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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/ BLACA event, 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...

The IPKat has had his portrait painted by the AmeriKat - raising another issue of non-human authorship/ownership In the AmeriKat's free time (which does, on occasion, exist), she takes her paw to some painting, being her medium of choice since kittenhood.   The paintbrush is dictated by the AmeriKat's paw which, in turn, is dictated by the spark of artistic expression and emotion lighting up the hemispheres of her brain.  Artistic expression which cannot be downloaded, decoded or analyzed in any complete way.  It is this artistic expression and the old image of the tortured, hungry and, often, poor artist, that historically fueled some of the philosophic underpinnings of some copyright systems  and, in particular, purportedly justified moral rights and duration extensions.  Over the last century, the subject matter of copyright has seen an expansion as the proliferation of information has created "new"  subject matter capable of protection with the jus...