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…
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…
One of the most challenging aspects of generative AI for legal education has been its potential use in assessment. There have been some polls conducted, and large numbers of students admit to using AI in their assessments. Anecdotally I’ve heard as much from my own students, and while few would Read more…
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…