Copilot: The next stage in the AI copyright wars?
The copyright wars are back, and this time the conflict is all about artificial intelligence. While most of the public has been paying attention to what is going on with AI art tools such as DALL-E,...
View ArticleCan Bill Willingham release ‘Fables’ into the public domain?
Fables is a popular comic book series written by Bill Willingham that follows characters from fairy tales who have formed a clandestine community in New York. Willingham is the sole writer of the...
View ArticleFrench lawmakers propose new copyright law about generative AI
On September 12, several French lawmakers from the Assemblée nationale presented a law proposal to the Presidency which has the objective of reform some norms in existing copyright law (text of the...
View ArticleChinese court declares that AI-generated image has copyright
The copyright law world has been abuzz last week with news that a court in the People’s Republic of China decided that a work generated with Stable Diffusion had copyright, and therefore the author...
View ArticleThe EU AI Act and copyright
The European Parliament has approved the AI Act (voted version here), setting in motion its publication in the official journal in the next few months (given further edits). While full implementation...
View ArticleA short guide to the Copyright Wars
My social timeline has been abuzz with the latest copyright decision regarding the Internet Archive, which lost its appeal in the copyright lawsuit from Hachette. In the words of a colleague, this is a...
View ArticleA short history of the Copyright Wars
In a previous post we provided the background of what some call the Copyright Wars, delineating the sides and the parties. While legal conflicts about copyright have been raging since its inception,...
View ArticleCopyright for Dummies
This is the third post in a series about the Copyright Wars (previous posts here and here), which I’ve written given the growing interest regarding copyright prompted by the rise of generative AI. This...
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