Generative AI Meets Copyright - Pamela Samuelson
Schedule
Wed Apr 26 2023 at 12:00 pm to 01:00 pm
Location
Sutardja Dai Hall - Banatao Auditorium | Berkeley, CA
About this Event
Speaker:
Pamela Samuelson, Richard M. Sherman Distinguished Professor of Law, UC Berkeley
About Talk:
The question that has intrigued copyright professionals since the mid-1960s is whether computer-generated texts and images would be eligible for this law's protection. Early on, the consensus was that artificial intelligence (AI) is just a tool, like a camera, so humans could claim copyright in machine-generated outputs to which they made contributions. Now the consensus is that AI-generated texts and images are not copyrightable for the lack of a human author. The urgent questions today focus on whether ingesting in-copyright works as training data is copyright infringement and whether the outputs of AI programs are infringing derivative works of the ingested images. Four recent lawsuits, one involving GitHub's Copilot and three involving Stable Diffusion, will address these issues.
About Speaker:
Pamela Samuelson has been a member of the UC Berkeley School of Law faculty since 1996. She has written and spoken extensively about the challenges that new information technologies pose for traditional legal regimes, especially for intellectual property law. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a contributing editor of Communications of the ACM, a past fellow of the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, a member of the American Law Institute, and an honorary professor of the University of Amsterdam.
About the Series:
The CITRIS Research Exchange and Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab (BAIR) present a distinguished speaker series exploring the recent breakthroughs of AI, its broader societal implications and its future potential. Each seminar takes place on Wednesdays from noon to 1:00 p.m. in the Banatao Auditorium at Sutardja Dai Hall on the UC Berkeley campus and will also be livestreamed on YouTube. All talks are free and open to the public.
Where is it happening?
Sutardja Dai Hall - Banatao Auditorium, 2594 Hearst Avenue, Berkeley, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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