Generative AI and copyrights: My talk to the IPO
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 does not protect content produced by Generative AI (GenAI): Thaler v Perlmutter
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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Copyright may subsist in Bitcoin file format: Wright v BTC Core
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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A Multimillion-dollar Dispute Over a Failed Research Agreement: SunSource v University of Windsor
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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Generative AI: my keynote speech on the challenges and legal issues at ITechLaw
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 tech under the AI provisions of CPPA, AIDA and Law 25
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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ALAI CANADA – ANNUAL MID-YEAR REVIEW OF CANADIAN COPYRIGHT LAW DEVELOPMENTS
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 liable for $500,000 in damages for not delisting defamatory information: A.B. v Google
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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Dynamic Copyright Blocking Orders: My Fordham Talk
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: overview and questions
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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