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Meta’s AI Arriving in Europe: Privacy Disputes Concealing Copyright Concerns

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Photo by Ricardo Gomez Angel on Unsplash Since 22 May 2024, Meta has notified to European users of Instagram and Facebook – through in-app notifications and emails – an update of its privacy policy, linked to the upcoming implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in the area.

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Road to Nowhere: Parliament Breaks For the Summer With Little Accomplished on Digital Policy

Michael Geist

The government’s most controversial digital-related bills including online harms (Bill C-63) and privacy and AI regulation (Bill C-27) barely moved during the session, a function of badly bloated legislation that create at least as many problems as they solve. That outcome is at best a coin toss at this stage.

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AI Spending is Not an AI Strategy: Why the Government’s Artificial Intelligence Plan Avoids the Hard Governance Questions

Michael Geist

The money may be useful – though given the massive private sector investment in the space right now a better case for public money is needed – but tossing millions at each issue is not the equivalent of grappling with AI safety, copyright or regulatory challenges. Second, $5.1

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UK Science, Innovation and Technology Committee Report on AI

The IPKat

This Kat gave evidence at the Inquiry in the session focusing on the impact of AI on copyright and the creative industries (you can watch the session here ). Privacy: AI can allow individuals to be identified and personal information about them to be used in ways beyond what the public wants. Image: Riana Harvey 2.

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Open AI’s vison for a social contract – of things to come…

Kluwer Copyright Blog

OpenAI’s vision for a fair AI ecosystem The ADAI mentions copyright only in passing, but it is fairly obvious that the desire to ‘deal’ with pending copyright infringement claims (largely in the US) lies at the core of this ambitious statement. OpenAI adds that new features will be added in the future.

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ERA IP-focused events and courses return with 25% discount for IPKat readers

The IPKat

Accredited European Patent Litigation Certificate Course Trier & Online tutorial - Course start: 25 September 2024; Course end: 16 May 2025 ERA will offer a high-standard course giving patent attorneys the best tools to understand the legal framework and procedural rules necessary to litigate before the UPC.

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The Bill C-11 Compromise That Never Came

Michael Geist

The emphasis on compromise is why stakeholders rarely walk away entirely happy on most issues that feature a diversity of views, whether it is copyright, privacy, or Internet regulation. Yet with Bill C-11, compromise from the government never came. The lengths the government was willing to go to avoid compromise still astonishes me.