Tag: Congress

Submission to Congress in Wake of AI Concerns

In July at a Senate hearing about Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property, several Senators and witnesses floated the possibility of adopting a new federal right of publicity or a more limited "digital impersonation" or digital replica law.  In light of these calls and the seriousness with which they are being taken, I prepared a two-pager...

Federal Right of Publicity Takes Center Stage in Senate Hearing on AI

On July 12th, the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Intellectual Property held its second hearing about artificial intelligence (AI) and intellectual property, this one was to focus expressly on “copyright” law. Although copyright was mentioned many times during the almost two-hour session and written testimony considered whether the use of unlicensed training data was copyright...