Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Gianluca Campus (University of Milan)

Generative AI: admissibility and infringement in the two US class actions against Meta’s LLaMA

January 17, 2024

Image via Pixabay The two US class actions against Meta We have previously analysed US class actions against Open AI (here) and Google (here) for unauthorized use of copyright works in the…

Rita Matulionyte (Macquarie Law School)

Copyright and AI in Australia: 2023 in Review

January 15, 2024

Photo by Joey Csunyo on Unsplash In recent years, copyright departments in governments around the world have been preoccupied with AI’s effects on copyright industries and, more recently, copyright…

Alina Trapova (University College London) , João Pedro Quintais (Institute for Information Law (IViR))

EU copyright law round up – fourth trimester of 2023

January 4, 2024

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Dear readers, Happy new year! Welcome to the fourth (and last) round up of EU copyright law for 2023! In this edition, we update you on what has happened in the…

Artha Dermawan (Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition & University of Lapland) , Peter Mezei (University of Szeged, Hungary)

The Jakarta Effect: Could Southeast Asia's Consensus-Based Remuneration Approach Be the Blueprint for Human-Centric AI?

December 14, 2023

Image generated from DALL-E 3 with the prompt 'ASEAN Ministers discussing the ASEAN AI Framework Guidelines during the ASEAN Summit 2024 in Bali, Indonesia.' Setting the Scene Much ink has been…

Kalpana Tyagi (Maastricht University)

Generative AI: Remunerating the human author & the limits of a narrow TDM Exception

December 13, 2023

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash In his classic work, ‘Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy’, Josef Schumpeter referred to the ‘waves of creative destruction’ to describe how monopoly rents…

Paul Keller (Institute for Information Law (IViR))

A first look at the copyright relevant parts in the final AI Act compromise

December 11, 2023

On Friday evening, after 38 hours of negotiations, representatives of the European Parliament, EU member states and the European Commission reached a provisional agreement on the proposed AI Act…

Marianna Foerg (Hamlins LLP and King's College London)

U.S. Artificial Intelligence Notice of Inquiry – deadline extension

November 27, 2023

Photo by Possessed Photography on Unsplash Copyright protection in machine-generated works is not a new issue for law makers. The traditional concept of human authorship was first challenged with…

Paul Keller (Institute for Information Law (IViR))

Generative AI and copyright: Convergence of opt-outs?

November 23, 2023

Machine readable opt-outs from TDM As we head into the last month of the current EU legislative term, there are increasing signs that EU lawmakers are unable to agree on the AI Act, which was…

Matt Blaszczyk (Georgetown University Law Center)

Contradictions of Computer-Generated Works’ Protection

November 6, 2023

Photo by Possessed Photography on Unsplash Recently, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, in line with several decisions of the U.S. Copyright Office’s Review Board, found…