Study Group

AI Study Group: August 2024

28 August 20241 min read

Roger Mitchell treated us to an hour’s talk about AI and how IP and copyright is impacted. The engaging talk was necessarily wide-ranging, and generated a lot of discussion. There were a few main points I took away:

That the laws in the region in which you are operating determine the copyright/IP infringement
That prior art (like whether something is a derived work or not) is not straightforward to demonstrate
Often the training is more important to the technology than the end-usage, but the end-usage determines the region for legal purposes (as it is where the act of creation that occurs)
If creating software, in some regions patenting may be a protection

Nothing in this summary (or indeed in the talk) should be taken as legal advice!

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