New joint IPKat/BLACA event! The topic is ... Copyright and Artificial Intelligence

Pinocchio, arguably one of
the first cases of AI,
and his Kat Figaro 

Artificial Intelligence and copyright: best friends, enemies, or ... frenemies?

Find out by attending this new joint IPKat/BLACA event, which will take place at London’s ReedSmith offices in the evening of Thursday, 10 January 2019.

The event, which will be led by Gaetano Dimita (Queen Mary University of London) and myself, will start with talks by:

• Mark Grierson (UAL Creative Computing Institute) on the technical potential of AI creativity, and
• David Price (Google) on the relationship between copyright and text and data mining.

The panel will discuss issues such as:

• Whether and to what extent copyright law can accommodate AI-created works;
• Whether the EU approach to text and data mining will support the development of and investments in AI in Europe;
• Whether human authors will and/or should be replaced by machines;
• The preferable regulatory approach to be pursued in Europe and in the UK, also post-Brexit.

If you wish to attend and you are also a BLACA member, register here; otherwise click here (password: IPKatRiseofAI).

Hurry up because places are limited. See you in January!