Conference: Law in the Information Society
The Institute of Comparative Law, Faculty of Law of the University of Ljubljana and the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana organized a conference titled Law in the Information Society, which took place on March 28, 2024, at the Faculty of Law.
Thirteen speakers presented the benefits as well as the obstacles of digitization and the use of artificial intelligence in various legal fields. The legal starting points of the infrastructure for open science, federated social networks and their (non-)regulation, as well as legal and ethical issues in the digital environment were also discussed.
Representatives of ODIPI also attended the conference. For more details about the conference content, read the upcoming article in Legal Practice.
ODIPI is organizing ERA KR21 Conference: Barriers and Incentives for Open Science in the Copyright Law that will take place on 2 December, 2024 at Hotel Four Points by Sheraton (Mons) in Ljubljana and also online.
The District Court of Hamburg ruled in the case of Kneschke v. LAION e.V. that LAION did not infringe the copyright of photographer Kneschke, as the use of his photograph was covered by the exception for text and data mining (TDM) for scientific purposes.
“Can copyright bring artificial intelligence to its knees? Which other circumstances may cause that the “making” of generative AI can dramatically change in the (near) future. This short paper presents potential challenges that copyright poses to the training of the machines on large amount of data. Different jurisdictions address these issues differently. In the USA the legality of these activities is tested in several court cases. Do gentlemen’s agreements and pragmatic symbiosis known from the “search engines business model” provide sufficient basis and/or incentive for the business model of “making” generative AI business model as well?