New joint IPKat/BLACA event! The topic is ... Copyright and Artificial Intelligence

Pinocchio, arguably one of
the first cases of AI,
and his Kat Figaro 

Artificial Intelligence and copyright: best friends, enemies, or ... frenemies?

Find out by attending this new joint IPKat/BLACAevent, which will take place at London�s ReedSmith offices in the evening of Thursday, 10 January 2019.

The event, which will be led by Gaetano Dimita(Queen Mary University of London) and myself, will start with talks by:

• Mark Grierson (UAL Creative Computing Institute) on the technical potential of AI creativity, and
• David Price (Google) on the relationship between copyright and text and data mining.

The panel will discuss issues such as:

• Whether and to what extent copyright law can accommodate AI-created works;
• Whether the EU approach to text and data mining will support the development of and investments in AI in Europe;
• Whether human authors will and/or should be replaced by machines;
• The preferable regulatory approach to be pursued in Europe and in the UK, also post-Brexit.

If you wish to attend and you are also a BLACA member, register here; otherwise click here (password: IPKatRiseofAI).

Hurry up because places are limited. See you in January!