This intensive two-day course provides a comprehensive, comparative analysis of the evolving legal and policy landscape at the intersection of Intellectual Property (IP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). You will explore pressing legal challenges, including the copyright protection for AI training data, the patentability and copyrightability of AI-generated outputs, and the balance between proprietary interests and the public interest in research and the development of "Public-oriented AI."
The learning experience will culminate in a practical hands-on exercise in which you will draft a model international legal instrument aimed at ensuring fair remuneration for creators while safeguarding the rights of researchers and public interest organisations developing AI infrastructure and systems. This legal instrument will focus on a range of factors to be used in distinguishing research and public interest uses of AI from commercial competitive uses.
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Objectives
- Critically analyse the legal implications of using copyrighted and patented works for AI model training under different international jurisdictions
- Evaluate the criteria for granting copyright and patent protection to content and inventions created by or with the assistance of AI
- Compare the legal exceptions for Text and Data Mining (TDM) in key jurisdictions and their impact on scientific and public interest research
- Debate the policy arguments for and against different models of creator remuneration in the age of generative AI
- Understand the geopolitical and philosophical differences driving comparative AI and IP regulatory approaches (e.g., risk-based vs. rights-based)
- Develop a list of factors which might be used to distinguish public interest AI from commercial AI
- Collaboratively draft a policy instrument addressing complex international IP issues related to AI
Speakers
The Course will be directed by Sean Flynn and Ben Cashdan of the Centre on Knowledge Governance, Geneva Graduate Institute. Guest lecturers will participate in person or online to bring comparative expertise from jurisdictions such as India, Brazil, China and the African continent, in addition to the US and EU.
SCHOLARSHIPS
10 scholarships will be available for highly motivated government delegates from developing countries or representatives of public interest organisations who participate in multilateral policy processes on copyright, AI and the rights of researchers.
Who is this programme for
This programme is particularly relevant for mid- to senior level practitioners from various organisations working at the intersection of intellectual property and AI policy or scholarship, such as:
- Policymakers and participants in domestic policy making forums
- Professionals in the fields of governmental affairs, research, cultural heritage, law, science and technology and related fields
- Graduate and post-graduate students and researchers
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