There has been a significant amount of debate about whether AI-generated works should enjoy copyright protection or not. Generally, a work may enjoy copyright protection if it is Even if the same argument is made for AI-generated content, the question remains as to whom will the copyright protection be attributed. The programmer? The AI itself…

Online video games, particularly those with subscription models, create social spaces for players to interact, engage and play with each other online. The communities and interactions that spawn from these spaces often contain and mimic many of the types of interactions present in traditional forms of social media. With more explicit examples like miiverse, to…

From January to June 2023, TikTok received over 189,000 copyright removal requests, which resulted in the successful removal of 60% of those videos (i.e., 113,000 videos). While TikTok requires users to submit requests to have copyright infringing content removed, YouTube offers a range of automated tools that proactively limit copyright infringement on its platform. The…

Hi all, Tomorrow in class we will be doing our presentation on Developments in EU Copyright Law and AI Regulation. This news article introduces part of what we will be talking about. If you have time to read it ahead of tomorrow that would be great. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/08/eu-agrees-historic-deal-with-worlds-first-laws-to-regulate-ai Best, Amy and Mads

Hello fellow classmates! The author of this dissertation, Greg Young-ing, was a professor of mine during my early undergrad years at UBCO (admittedly those were quite a few years ago now..). As a non-Indigenous person who was taught from a highly euro-centric perspective for much of my educational life, Greg’s Indigenous Studies class had a…