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Open AI motion to dismiss
  • artificial inteliigence
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OpenAI comes out swinging in motions to dismiss copyright class action claims

  • Barry Sookman
  • September 25, 2023
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IPO Boston 2023
  • AI
  • Copyright

Generative AI and copyrights: My talk to the IPO

  • Barry Sookman
  • September 17, 2023
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Copyright and GenAI
  • AI Regulation
  • artificial inteliigence
  • Copyright

Copyright does not protect content produced by Generative AI (GenAI): Thaler v Perlmutter

  • Barry Sookman
  • August 19, 2023
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Bitcoin File Format protected by copyrght
  • Copyright

Copyright may subsist in Bitcoin file format: Wright v BTC Core

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  • August 10, 2023
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  • IT agreements

 A Multimillion-dollar Dispute Over a Failed Research Agreement: SunSource v University of Windsor

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  • July 10, 2023
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IPO Boston 2023
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  • AI
  • Copyright

Generative AI and copyrights: My talk to the IPO

  • Barry Sookman
  • September 17, 2023
I was pleased earlier today to participate on a panel on generative AI and copyright at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) in Boston. My co-panelists…
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Copyright and GenAI
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  • AI Regulation
  • artificial inteliigence
  • Copyright

Copyright does not protect content produced by Generative AI (GenAI): Thaler v Perlmutter

  • Barry Sookman
  • August 19, 2023
It has ben a fundamental tenet of copyright law that for a work to be subject to copyright protection it must be the result of human authorship.. With the rise of generative artificial…
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Bitcoin File Format protected by copyrght
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  • Copyright

Copyright may subsist in Bitcoin file format: Wright v BTC Core

  • Barry Sookman
  • August 10, 2023
In a recent UK case, Wright & Ors v BTC Core & Ors [2023] EWHC 222 (Ch) (07 February 2023), Justice Mellor ruled that the Bitcoin file format could not be protected by copyright. He…
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  • IT agreements

 A Multimillion-dollar Dispute Over a Failed Research Agreement: SunSource v University of Windsor

  • Barry Sookman
  • July 10, 2023
Every now and then a case provides a teaching moment. The recent case, Sunsource v. University of Windsor, 2022 ONSC 6047, is such a case. Sunsource involved a dispute over a failed R&D…
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  • AI Regulation
  • generative AI

Generative AI: my keynote speech on the challenges and legal issues at ITechLaw

  • Barry Sookman
  • May 28, 2023
Artificial intelligence is a transformative technology that is already generating many legal, business and ethical issues. This post provides access to a comprehensive paper that highlights…
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Contracting for AI in tech contracts
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  • AIDA
  • artificial inteliigence

Contracting for tech under the AI provisions of CPPA, AIDA and Law 25

  • Barry Sookman
  • May 14, 2023
I had the pleasure to speak at the McCarthy Tetrault AI Summit along with my colleague Mike Scherman. The AI summit was attended by over 1,000 McCarthy Clients eager to hear about AI legal and…
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Sookman ALAI Copyright Year in Review
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  • Copyright
  • Presentations

ALAI CANADA – ANNUAL MID-YEAR REVIEW OF CANADIAN COPYRIGHT LAW DEVELOPMENTS

  • Barry Sookman
  • May 4, 2023
I was very pleased to give a presentation to ALAI Canada on developments in Canadian copyright law (from May 2022-May 2023). Last year’s Annual Copyright Review can be accessed here.…
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Google defamation
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  • defamation
  • Internet defamation

Google liable for $500,000 in damages for not delisting defamatory information: A.B. v Google

  • Barry Sookman
  • May 1, 2023
A Quebec court found Google liable for not delisting defamatory content. It held that Google is a curator of content and must delist illegal content once becoming aware of it.
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Fordham IP Conference
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  • blocking orders
  • Copyright

Dynamic Copyright Blocking Orders: My Fordham Talk

  • Barry Sookman
  • April 13, 2023
I had the pleasure to speak earlier today at the Fordham 30th Annual Intellectual Property & Policy Conference in New York. My topic was IP & Live Content Piracy in Sports. The focus…
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AIDA Companion Document
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  • AIDA

AIDA Companion Document: overview and questions

  • Barry Sookman
  • April 10, 2023
The Companion Document is meant as an assurance document to help sell AIDA. It is intended to quell the considerable unease among MPs and members of the public that AIDI is nothing but a shell…
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  • When copyright in a work transfers to the Crown: Keatley v Teranet
  • Why you need a good information technology lawyer for complex IT agreements: CIS v IBM

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