Welcome back to Today’s Most Disruptive Technologies! We turn from quantum computing to a spotlight on multimodal AI. Artificial intelligence (AI) continues to dominate the news and the markets and while some of us are still mulling over existential questions of what it means to be human, AI is about to take yet another fast
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Will the Infinite Loom Displace the Celestial Jukebox?
By John Delaney
In his prescient 1994 book, Copyright’s Highway, Professor Paul Goldstein of Stanford Law School popularized the term “the celestial jukebox” for his prediction of a future where consumers could stream on-demand over the Internet any music, film, TV show, or other entertainment work. Professor Goldstein’s foresight anticipated the rise of massive cloud streaming platforms…
Nice for What? AI Drake and Publicity Rights Limitations in Policing AI-Generated Content
By John Delaney & Sean West
A surprising, unannounced collaboration between Drake and The Weeknd—a song called “Heart on My Sleeve”—went viral on social media a few weeks ago. It generated millions of streams across music and social media platforms, but it wasn’t Drake and The Weeknd singing on the track; rather, it was an AI-generated simulation…
Notes From the Field: Game Developers Conference—Part 1
By Michelle Han & Perkins Coie
Accessibility, artificial intelligence (AI), and hybrid-casual games were among the noteworthy topics at the March 2023 Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco. Here is Part 1 of our Notes From the Field with a few highlights from the sessions we attended.
Accessibility for Gamers
Accessibility was an issue that featured heavily at GDC this…
AI Can Create a Painting but It Can’t Register a Copyright in the Painting
By John Delaney & Sean West
The U.S. Copyright Office has again refused to recognize an artificial intelligence as the author of a work for copyright purposes.
This renewed rejection follows Steven Thaler’s request for the Copyright Office to reconsider its earlier refusals to recognize an AI algorithm, dubbed the “Creativity Machine,” as the author of a visual work entitled A…
Mission Statement
By Meeka Bondy & John Delaney
We live in a disruptive age, with advances in technology largely fueling the disruption.
The internet, smartphones, mobile computing, social media, cloud computing, big data, blockchain, the Internet of Things, and so many more to come—these technologies have transformed, and continue to transform, our work, our lives, and our society (often for the better, but…