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Authorship in the AI Age. Part 3 – A Proposed New Legal Standard – “Conceptual Orchestration”
In my second post I looked at the insidious influence of cognitive debt and outlined some of its ramifications. Traditional copyright has always assumed human authorship, which necessarily involves personal…
Artists and the threat of AI
With Jennifer Ward-Lealand taking on the global role as a Vice President of the International Federation of Actors, an umbrella body for Actors Equity, hopefully her organisation can start to…
Authorship in the AI Age – Part 2
In Part 1 of this series of articles: "The Search for a Wider Understanding Regarding Authorship and Fair Use," I looked at the recent Bartz v Anthropic and Suno decisions. In…
Authorship in the AI Age – Part 1 – The Search for a Wider Understanding Regarding Authorship and Fair Use
Last week I had the pleasure of going to a private viewing of the new feature film "Moss & Freud" which was produced by leading Kiwi film producer Matthew Metcalfe.…
Further Wake-up call for Artists and Authors!
When coming across a Getty Image online it is difficult to avoid seeing its prominent watermark accompanied by a notice that “Images may be subject to copyright” but as we…
Trials with AI “jurors” like ChatGPT, Grok, and Claude still some way off!
UNC professor of law in jurisprudence and ethics, Eric Muller, acted as an observer and commentator of a mock trial in the US. He was not overly impressed and pointed…
Battle of the Ubers Begins
On thursday, I had an interesting day in the Auckland High Court, appearing with Lucy Hudson, seeking an interim injunction on behalf of our client, Uber Group, a well-established Whangarei…
Welcome to Commodity-Land
I don’t often agree with Winston Peters, but I do on this. I’m pleased to finally see one of our leaders asking some hard questions about Fonterra’s proposed sell-off of…
Important Court of Appeal Decision on the Assessment of Confusing Similarity
In Manuka Doctor Ltd v Hill [2025] NZCA 516, the New Zealand Court of Appeal has just handed down a majority decision (Hinton and Edwards JJ), finding that the marks…