Benjamin Sobel, ‘Copyright Accelerationism’, 100 Chicago-Kent Law Review (forthcoming 2025), available at SSRN (8 December 2023). Benjamin Sobel has written a provocative new essay about copyright law’s role in the development of generative artificial intelligence, and I think all IP scholars should read it. His essay, ‘Copyright Accelerationism’, is the kind of creative scholarship that our field needs more of. It is being published in the Chicago-Kent Law Review’s ‘AI Disrupting Law’ symposium issue. As all readers will know, copyright law may stand in the way of further development of generative AI, because AI models are trained on millions (or billions?) of unlicensed copyrighted works. Authors and artists have sued the major AI platforms, and if those lawsuits are successful, they could dramatically hinder AI creation … (more)
[Christopher J Buccafusco, JOTWELL, 11 June 2025]
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