Aug 30, 2023 Uncharted territory? Opportunities, boundaries and uncertainties of text and data mining By Lutz Riede Oliver Talhoff Matthias Hofer Introduction AI systems, in particular foundation models used for generative AI applications, require training. Conducting such training...
Aug 03, 2023 Permission to Deep Fake – Who Owns the Rights to AI-Generated Content? By Menachem Kaplan Marissa Yu Jennifer Lei “Feel free to use my voice without penalty,” tweeted Canadian musician, Grimes, after the song “Heart on My Sleeve” went viral for its...
Jun 16, 2023 The Fair Use Defense for Generative AI Tools After Warhol V. Goldsmith By Menachem Kaplan Marissa Yu Luc Von Danwitz For months, both the artist and IP legal communities eagerly awaited the US Supreme Court’s decision in the case of Andy Warhol...
Mar 16, 2023 ChatGPT emerges as US Copyright Office rejects copyright in AI-generated artwork By Menachem Kaplan Edward Beard Marissa Yu On 21 February 2023 the United States Copyright Office made a significant decision in the realm of AI, copyright and artwork. The...
Aug 01, 2022 Non-Fungible Tokens - Who Owns Exactly What Now? By Menachem Kaplan Brock Dahl Jennifer Lei With special thanks to summer associate, Julie Min. You just bought an NFT. But is it actually yours? The answer isn’t as clear as you...
May 18, 2022 Data Scraping Does It Again By Mili Astesiano Menachem Kaplan Timothy Howard Once again, hiQ wins the day in the continuous data scraping saga. In the most recent ruling, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals...
Jul 15, 2021 The Colorado Privacy Act and its Implications for Consumers and Businesses By Brock Dahl Menachem Kaplan Mark Appleton Colorado Governor Jared Polis recently signed into law the Colorado Privacy Act (“CPA”), set to go into effect on July 1, 2023. This...
Mar 25, 2021 The Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act, Part V By Peter Jaffe Menachem Kaplan In this finale to our series comparing the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act to the GDPR and CCPA/CPRA, we finally cover perhaps the...