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Generative AI and Training AI Models: Dragging Copyright into The Brave New World.

Generative AI and Training AI Models:

Dragging Copyright Into The Brave New World

Much has been made in recent years, and at an accelerating pace, about artificial intelligence (“AI”) and its place in our lives – our workplaces, our society, our world. But whether AI ultimately comes to dominate – or end! – life on this planet, or instead to greatly assist humans in their quest to improve that life, AI presents issues...

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Celebrating 100 Years of Changes in Intellectual Property

Celebrating 100 Years of Changes in Intellectual Property

100 Years of IP Excellence​

Close your eyes and picture a small patent firm, in the New York Wall Street area, in 1923. That’s where it all started - Nolte Lackenbach Siegel (NLS). Back when engineering college textbooks on electronics focused on vacuum tubes - transistors being merely a footnote –

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Artificial Intelligence & Copyright: No Monkey Business! Only Humans Need Apply.

Artificial Intelligence & Copyright:

No Monkey Business! Only Humans Need Apply.

Artificial Intelligence can do many things. But one thing it cannot do is register a U.S. copyright. That is because, under U.S. law, only a human being – not a Macaque monkey and not an AI machine...

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