...and my a2aj.ca project released a working paper by @simonwallace.bsky.social and me about bulk access to Canadian legal data, the role of @canlii.bsky.social, & our new open-source alternative (a2aj.ca/canadian-legal-data) Paper is here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

A busy week... My @refugeelab.ca released our report about tech and alternatives to immigration detention, co-authored by @danghez.bsky.social & @petramolnar.com, and co-published with @kaldorcentre.bsky.social and @idcoalition.bsky.social: www.unsw.edu.au/content/dam/...

Registration is open! Join us for an international conference on ‘The Legacy of CCH Canadian Ltd. v. LSUC and the Future of Copyright Law’, taking place on Sept 19-20th in downtown Toronto and live-streaming online! 📚©️ Find more information and a link to register here: www.yorku.ca/osgoode/ipos...

This is a fun episode on AI art and copyright law npr.org - nicely done by @ecjacobs.bsky.social! I was pleased to be included alongside @davidfewer.bsky.social.

CALL FOR PAPERS! 🪩🎉🎊🪩🎉🎊🪩🎉🎊 It's out and full of information. Check it out! Get in touch with questions! lawandpoliticaleconomy.org

Great post by @technollama: “Copyright is messy.… Stop trying to make copyright do something that it’s not meant to do. Some of the issues that are being discussed are about societal challenges. They are also about competition, funding to the arts, capitalism, corporate greed, and inequality.” +1 👏

South African apex court recognises the “constitutional imperatives of equality and dignity for persons with disabilities” in a landmark copyright judgment 🎉 | infojustice Check out Dr. Sanya Samtani’s excellent blogpost explaining yesterday’s remarkable ruling 👇 infojustice.org/archives/46309

Robot Law: Volume II, edited by @rcalo.bsky.social, @mfroomkin.bsky.social and @kristenthomasen.bsky.social Contributors incl: @hartzog.bsky.social @caryscraig.bsky.social @timhwang.bsky.social @cyn-k.bsky.social @karenlevy.bsky.social @abeba.bsky.social Free chapter ➡️ doi.org/10.4337/9781...

#WeRobot2025 NEXT PANEL: AI Fairness & Discrimination ft "The Fairness-Accuracy Tradeoff Myth in AI" by @ignaciocofone.bsky.social & "Artificial Intelligence and the Discrimination Injury" by @aselbst.bsky.social with @caryscraig.bsky.social as discussant! static1.squarespace.com/static/66e43... +

As #AI tools become more prevalent, #policymakers are urged to protect creators & cultural industries from the threats posed by #generativeAI. However, in their rush to act, they may fall into the "Copyright Trap." Read: http://spkl.io/63321fQcDU Subscribe: http://spkl.io/63322fQcDq

It's about turning a million little monopolies into one big one, and using it to pummel independent artists, technologists, and the public. Maybe some day someone will be interested in that version of this story, instead of the same old "You wouldn't steal a car??!" cliches.

And their endgame is never an artists' utopia, it's a world where (as @caryscraig.bsky.social explains) a few big corporations control the creative economy, where no one can make or use creative tools without permission from the biggest copyright incumbent industries.

This is 1000% the correct take on copyright and AI, from @caryscraig.bsky.social. If we can't break through the braindead "You stole mah website!" level of discourse, we're going to be in a world where Marvel and UMG dictate terms for this technology. www.yorku.ca/yfile/2025/0...

Even as the number of legal cases grows, a definite answer to the question of whether artificial intelligence companies can use copyrighted content to train their AI products is still a long way off www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/art...

Rejoignez-nous CE JEUDI le 27 février pour en apprendre plus sur l’utilisation équitable et l’intelligence artificielle dans le milieu universitaire avec Carys Craig, juriste et experte en droit d'auteur et en intelligence artificielle. Inscrivez-vous : us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

It’s Fair Dealing Week! Join us THIS THURSDAY Feb. 27 to learn more about fair dealing and AI in the academy from legal scholar and copyright and artificial intelligence expert Carys Craig. Register now: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Delighted to finally get my hands on this beauty 💖 and very grateful to have been included! So many *must-reads* in here on IP & Gender: www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/b... My chapter takes aim at the ‘empirical turn’—all the efforts we’re seeing to measure women’s participation in the IP system…

As AI disrupts our existing copyright regimes, it's critical that we protect fair dealing - the concept that makes copyright compatible with education and freedom of speech. Join @caut.bsky.social and law professor Carys Craig next week to talk about it! us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The Government of Canada has just released its ‘What We Heard’ Report summarizing submissions to its ‘Consultation on Copyright in the Age of Generative AI’ 🇨🇦 🤖 Tl;dr [*spoiler alert*]: They heard lots of ‘stakeholders’ fundamentally disagreeing with one another 🤷‍♀️ ised-isde.canada.ca/site/strateg...

This paper by @caryscraig.bsky.social is teeming with quotable phrases and notable ideas regarding the falsity of "copyright vs. AI" arguments: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

🚨 [AI RESEARCH] "The AI-Copyright Trap," by @caryscraig.bsky.social, is a MUST-READ for everyone interested in AI governance (& following the various AI copyright lawsuits I have been covering). Quotes:

when you examine a text written by a human you can find layers and layers of meaning and intentionality, the complexity of the human conscious, an opportunity for one mind to commune with another outside the bounds of time and space. when you examine AI text you drown in a teaspoon of nothing.

Copyright Unwrapped: It’s the most wonderful time of the year for public domain fans. Check out my deep dive into the new (old) works entering the U.S. public domain on January 1, 2025—up now on Copyright Lately! copyrightlately.com/public-domai... #copyright #publicdomain2025 #publicdomain

I had a such a lovely time teaching “Copyright Theory & Technological Change” to the terrific students in the Global Law program at KU Leuven. 12 hours of classes, 1 graduate research seminar, 5 days of engaging discussions, and way too many croquettes to count🇧🇪 🍻 Thx to Thomas Margoni for hosting!

This is one of the most succinct summaries of why copyright cannot solve all of our ethical concerns around AI labor displacement that I have read to date; highly recommend reading: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... @caryscraig.bsky.social