NLS Class of 2003 Webinar On Artificial Intelligence: Spotlight On Perpetua Ogwuche
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The above are the names of just a few of the numerous artists, authors, and entities that have filed lawsuits against Artificial Intelligence (AI) companies for copyright infringement of their works. The Authors Guild (in the USA), also wrote an open letter signed by over 8,500 authors, to request compensation from AI companies for training their AI applications on their works.
It is no longer news that Generative AIs (Gen AIs), trained with publicly available materials and data on the internet, can produce books, paintings, pictures, and other creative content within minutes of being prompted to do so.
The numerous suits already filed against tech companies like OpenAI, GitHub, Microsoft, Meta, Stability AI, and other tech companies in the AI space are not only providing opportunities to legal practitioners on both sides of the aisle to earn their keep but they also provide great opportunities for lawyers, judges and academics in the legal profession, to argue, define, and expound the rights and responsibilities of each of the parties to the suits and thereby guide policies for AI use and development.
The questions of whether creatives whose works were used to train AI to produce the amazing works it produces and who owns the copyright to AI-generated content are questions that Perpetua Ogwuche, one of the three panellists on the maiden edition of the NLS Class of 2003 webinar series, attempted to answer in her paper titled, Artificial Intelligence: The Legal Implications of Intellectual Property Rights for AI-Generated Inventions.
So, let’s introduce you properly to Perpetua Ogwuche, a licensed Nigerian attorney with a Bachelor of Laws degree from Igbinedion University Okada and a member of the Nigerian Bar Association.
She is an Associate at Nwigwe LP and has a keen interest in Information Security and AI (Artificial Intelligence) Policy. She is presently a Research Group Member at the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Policy (CAIDP) and a member of the International Information System Security Certification Consortium (ISC2).
Who owns the copyrights, patents, trademarks, and other intellectual property rights to AI-generated content? Are the members of the Authors Guild and other creatives who demanded compensation for the use of their works in the training of AI entitled to compensation? Should lawyers feel threatened that Gen AIs can produce legal documents in minutes? Can AI sue and be sued?
Find out answers to these questions and more when you attend the webinar scheduled for the 9th of March 2024 at 10 am.
Register to attend here.
