Intellectual Property

The UK’s copyright system has long prioritized economic interests over creators’ control, allowing industries to learn from creative works without permission. Critics now opposing AI training have benefited from these same principles. A fair debate should acknowledge this precedent rather than selectively restricting AI.

A recent study found that the number of H-1B visa holders is highly correlated with the number of issued patents in a state.

Jason M. Allen, an artist whose AI-generated image won a digital art competition prize in 2022, recently sued the U.S. Copyright Office for rejecting his application for copyright of the image. In its refusal to grant copyright protection to Allen’s work—which he created using 624 prompts on the generative AI platform Midjourney—the Copyright Office argued that the artist’s creative process to generate the award-winning image did not meet the criteria for “human authorship as we understand it.”

Congress should pass an amended version of the NO FAKES Act that preempts all existing and future state digital likeness laws. This would ensure consistent IP protections for all Americans—including performers—support innovation in entertainment, and prevent a patchwork of state digital replica laws.

The administration should ban Chinese research funding at U.S. universities to prevent IP theft.

Congress and other stakeholders would do well to ignore SOPA as a relic of the past and instead focus on those stakeholders who want to engage on the substantial and growing body of evidence from around the world.

A landmark ruling in 2015 made it harder for artists and record labels to determine where permissible influence and interpolation become impermissible appropriation and plagiarism. Congress should make things more consistent, accurate, and fair by directing the Copyright Office to launch a competition for the private sector to come up with an AI-enabled tool to compare how similar a musical composition or recording is to existing copyright-protected works.

Congress should make assessments of musical copyright infringement more consistent, accurate, and fair by directing and funding the Copyright Office to launch a competition for the private sector to come up with an AI-enabled tool to for the job.

A recent paper found that the average innovative target firm received a takeover premium and cumulative abnormal stock returns that were 4.2 and 5.6 percentage points, respectively, higher than their non-innovative counterparts.

The Center for Data Innovation submitted comments to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK’s independent body set up to uphold information rights, on its generative AI consultation.