Professor Friedmann shared his AI and Copyright presentation at Beijing IP Court and PKU co-organized international seminar

On October 18, the International Seminar on Judicial Protection of Intellectual Property Rights, co-sponsored by the Beijing Intellectual Property Court and the International Intellectual Property Research Center of Peking University, with the theme “Innovation, Collaboration and Win-win : Judicial Protection of Intellectual Property Rights under High-level Opening-up,”was held at the Beijing Conference Center to jointly discuss the cutting-edge hot issues of judicial protection of intellectual property rights and contribute wisdom and strength to promoting global intellectual property governance and improving the level of judicial protection of intellectual property rights. More than 30 judges, experts and scholars from China, South Korea, the United Kingdom and the United States were invited to attend the seminar.

Professor Danny Friedmann’s presentation discussed the “platonic” high standard applied by both the U.S. Copyright Office when assessing the protectability of AI-generated products, while looser, humanistic standards are applied to traditional works. It also advocates for a moratorium on copyright protection for AI-generated content until copyright offices start accessing AI-service providers’ databases so that they can distinguish between creation and generation. The article on which the presentation was based is Creation and Generation Copyright Standards.