<div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><span class="gmail-kma42e"><span><b>The Institute for Ethics in Public Life invites you to join us for "Intellectual Property and AI" on Wednesday, April 30, at 3:30pm (in-person and on Zoom) with special guest Prof. John Chambers of the Department of Communications Studies.</b><br> <br></span></span><div style="margin-left:40px"><span class="gmail-kma42e"><span>With the release of ChatGPT-3.5 in November, 2022, "artificial intelligence" programs took a big step forward in capabilities. These new "generative AIs" (large-language models -LLMs - and other AIs trained using deep learning techniques) offer vast new possibilities to users. At the same time, the creation and training of these models and their public use raise a host of ethical and legal issues, of which a big one is related to intellectual property. Intellectual property laws, such as copyright, are important for protecting the rights of those who create and invent. This becomes an issue for LLMs and the like because they are typically "trained" using information (text, images, etc.) available on the internet. While this information may be publicly available online, it is often still protected by intellectual property laws. This raises an important legal and ethical issue - is it appropriate and legal for the developers of AI models to train their models using IP owned by others? Does this fall under "fair use", or is this illegal expropriation of intellectual property? If the latter, what kind of legal penalties could these firms suffer?</span></span><br><span class="gmail-kma42e"><span></span></span><br><span class="gmail-kma42e"><span>Another issue raised by these models is who, if anyone, has intellectual property rights over their output? The individual who prompted the AI to generate the output? The company that created the AI? No one?</span></span><br></div><div style="margin-left:40px"><span class="gmail-kma42e"><span></span></span></div><span class="gmail-kma42e"><span><br></span></span><div style="margin-left:40px"><span class="gmail-kma42e"><span>There are currently more than 39 cases pending in U.S. <font><span><span>courts dealing with the issue of copyright and AI. Many of these have yet to reach the discovery phase, so the legal questions they raise have yet to be answered. However, some cases have been resolved, providing some insight into how, and how well, intellectual property law can deal with the issues raised by generative AIs. To help understand these issues, we'll explore:</span></span></font><ol><li><font>A brief history of copyright.</font></li><li><font>What it means to be an author in the current age of AI.</font></li><li><font>Some of the interesting cases still pending in the court system.</font></li></ol><p>Professor John M. Chambers is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies. He teaches courses in broadcast journalism, television station management, television studio production and television station operations which gives students the opportunity to run the campus television station, Plattsburgh State Television. He received his bachelor’s degree in television and radio production from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and his law degree from Creighton University. In addition to an extensive career in television production that includes founding a public access TV station and 12 years of directing live television in a variety of markets, he has been a practicing attorney and taught law for four years in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. His research interests include Artificial Intelligence and its use in broadcast media and production.</p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Please join us in person in the Thomas Moran Seminar Room, Institute for Ethics in Public Life (Hawkins 233) or on Zoom. </span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span><br><span class="gmail-kma42e"><span><span><span></span></span></span></span><br><span class="gmail-kma42e"><span>Daniel Lake is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.</span></span><br><span class="gmail-kma42e"><span></span></span><br><span class="gmail-kma42e"><span>Topic: AI and Intellectual Property</span></span><br><span class="gmail-kma42e"><span>Time: Apr 30, 2025 03:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)</span></span><br><span class="gmail-kma42e"><span>Join Zoom Meeting</span></span><br><span class="gmail-kma42e"><span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://plattsburgh.zoom.us/j/82350596253&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1746109555839556&usg=AOvVaw2CefHitJww1vp_y2tg2CvP" target="_blank">https://plattsburgh.zoom.us/j/82350596253</a></span></span><br><span class="gmail-kma42e"><span></span></span><br><span class="gmail-kma42e"><span>Meeting ID: 823 5059 6253</span></span>
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