Rights, Raps, and Robots: Drake’s Voice Mimicked by AI – Is it a ‘Hotline Bling’ or a Copyright Sting?

Rights, Raps, and Robots: Drake’s Voice Mimicked by AI – Is it a ‘Hotline Bling’ or a Copyright Sting?

  By: James Miller and Ajay Partap Gill Canadian copyright law, as embodied in the Copyright Act of Canada, seeks to strike a delicate balance between the rights of creators and the public interest in accessing and using creative works. The advent of AI generated voices in music has challenged the objectives of Copyright law […]

Stardust: copyright in biographical films

Stardust: copyright in biographical films

Ancient Roman philosopher Seneca writing to his friend on the shortness of life once said: “It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it”. Never before had I appreciated this slice of ancient wisdom more than on a cold summer night in 2021 when I decided […]

Using copyrighted images to train AI

Using copyrighted images to train AI

This lawsuit was briefly mentioned in last week’s news of the week and has particular relevance to what we’re currently covering in class. Getty images is currently suing Stability AI, an AI based image generator, alleging they copied 12 million images belonging to Getty to train it’s AI model. This case is particularly interesting to […]