Private Law Theory

INTRODUCTION
Thanks to rapid progress in generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), the world has entered an era when technology, copyright and philosophy intersect in interesting ways. The advent of GenAI has subjected copyright law around the world to scepticism and opposition on many grounds, and a philosophical approach to the issue could stimulate a meaningful discussion on the aims, objectives and scope of copyright, ultimately leading to potential reforms and adaptations in the digital age. Sitting squarely at the centre of this intersection are large language models (LLMs), with the introduction of Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT), Generative Pre-trained Transformer (ChatGPT), DALL-E 3, MusicGen and others …

Artha Dermawan, AI v copyright: how could public interest theory shift the discourse?, Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice. Published: 29 December 2023.