I’ve been busy in recent weeks writing my last project for the summer, a book chapter on AI and copyright for the next edition of Law, Policy and the Internet, edited by Lilian Edwards. This is a very popular textbook series because it presents chapters in a variety of Internet Read more
(This is the text of a recent short piece I published on SSRN, it’s short enough to be turned into a blog post, but it’s written in a more formal style than what habitual users are accustomed to). Copyright has been at the forefront of many of the policy Read more
It’s been a busy few weeks in the AI and copyright beat, and while I’ve been following all of the developments closely, I haven’t had the time to react to everything in the blog. However, with two first decisions handed down in the US, and one in the UK expected Read more
In a spectacular development in the AI wars, Disney and several studios have sued the AI image-generating company Midjourney for copyright infringement (complaint here). To say that this has generated quite a stir would be a monumental understatement akin to declaring that Thunderbolts* was a bit of a flop. Not Read more
Most people who have been paying attention to the copyright and AI debate in Europe have been expecting that at some point the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) would be tasked with interpreting some of the existing exceptions regarding text and data mining. Many assumed, myself included, Read more
Something curious has been occurring in the world of digital rights. Openness, once one of the cornerstones of Internet culture, has lost its shine. There used to be a time in which everything was open. We had open source, open access, open science, open content, open hardware, open source water, Read more
I was recently trying to buy a train ticket using a Web platform which shall remain nameless for obvious reasons. I have been using the site for years to buy train tickets in advance, and while it costs marginally more than buying it directly from the providers, it was still Read more
A common theme here at Llama Towers is to talk about our changing relationship with the Internet as a whole, and with social media specifically. I was both an early adopter of the Web and discussion forums, and even moderated a very busy site for a couple of years, which helped Read more
I’m currently on sabbatical finishing a couple of papers, and I wanted to find a figure for a footnote. How many daily users are there for generative AI apps? Simple question, but it turns out that it is quite difficult to find out! I searched through a few sources, but Read more
If you were online between March 25 and March 26, your timeline may have been flooded with a barrage of AI-generated images, a large number of which would have been existing photographs recreated using the style of Studio Ghibli’s anime. On March 25, Sam Altman announced on Twitter that they Read more