Communications Law
From Zilch to NIL: A Mini Presentation on NILs
Hi all! For my participation component, I did a mini presentation on college athlete NILs in the States. To access via Google Slides, click the image below:
Input or Output? Framing legal arguments in ChatGPT training model copyright cases
Generative AI raises a host of interesting legal issues. An area of large controversy involves the creation of large language models to train systems such as ChatGPT. Professor Festinger has mentioned the case of Margaret Atwood, specially the world-renowned author’s response when she found out pirated copies of her books were used to train AI. In […]
Diving into NFTs and IP
I got intrigued by the intersection of NFTs and IP: what intellectual property rights in the underlying work are granted to an NFT owner? Do NFT transactions impose particular IP infringement risks? How could creators and IP owners better protect their IP rights in the NFT world? What are NFTs? NFTs (non-fungible tokens) […]
The Role of Patent Law in Cleantech
Since last summer, when wildfires blazed through my hometown of Kelowna, I’ve been thinking a lot about the role of the law in supporting action to mitigate climate change. And IP law has a big role to play. Decreasing global CO2 emissions will require not only mass deployment of existing clean technologies, but also the development […]
Week 11 Fall 2023 – Slides & Video
Slides & video below…