Copyright Fair Use in the Face of Technological Developments: Staying Ahead or Limping Behind? – Part 2
Specific Technological Developments and Fair Use – Two Case Studies At the time of writing, there are over a dozen lawsuits since the start of 2023 against companies such as OpenAI and Stability AI for using copyright-protected works in the training of
Copyright Fair Use in the Face of Technological Developments: Staying Ahead or Limping Behind? (Part 1)
Introduction Open-ended fair use and categorical fair dealing provisions both temper the exclusive rights of copyright owners to foster further creative expression by permitting secondary uses of copyrighted works, providing the primary mechanism to balance copyright protection with the broader public
The Future of Lawyering
When I was a lad, we knew what the future would bring. It was going to involve piloting our flying cars to the office, holidays on Mars and taking our dinners in the form of nutri pills, because everyone would be
Artificial Intelligence: Learned Friend or Foe?
Filing a brief in court referencing case authorities, finding out that the cases were actually made up (because no one – not opposing counsel, nor even the judge – could find them), and then blaming ChatGPT for it – that
The Best Things in Life are Not for Free: Copyright and Generative AI Learning
Generative AI tools like Chat GPT and Stable Diffusion must have access to millions of text and images in order for them to learn and eventually generate output successfully in response to user commands. The key question for copyright lawyers