Submissions now open for ICML 2024!!

genlaw.org/2024-icml/cfp.…

and an extra thank you to our speakers, student volunteers, and to my co-organizers!

Katherine Lee James Grimmelmann Hoda Heidari AlexandraReeveGivens Miranda Bogen Paul Ohm
Hoon Kim Nari Johnson @michaelfeffer Ningjing Tang

Thank you all so much for joining us Monday!!!

We had a great time seeing some familiar faces and meeting new ones!

We'll make the recording available ASAP!

For now, a little rest, then will start writing up the reports :)

HAPPENING NOW: Center for Democracy & Technology is a cohost of The GenLaw Center’s “Evaluating #GenerativeAI Systems: the Good, the Bad, & the Hype” conference. Join CDT CEO AlexandraReeveGivens + others on the livestream here: dc-workshop.genlaw.org

And James Grimmelmann is liveblogging the event here!

3d.laboratorium.net/2024-04-15-gen…

And we're live!!

georgetown.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

📣📣: the The GenLaw Center has put together another amazing and timely event to bridge perspectives across CS, law, and policy. I've learned *so* much from their past programming. don't miss it!! (+ there's a free livestream!!!)

Join us virtually on April 15th for a discussion on evaluating generative AI systems!

We'll discuss:
1) training-data attribution
2) privacy
3) data provenance & watermarks
4) system refusal

See you all in Vienna, Austria for GenLaw 2 at ICML 2024!

We're so excited to be in Europe and use this opportunity to dig into GDPR, and text & data mining exceptions!!

We'll put up a website soon with a CFP. It'll be pretty similar to last years (genlaw.org/cfp.html) but…

Join us WEDNESDAY Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society for a discussion on the promises and perils of foundation models in content moderation, featuring Dave Willner Cyber Policy Center.

RSVP for this hybrid event: rebootingsocialmedia.org/events/moderat…

New blog post: The EU AI Act and copyright. technollama.co.uk/the-eu-ai-act-…

Copyright Day 2: What can courts do (if they find infringement)?

Courts can fine infringers a lot of $$$$, determine if it’s okay to train (certain) models in the future, and decide whether (certain) existing models will be destroyed.

Fines: Copyright infringement penalties…

A defence has been filed in the Getty Images v Stability AI case in the High Court of England and Wales. The defence is complex and merits a blog post, but here are a few highlights. drive.google.com/file/d/1HIS9jM…

Copyright Day 1. Does it matter if a potential copyright infringer _intended_ to infringe?

Many of the lawsuits against companies that train generative-AI models are for *copyright infringement.* The plaintiffs own copyrights to creative content; they believe their content was…

🎉We just turned in our edits of “Talkin’ ‘Bout AI Generation: Copyright and the Generative-AI Supply Chain” for publication at the Journal of the Copyright Society!🎉

Revised version on SSRN (on arXiv tonight): papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Blog post: genlaw.org/explainers/tal…

We’re…

Hi world! We're so excited for this!