Not sure what to get the tech oligarch who has (literally) everything this holiday? Why not his very own Presidential Executive Order titled Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence? It’s the latest thing in political theater coming out of the Trump White House—a plan so detrimental in principle to the American public that almost no Members of Congress ...
Over the weekend, I had the privilege of participating in the 11th annual Mosaic Conference, organized by the Institute for Intellectual Property and Social Justice (IIPSJ) and hosted by Suffolk University Law School IP Center. Founded by Professor Lateef Mtima at Howard University, IPSJ’s mission is to “…examine intellectual property law and policy—as well as the IP regime in total—to ...
Although I have expressed aspects of these views in several posts over the past couple of years, I will try to consolidate my opinion as to why GAI training with protected creative works is a more problematic fair use consideration than many, even the courts, seem to believe. I acknowledge that even fellow copyright advocates will disagree with some of ...
Two headlines in the first week of this month said a lot about the United States as an “innovative” nation right now. One story announced that the first driverless semi-trucks are on the highway covering normal long-haul routes, and the second reported that the final shipments of pre-tariff goods from China were arriving at U.S. ports. Leave it to contemporary ...
I have not added a copyright post here since March 19, when the DC Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed in Thaler v. Perlmutter that works produced autonomously by generative AI (GAI) are not protected under U.S. copyright law. Although it is good to see the human authorship doctrine in copyright left undisturbed, it is a fleeting moment of sanity within ...
