Launch of the school of Generative AI and Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana
The Generative AI and Law School, whose honorary patron is the President of the Republic of Slovenia, Dr. Nataša Pirc Musar, will start on Thursday, 16 November 2023 at 17.00 in the Red Lecture Hall of the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana, Poljanski nasip 2, 1000 Ljubljana. Registration for all participants will take place from 16.30 to 17.00 in front of the red lecture hall, so we kindly ask all participants to arrive on time on the day of the event.
Over 120 participants applied for the Generative AI and Law School, where we awarded 90 scholarships with the help of our gold supporters Celtra and Senica Law Firm, and silver supporters NLaw, Outbrain, Silicon Gardens, VBG and Aleph. These funds enable students to attend for free and support professional development in the field of AI and law.
The programme of the first meeting of the School includes a lecture by Prof. Dr. Blaž Zupan from the Faculty of Computer Science and Informatics at UL on “How does technology work?”. Afterwards, there will be a round table discussion on the advantages and disadvantages of AI, moderated by Nina Slaček, journalist of Radio Slovenia’s first programme. The guests of the round table will be Prof. Dr. Blaž Zupan, Faculty of Computer Science and Informatics, UL, Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič, ODIPI, Mag. Dusan Omerčević, founder of Cleanshelf and investor in AI, Filip Dobranić, Institute for Contemporary History and Today is a New Day, Institute for Other Issues, and Uroš Cvetko, Celtra.
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?