Course Video & Notes

Two headlines, 31 years apart – same mistake. As Mark Twain said in 1897 “Rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated.” Looking at what has happened to IP law generally and copyright law specifically in the 33 years since that Wired Magazine article, you would be hard pressed to find an area of law that has, by almost any measure you may wish to use, grown more. So will the New Yorker’s copycat (how ironic) sentiment of just a year ago similarly herald a new golden age of growth for these areas of law. For what it’s worth, I would say yes and here’s why. We pretty well know that the A.I. mirror (always analyzing backwards through it’s funhouse lens) is good at description and can appear competent to the untrained eye when it comes to faux analysis. But actual forward looking, strategic critical thinking, with reliably repeatable results is just not it’s thing at the present time, or the LLM road we are on. So until new A.I. models are developed (so called “World Models” seemingly being the most promising), when it comes to IP Law what A.I. is not good at, is precisely what well trained human lawyers with excellent judgment are good at. So mark my prediction that IP Law will not become extinct at any point in your upcoming careers. So “live long and prosper” as my favourite character in the Star Trek universe often said.

Jon