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Artificial intelligence, intellectual property and the creative industries

Hosted by the LSE Law School

In-person and online public event (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building)

Speakers

Professor Tanya Aplin

Professor Martin Kretschmer

Dr Luke McDonagh

Dr Luke McDonagh

Professor Madhavi Sunder

Chair

Dr Siva Thambisetty

Dr Siva Thambisetty

This event will explore the challenge of artificial intelligence technologies in the creative industries (film, theatre, music, video games).

The panel will debate Intellectual Property Law issues related to the training and use of generative AI models that produce works of text, art and music, such as ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion, and will discuss the use of AI in the context of image rights of performers. The panel will explore the legal rights of authors, performers, and users, considering whether AI use can constitute copyright or trade mark infringement, and whether regional or global IP licensing solutions are feasible.

Meet our speakers and chair

Tanya Aplin is Professor of Intellectual Property Law at King's College London (KCL). Professor Aplin has published extensively on how digital technologies are regulated by copyright law at the international, European, and UK levels. A leading expert, Professor Aplin is co-author of two intellectual property law textbooks: Intellectual Property Law: Text, Cases and Materials and Intellectual Property: Patents, Copyright, Trade Marks and Allied Rights.

Martin Kretschmer is an expert in Intellectual Property Law and cultural economics. Since 2012 he has been the Director of the University of Glasgow AHRC Centre for the Regulation of the Creative Economy (CREATe) which has led the way in developing new methodologies to study regulation of IP-driven industries such as Film, Music and Video Games. He is an alumnus of LSE.

Luke McDonagh is Associate Professor in the LSE Law School with expertise in Intellectual Property and the performing arts. His most recent monograph is Performing Copyright: Law, Theatre and Authorship (Hart, 2021). In 2023-24 he was awarded the prestigious Lalive and Merryman Fellowship Award by the University of Geneva for the best article published in the International Journal of Cultural Property in 2022.

Madhavi Sunder (@MadhaviSunder) is Frank Sherry Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Georgetown University. Professor Sunder is a widely published and influential scholar of intellectual property law, law and technology, women’s human rights, and international development. Her scholarship is among the most cited in US IP Law. Her work is globally oriented and interdisciplinary, straddling private and public law.

Siva Thambisetty (@SivaThambisetty) is Associate Professor at the LSE Law School, where she teaches and researches on the legal protection of inventions and innovation. An internationally recognised expert, Dr Thambisetty attended intergovernmental negotiations on the UN Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) Treaty, first as an advisor to the Pacific Small Island Developing States (IGC2, IGC3) and second, as an expert on the G77 Chair’s Team in 2022 (IGC5) and 2023.

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