Mapping Copyright’s Application to Generative Artificial Intelligence
September 29Ìý| 9:30 - 4:30pm | Hybrid
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Modern copyright law arose when existing modes of regulation for information technology proved inadequate to meet the challenge of transformative information technology.Ìý Over the last 200 years, by contrast, the copyright system has met other such challenges – from the rise of electronic mass media to the digital turn in expression, more or less successfully – often by adapting or even fictionalizing existing doctrine.Ìý Now, we are asked to consider what adjustments may be required to accommodate Generative Artificial Intelligence, the next new technology to challenge the doctrinal paradigm of copyright.Ìý
This program will explain and discuss the specific legal issues presented by generative artificial intelligence under US copyright law.
Agenda
9:00Ìý Registration and Breakfast
9:30ÌýÌýOpening - Michael Carroll,ÌýProfessor, American University Washington College of Law
9:45-10:30 -ÌýA Copyright-Relevant Primer on Generative AIÌý
Michael Carroll
Charles Duan, Assistant Professor, American University Washington College of LawÌý
10:30-10:45ÌýÌýCoffeeÌý
10:45-11:15ÌýLocating AI in the Copyright History and DoctrineÌý- Core copyright concepts implicated in thinking about AI and how copyright has dealt with past technological challenges.
Peter Jaszi, Professor Emeritus, American University Washington College of LawÌý
Meredith Jacob,Ìý Director, Project on Copyright and Open Licensing, Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, American University Washington College of Law
11:15-11:45ÌýÌýUS Copyright Office AI initiativeÌý
Robert J. Kasunic, Associate Register of Copyrights and Director of Registration Policy and Practice, USÌýCopyright OfficeÌý
12:00-1:00ÌýÌýLunch
1:00 - 1:45ÌýÌýDoctrinal Mapping of AI - Ingestion -ÌýHow the scope of copyright protection, the idea/expression distinction, fair use, and other copyright doctrines relate to machine learning and generative AI development.
Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý ÌýModerator/Lead: Michael Carroll
Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý ÌýDiscussant: Bernt Hugenholtz,ÌýProfessor Emeritus, University of Amsterdam Faculty of Law
Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý ÌýDiscussant: Brandon Butler,ÌýDirector Intellectual Property and Licensing, University of Virginia Library
1:45-2:30ÌýÌýDoctrinal Mapping of AI - Authorship -ÌýHow existing understandings of authorship, with its underlying model of human creativity, extend to the output of human/AI interactions.
Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Lead: Carys Craig,ÌýAssociate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Discussant: Seth Greenstein,ÌýPartner, Constantine Cannon
Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Discussant: Christophe Geiger,ÌýProfessor of Law, Luiss Guido Carli University, Rome
2:30-3:15ÌýÌýDoctrinal Mapping of AI - Authorship and Infringement -ÌýHow theÌý laws and norms about infringement, substantial similarity, independent creation, and fair use will be and should be applied to the products of generative AI toolsÌý
Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Lead: Sy Damle,ÌýPartner, Latham & Watkins
Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Discussant: Kristelia Garcia,ÌýProfessor, The Georgetown University Law Center
Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Discussant: Will Cross,ÌýDirector, Open Knowledge Center & Head of Information Policy, NC State University Libraries
3:30-4:30ÌýÌýGoing forward – law, policy, ethics, and norms
Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Moderator: Meredith Jacob
Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Panelist: Michael Madison,ÌýProfessor, University of Pittsburgh, School of Law
Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Panelist: Matthew Sag,ÌýProfessor, Emory University Law School
4:30-6:00ÌýÌýReception and Informal Discussion
Mapping Copyright's Application to Generative AI - AGENDA
Conference Attribution
This meeting and the Jaszi Distinguished Lecture are funded by the Washington College of Law, PIJIP Alumni, Microsoft, and other supporters of the PIJIP Impact Projects.