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March 06, 2023 - Artificial Intelligence
Copyright Office Denies Claim to Copyright in Generative AI Images
By: Joseph C. Gratz
The U.S. Copyright Office has denied an attempt to register copyright in images created using the Midjourney generative AI tool. The reasoning of its decision sharply limits the potential paths to receiving copyright in images created using generative AI tools, even where that output is generated
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February 21, 2023 - Artificial Intelligence
Webinar - Responsible AI – Ethical Dilemma Training
By: Alex van der Wolk and Lokke Moerel
The digital revolution transforms business models and presents new privacy issues and ethical dilemmas. Companies deploying AI are often worried about legal compliance. Whether new AI applications are embraced by regulators, society, and customers (and therefore actually generate revenue) depends on ethical considerations rather
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February 08, 2023 - Artificial Intelligence
Are Outputs of AI Models Copyrightable?
By: Evangeline Phang, Tessa Schwartz and Aaron P. Rubin
Heather Whitney, Evangeline Phang, Tessa Schwartz, and Aaron Rubin authored an article for Law360 covering whether the outputs of generative artificial intelligence tools are copyrightable. "It may benefit companies that are using and improving AI technology to continuously identify and track the contributions by the company's
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January 30, 2023 - Artificial Intelligence
AI Trends for 2023 - Ethical Technology as Part of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Framework
By: Susan H. Mac Cormac
Technology is known for solving some of the world’s most complex problems, especially through automation and AI. However, when the right guardrails are not in place, ethical issues arise, such as malfunctioning tools, data or algorithms that exclude certain persons, intrusive technologies that violate
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January 17, 2023 - Artificial Intelligence
AI Trends for 2023 - UK Targets Innovation Not Regulation for AI Sector
By: Alistair Maughan
During 2023, the UK will continue to position itself as a leader in the AI sector — by emphasizing support for the AI industry rather than pushing forward a legislative agenda. In 2022, the UK government published an AI Regulation Policy Paper and AI
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January 03, 2023 - Artificial Intelligence
AI Trends for 2023 - IP Protection for AI-Assisted Technology
By: Stephanie Lynn Sharron
While the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit made clear this year that only humans can be inventors and that an AI program itself cannot obtain a patent (see our prior coverage of Thaler v. Vidal ), this in no way means that
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December 29, 2022 - Artificial Intelligence
AI Trends for 2023 - Budgeting for the Future of AI
By: Erin M. Bosman and Matt Robinson
In 2020, Congress passed the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act (NAIIA) to strengthen Artificial Intelligence (AI) advances and innovations across multiple sectors by providing investments to National AI Research Institutes under the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office (NAIIO). The NAIIA requires the NAIIO to
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December 28, 2022 - Artificial Intelligence
AI Trends for 2023 - Environmental Law
By: William F. Tarantino and Cedar Hobbs
The advent of AI is drastically changing the environmental law landscape. Until recently, it was nearly impossible to track the environmental impacts of corporate activities or products. The sheer immensity and complexity of the numbers shrouded our understanding of environmental inputs and outputs. But
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December 23, 2022 - Artificial Intelligence
AI Trends for 2023 - Public Attention to AI Will Continue to Rise
By: Tessa Schwartz
While the use of AI tools is not new, public awareness of, and debate around, these tools will continue to increase as these tools become more widely available. Talk of AI and in particular generative AI is now ubiquitous in mainstream news media and
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December 22, 2022 - Artificial Intelligence
AI Trends for 2023 - AI Diagnostic Tools and Cybersecurity Risk
By: Erin M. Bosman and Spencer N. Migotsky
Cybersecurity is a key risk factor for emerging applications of artificial intelligence to medical devices. Products failing to address security risks may leave themselves vulnerable to cyberattacks. Bad actors target hospitals and healthcare systems, in particular through ransomware, credential harvesting, or device theft. According
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Topic Archives: Artificial Intelligence

Copyright Office Denies Claim to Copyright in Generative AI Images

By: Joseph C. Gratz

Webinar - Responsible AI – Ethical Dilemma Training

By: Alex van der Wolk and Lokke Moerel

Are Outputs of AI Models Copyrightable?

By: Evangeline Phang, Tessa Schwartz and Aaron P. Rubin

AI Trends for 2023 - Ethical Technology as Part of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Framework

By: Susan H. Mac Cormac

AI Trends for 2023 - UK Targets Innovation Not Regulation for AI Sector

By: Alistair Maughan

AI Trends for 2023 - IP Protection for AI-Assisted Technology

By: Stephanie Lynn Sharron

AI Trends for 2023 - Budgeting for the Future of AI

By: Erin M. Bosman and Matt Robinson

AI Trends for 2023 - Environmental Law

By: William F. Tarantino and Cedar Hobbs

AI Trends for 2023 - Public Attention to AI Will Continue to Rise

By: Tessa Schwartz

AI Trends for 2023 - AI Diagnostic Tools and Cybersecurity Risk

By: Erin M. Bosman and Spencer N. Migotsky