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The yawning gap between traditional copyright principles and technological change
In my address to the Asia Pacific Copyright Association conference on Wednesday, I argued that copyright law is no longer fit for purpose, and its difficulties will only worsen without…
Asia-Pacific Copyright Association Conference
On Wednesday, 28 October, I had the great pleasure of being one of two keynote speakers at the Asia-Pacific Copyright Association Conference in Auckland. My presentation was titled “From Reproduction…
Authorship in the AI Age – Part 8 – Looking ahead – A Proposed New Framework
In this, my last post in this series, having looked in the previous post (Part 7) at joint authorship as a possible yardstick for law reform in this area, I…
The Dupes Dilemma
Had an interesting interview this morning with Mike Hoskings on Newstalk ZB on the ongoing problem that New Zealand designers and clothing manufacturers have with fast fashion copycatting: The interview…
Authorship in the AI Age – Part 7 – Using Joint Authorship Principles as a Guide
In a previous post (Part 5 of this series) I looked at a range of issues that are testing the boundaries of copyright law and the principles that underpin them.…
BSA gets the Chop
The Government's scrapping of the Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) has drawn applause from some sources but also questions from others who ask whether reform rather than removal might have been the…
Authorship in the AI Age – Part 6 – An update on the important “fair use” concept of pastiche
In Part 4 of this series I dealt with derivative works, homogenisation and pastiche. I also referred to Eleonora Rosati’s article discussing AG Emiliou’s advice to the CJEU in what…
Authorship in the AI Age – Part 5 – Can generative AI with or without human support be genuinely creative?
In my previous post (Part 4 in the series) I discussed a range of topics including whether derivative works are treated as original in some jurisdictions, for example the EU,…
Authorship in the AI Age – Part 4 -Derivative Works, Homogenisation and Pastiche
In my previous post, Part 3 - I put forward a proposal for a new legal standard, which I call “Conceptual Orchestration”. This follows on from my discussion of the…