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From Zilch to NIL: A Mini Presentation on NILs

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

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 […]

The Role of Patent Law in Cleantech

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

Week 11 Fall 2023 – Slides & Video

Slides & video below…

A Whole “Reggae-Ton” Of Trouble: The Lawsuit That Challenges a Genre.

A Whole “Reggae-Ton” Of Trouble: The Lawsuit That Challenges a Genre.

  Background Throughout 2023, an array of artists ranging from Bad Bunny, Daddy Yankee, and Pitbull have been in a legal showdown with the progenitors of Reggaeton. Steely and Clevie (“S&C”) –– two musical producers from Jamaica –– allege that more than 150 popular artists, songwriters and record companies have used their copyrighted works without permission. […]

Four Notes

Four Notes

I was reading the following post on the class site, and it reminded me of how technically complicated musical copyright could be at times. An issue that often comes is what makes music original enough to qualify for copyright protection? In the US, I found a case that does not give an exact answer, but […]

Kendall Jenner is that you? Meta’s New AI Characters

Kendall Jenner is that you? Meta’s New AI Characters

A few months ago, an Instagram account that looked like supermodel Kendall Jenner popped up on my feed and introduced herself as Billie. At first I was confused about this, wondering if it was a new advertisement or brand deal that Jenner was participating in. Wanting to know more, I clicked on the account to […]