It’s been a while since we covered the AI authorship debate here at Llama Towers, despite it being one of the first AI legal questions we discussed here nearly 10 years ago (time flies when you’re having fun, eh?). The gap has largely been because everyone’s attention has been centred Read more
Unless you have been in an isolated Yoga retreat for the last week, you will certainly have heard of DeepSeek. This is a new model from a Chinese startup that has taken the tech world by storm, inducing a Sputnik-like panic in the US, and prompting a sudden drop in Read more
The UK government has published its latest consultation on AI and copyright. This will explore several aspects of AI and copyright and is likely to become a highly contentious issue in the coming months, with a clear clash between the interests of the UK’s creative industries and the government’s aim Read more
I’m on holiday, so I’m not likely to be writing much until next year unless there’s a big development. I’ve been hearing good things about OpenAI’s latest model, so I asked it to write a blog post about AI sentience in my style, and here is the result. It lacks Read more
On October 30 2024, the District Court of Amsterdam decided on a very interesting case about copyright infringement of RSS feeds, and I believe that some of the legal issues involved could prove to be relevant to open legal issues surrounding AI and copyright, particularly about the application of the Read more
We are in the midst of a substantial technological revolution embodied by artificial intelligence, and whilst the technology is frequently overhyped, there is little doubt that it will continue to exert a significant influence on everyday life. Technological developments have been accompanied by lawsuits, policy papers, and even legislative action Read more
On the 20th of October 2024, this blog turned 20 years old. I’ve been both dreading and looking forward to this milestone. On the one hand, this is probably one of the longest single projects I’ve ever undertaken, and it has resulted in a written corpus that I cannot even Read more
Copyright AI nerds have been eagerly awaiting a decision in the German case of Kneschke v LAION (previous blog post about the case here), and yesterday we got a ruling (text of the decision in German here, courtesy of Mirko Brüß). In short, LAION was successful in its defence against Read more
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 is a rather basic list of things that I see people getting wrong all the time, Read more
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, this post will only cover the modern conflicts that arose after the Internet came into being. This short Read more