An Overview Of Key IP Issues In AI

Given the recent explosion of interest in Generative AI that came along with the introduction of ChatGPT in November, and the fact that Proskauer is advising clients on AI issues across almost all practice areas, the firm put together an integrated cross-disciplinary series of webinars designed to answer many of the questions presented by this emerging technology.

The first webinar in the series, "An overview of key IP issues in AI," tackled several emerging IP issues related to generative AI ("GAI"), the latest example of new technologies bumping up against existing IP laws and challenging the established concepts of IP registration, infringement and fair use. The panel ran through multiple IP-related issues that are being raised by stakeholders. Content owners are wondering if GAI developers have already infringed their works during the AI training process and, in some cases, also when allegedly derivative works are produced in the GAI output; at the same time,