Partner Andrew Gray provided his insights in IPWatchdog’s roundup of what IP practitioners will be keeping on their radar in the new year, noting that artificial intelligence (AI) will “remain the hottest topic in IP.”
“While the questions that need to be answered about AI are evolving, one interesting area is how training data might be licensed in the future. Courts are currently addressing the question of whether unauthorized use of an author’s works to train an AI constitutes copyright infringement,” explained Andrew. “In the years to come, we will learn the answer to not only that question, but also whether the training data author has any rights in creations generated by such an AI?”