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AI Art and Copyright Law

/ Eddie Godino / Leave a comment

AI has taken the world by storm, and a plethora of new legal questions have come along with it. Issues relating to AI have only just begun to make their way to the courts, so it may be a while before we have concrete answers, but that doesn’t mean we can’t consider the implications in the meantime.

AI was the central topic of Ropes & Gray’s 6th Annual International IP Summit at BC Law’s campus last month. While the functions AI can serve are almost too many to discuss, one especially interesting application of AI is to generate art. The song “Heart on My Sleeve” used AI to emulate the voices and styles of Drake and The Weeknd with eerie accuracy, and the photo that took first place the Sony World Photography Awards was later revealed to be the product of AI. 

“The Electrician,” created by Boris Eldagsen using AI, which took first place at the Sony World Photography Awards

The popularity of AI-generated art is already having an impact on copyright law. I had a chance to speak with Joseph Liu, accredited scholar and copyright professor here at BC Law, to break down some of the problems posed by AI in the copyright space. 

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The Law of Everything

/ Thomas R. Blakely / 1 Comment

A consistent theme of my past three years in law school has been the parallel between learning the law, and how both its practice and pretense have seemingly become the epicenter of everything. 

It’s not just what has become something of a national sport of canceling, suing, impeaching, boycotting, censoring, deplatforming, overriding, misinforming, deposing, doxxing, room-reading and of course, vibe-checking—but also the tendency of today’s political and legal intelligentsia to continuously find new things to complicate and extend “the law” into.

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Stories from the Public Interest Front Lines

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It has been and continues to be a privilege to witness some of the most vulnerable moments of a person’s life, to stand with them, and try to help. The young people with whom I’ve worked have radically different stories than my own, and I imagine different from most law students. My years spent working with them have shown me that while ongoing assistance and intervention in domestic, educational and religious environments is crucial, it can only do so much in the face of a legal system which, for example, occasionally punishes children for problems for which they are not directly responsible. These young people deserve someone fighting on their side who has walked alongside them and experienced a piece of their story. Here are three that have stayed with me. I’ve changed names, but otherwise told them as they happened.

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When Jackson’s foster mom dropped him off at the ER, she gave the nurses a piece of advice: don’t let him play dinosaur inside. This was passed along to the director of the behavioral and mental health unit at a different hospital where he ended up, and was repeated to every staff member who worked with him: no dinosaur inside.

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