By: Allison Nickerson Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an unavoidable part of modern life, every time someone asks Siri a question or enters a Google search, they are using AI technology. While often extremely helpful for common tasks, there is an increasing concern aboutjust how far AI can go. AI was intended to complete specific… Read More Conflicts in Writing a New Future with Artificial Intelligence
By: Sarah McLaughlin With more than 551 million users, Spotify, one of the world’s most popular audio streaming services, is making a significant entrance into the AI arena by trying to reshape the user experience. In February of 2023, Spotify released their new AI DJ—a “personalized AI guide that knows your music taste so… Read More Podcasting Without Borders: Spotify’s Innovative AI Translation for Podcasts
By: Bryan Sicard As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly accessible to the general public, it is being used not only as an artistic novelty but has also shown itself capable of being used to fill voids in artistic markets. This has resulted in AI being directed to create poems and literature, songs, scripts, and… Read More Art in the Digital Age: the Limited, but Real Value of Intellectual Property Rights in AI-made Artwork
By: Meg Cotter The writers behind our favorite films and movies and the actors portraying the roles within them are standing up for their place in Hollywood as Artificial Intelligence becomes a hot topic in the SAG-AFTRA labor strike. Technology has progressed to the point that scripts can be written without writers and actors’ images… Read More Writer’s Guild Strikers push for boundaries to be set in negotiations involving the use of Artificial Intelligence in Hollywood, setting legal precedent, and taking the future of careers out of technology’s hands.
By: Hayden McGuire Over two years ago, the major game developer, Bungie, filed suit against Aimjunkies.com, requesting damages and injunctive relief, stopping Aimjunkies.com from selling cheats for Bungie’s popular game Destiny 2. Destiny 2 is a free-to-play online first-person-shooter that was released in 2017. It has maintained between 100,000 and 300,000 concurrent players since then,… Read More Fairness and Online Gaming: Bungie’s Successful Use of Copyright Laws Against Cheat Developers
By: Jack Gagner The “golden age” of artificial intelligence (“AI”) image generation, or at least the buzz surrounding it online, shows no sign of slowing down in 2023. Although AI image generation has been around for years, widely accessible and free online programs have recently delivered it to the internet-savvy masses. Today, “[t]he most common… Read More Deviant Art? Use of Copyrighted Material in AI Image Generation
By: Erin Howlin If you look closely at some logos or the inside cover of a book, you’ll discover a small “C” enclosed by a circle. Although small, this symbol represents a protection that a company or brand has from others copying their work. The Copyright Act of 1976 is the basis of copyright law… Read More The C with the Circle: How American Copyright Laws Affect Technology and Vice Versa
By: Kiara D. Benac Although art generated by algorithms has been around for years, the emergence of new programs that use machine learning to transform words into images within seconds, such as DALL-E 2, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion, has become not only trendy but also controversial. Historically, controversy has followed the introduction of new art-making technology.… Read More Artificially Intelligent Artists?
By: Jacob Hartzler “[T]elling the story of the forging on the Rings of Power is a privilege and a responsibility. I hope we do Tolkien’s work justice.” These are the words that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos relayed in an email to Time Magazine. In November of 2017, Amazon released that it had paid an eye-popping… Read More Owning a World That Isn’t Yours
This blog discusses the potential consequences of the Supreme Court’s forthcoming decision in Google v. Oracle, the culmination of a series of lawsuits that began in 2010. The suit considers the potential copyrightability of an application programming interface (API), a system regarded in the tech world as crucial to software and application development. Should the Court rule in favor of Oracle, the tech industry can expect the emergence of a much more competitive landscape. … Read More Google v. Oracle: The Ten-Year Tech Battle
This blog describes how the efficient nature of Lego’s crowd-sourcing platform, Lego World Builder, comes at the cost of relinquishing intellectual property ownership rights for creative users. The blog further looks at the ethical copyright issues that are implicated by the use of the platform and what legal consequences creators need to consider before submitting their work to the platform. … Read More Ethical Issues to Consider Before Entering Lego World Builder: A “High-Risk” World of Copyright
This blog discusses the potentiality of adding Chinese firms which, violate American intellectual property laws to the Commerce Department’s Entity List. A national security decision with implications for Chinese trade, and those American businesses with which they do business.… Read More Use the List, problem dismissed? How placing Chinese firms on the Entity List may better protect American business Interests.
Faced with the dilemma of keeping their website free from unlawful activity, YouTube’s Content ID system works to keep copyright infringement at bay. Unfortunately, the automated system leaves small content creators voiceless at the whim of copyright claims from corporate entities. Is there a realistic solution for Youtube?… Read More STRIKING OUT – YOUTUBE’S SWING-AND-MISS COPYRIGHT ID SYSTEM
Copyright professors recently filed an Amicus brief calling for the 2nd Circuit Court to over turn a ruling that could alter the course of copyright law and specifically how the first sale doctrine protects the sale of music.
… Read More Turning Tables on Copyright Law: The Potential Impact of Capitol Records, LLC v. RiDigi Inc.
Written By: Erik Boos What happens to your Facebook or your Gmail account if you die or become incapacitated? Did you read your Terms of Service agreement? Many of these social media and email service providers expressly prohibit anyone but the account holder from accessing these services. This prohibition applies to your spouse, next… Read More What to Know About Digital Assets
POSTED BY Mayra Neimerck Innovators are revolutionizing the U.S. pay-television market. If you could get your TV over the Internet and have access to all your favorite shows, without a cable or satellite subscription fee, what would you do? Just about any person would choose to cut the cord. The term cord-cutters refers to people… Read More Post-Aereo: Where does that Leave Cord-Cutters?
POSTED BY Philip Kachajian The critically acclaimed electronic music artist Deadmau5 has lawyered up in response to a trademark infringement suit launched by media giant Disney, which believes that Deadmau5’s signature mouse-head logo is too similar to their own. Not to be outdone by Disney’s suit, counsel for the artist have filed a cease and… Read More Of Mice and Lawsuits, Disney and Deadmau5 Square Off Over Likeness Usage and Copyright Infringement