Emergent Technologies

Melanie Stockton-Brown: “Inking Cultures: Authorship, AI Generated Art and Copyright Law in Tattooing”

Posted . Filed under Creative Industries, Cultural Heritage, Emergent Technologies, Publications.

Stockton-Brown M., Inking Cultures: Authorship, AI Generated Art and Copyright Law in Tattooing (2023) 36(5) International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 2037- 2065 This article considers current advances in tattooing that are challenging communityheld views of authorship and ownership, and the need to address this tension. The key challenge is from AI-generated artworks being… Read more » about Melanie Stockton-Brown: “Inking Cultures: Authorship, AI Generated Art and Copyright Law in Tattooing”

Copyright in the Metaverse

Posted . Filed under Artificial Intelligence, Creative Industries, Emergent Technologies, Focus areas, Projects.

This project funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciene (JSPS) analyses UK and Japanese copyright laws and how they relate to the Metaverse. The project was awarded to Professor Dinusha Mendis to take up a short term invitational professorship at Waseda University Tokyo from July – October 2023. It was carried out… Read more » about Copyright in the Metaverse

Roger Brownsword and Maurizio Borghi (eds): “Law, Regulation and Governance in the Information Society”

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Roger Brownsword and Maurizio Borghi, (eds), Law, Regulation and Governance in the Information Society(Routledge, 2023) 396 pp This edited collection seeks to map the landscape of contemporary informational interests, to evaluate a range of recognised and putative rights and wrongs associated with modern information societies, and to consider how law, regulation, and governance should be… Read more » about Roger Brownsword and Maurizio Borghi (eds): “Law, Regulation and Governance in the Information Society”