The AI-Copyright Challenge: Exploring the Limits of Authorship and Exclusivity
Location:
Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre,
Old College
Date/time
Mon 6 November 2023
16:00-17:30
SCRIPT Centre is delighted to announce a guest talk on Artificial Intelligence and Copyright. The talk will be delivered by Dr Carys Craig, Osgoode Hall Law School, and will be chaired by Dr Smita Kheria, Edinburgh Law School. The talk will be followed by Q&A.
Abstract
The rapid rise of generative AI is challenging many of copyright’s core concepts from authorship and ownership to infringement and fair dealing. Whether in service of creativity or capital, copyright law is perfectly capable of absorbing this latest innovation—but to what end? Even more interesting than the doctrinal debates that AI provokes is the challenge it presents to revisit the purposes of copyright in the age of AI. With a view to authorship, expression, and the public interest at the heart of the copyright system, Craig argues that AI-generated outputs should be uncopyrightable, while AI-training inputs should be non-infringing.
Biography
Dr. Carys Craig is Associate Dean (Research & Institutional Relations) and an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, in Toronto, Canada. She is the also the Director of Osgoode’s Law & Technology Program, IP Osgoode, Academic Director of the Professional LLM Program in IP Law, and Editor-in-Chief of the Osgoode Hall Law Journal. Dr. Craig teaches and researches in the areas of copyright, trademarks, law and technology, and legal theory. Her award-winning scholarship has been cited with approval in several landmark copyright rulings by the Supreme Court of Canada. Dr. Craig holds an LL.B. (1st Cl Hons) from the University of Edinburgh, an LL.M. from Queen’s University, and an S.J.D. from the University of Toronto.
This event is in person only. The event is free and open to all but registration is required.