Impact of AI on IP
Friday, 14 February 2020 marked the deadline for submission of comments and suggestions on WIPO draft issues paper on impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on intellectual property (IP). Through such open process, WIPO aims to identify the most pressing issues and formulate important questions in regards to ever more ubiquitous use of AI, and especially its impacts on IP.
Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič, Intellectual Property Institute was one of the members of the Global Expert Network on Copyright User Rights who endorsed Joint Comment on WIPO’s call on the Impact of AI on IP Policy. Sean Flynn, Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property at American University Washington College of Law organised the process which focused on issues of text and data mining. Other signatories include Michael Carroll, Matthew Sag, Lucie Guibault, Thomas Margoni, Brandon Butler, Allan Rocha de Souza, Peter Jaszi, João Pedro Quintais, Christophe Geiger, Caroline Ncube, Ben White, Arul George Scaria, Carolina Botero & Carys Craig.
The Comment is available here.
Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič also co-drafted comments for Communia and Wikimedia Deutschland with dr. Justus Dreyling, Project Manager International Regulation, Wikimedia Deutschland . The document is available here.
All other submissions of comments are available here.
The Grand Board of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) finally ruled that the figurative sign ‘COVIDIOT’ cannot be registered as an EU trademark.
The 4th Open Knowledge Day took place on Tuesday 17 October 2023, with an accompanying workshop on 18 October 2023. This year it was organised by the Open Data and Intellectual Property Institute (ODIPI) and supported by Knowledge Rights 21 (KR21).
We invite you to the fourth Open Knowledge Day and the workshop, which will take place this year within the framework of the programme and with the support of Knowledge Rights 21. The event will bring together experts from different European countries to discuss two topics: the first part will deal with the legal basis for data analytics, which is a key part of machine learning and related artificial intelligence, and the general exception for research. In the second part, open science in theory and practice will be presented both in Slovenia and in some Western Balkan countries. Representatives of research and educational institutions from Slovenia and the Western Balkan countries, as well as interested members of the public, are invited to attend.
Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič, a renowned expert in copyright law, has joined the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, where she will serve as an affiliate researcher for the next two years.