration for right holders, is gaining momentum around the world. There have been calls to review EU copyright law, India has proposed…
Generative tools like DALL·E, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion can now produce an image "in the style of" almost any artist in seconds. That capability sits uneasily with EU copyright law, which has…
Who “owns” content generated with a person’s personal AI twin? In this post, we briefly explain the technology underlying personal AI twins and offer three possible answers to this question. We…
Any suggestion that copyright might be linked in any way to a registry is enough to raise concerns amongst legal scholars and rightsholders. Yet, notwithstanding the questionable choice of term - one…
On 28 May 2026, the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) published its study on “Mapping of EU Databases and Metadata Standards Providing Information on Copyright-Protected Works” …
A few months ago, a very valuable interdisciplinary workshop took place at UCL looking at the well-rehearsed but endless topic of genAI and copyright law. What made this meeting different and…
The advent of digital technologies and connected patterns of production and consumption has progressively displaced ownership in favour of access as the predominant mode of enjoyment of works of…
In many copyright infringement cases filed in the United States against AI companies because of their unlicensed use of copyrighted works in the training of AI models, defendants raise fair use as a…
