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Fair’S Fair: How Public Benefit Considerations In The Fair Use Doctrine Can Patch Bias In Artificial Intelligence Systems, Patrick K. Lin

Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality

The impact of artificial intelligence (AI) expands relentlessly despite well documented examples of bias in AI systems, from facial recognition failing to differentiate between darker-skinned faces to hiring tools discriminating against female candidates. These biases can be introduced to AI systems in a variety of ways; however, a major source of bias is found in training datasets, the collection of images, text, audio, or information used to build and train AI systems. This Article first grapples with the pressure copyright law exerts on AI developers and researchers to use biased training data to build algorithms, focusing on the potential risk …

The Social Value Of Intellectual Property, Alina Ng Boyte

IP Theory

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A Comparative Law Perspective On Intermediaries' Direct Liability In Cloud Computing Context -- A Proposal For China, Shi Xu

Maurer Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation is motivated by two questions: How does the emergence of cloud-computing technology impact major countries’ copyright law regarding the issue of intermediaries’ direct liability? What should Chinese legislature body learn from those countries regarding this issue? Answering the first question lays a foundation for answering the second question.

Usually, a cloud-computing intermediary’s specific activity may possess risk of violating a copyright holder’s right of reproduction, right of communication to the public and right of distribution. Comparatively, that intermediary can raise defenses under the exhaustion doctrine and the fair use doctrine. Analysis on these two topics consists of two …

Innovation Heuristics: Experiments On Sequential Creativity In Intellectual Property, Stefan Bechtold, Christopher Buccafusco, Christopher Jon Sprigman

Indiana Law Journal

All creativity and innovation build on existing ideas. Authors and inventors copy, adapt, improve, interpret, and refine the ideas that have come before them. The central task of intellectual property (IP) law is regulating this sequential innovation to ensure that initial creators and subsequent creators receive the appropriate sets of incentives. Although many scholars have applied the tools of economic analysis to consider whether IP law is successful in encouraging cumulative innovation, that work has rested on a set of untested assumptions about creators’ behavior. This Article reports four novel creativity experiments that begin to test those assumptions. In particular, …

Book Review. Music & Copyright In America: Toward The Celestial Jukebox By Kevin Parks, Michelle M. Botek

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Book Review. European Copyright Law: A Commentary., Marshall A. Leaffer

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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The Digital Millennium Copyright Act And Library Liability, Fred H. Cate

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Protecting Authors' Rights In A Digital Age, Marshall A. Leaffer

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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International Copyright From An American Perspective, Marshall A. Leaffer

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Book Review. Copyright For The Eighties: Cases And Materials, 2d Ed., Marshall A. Leaffer

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Book Review. Copyright Law: Cases And Materials By Craig Joyce, Marshall A. Leaffer

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Copyright And Software Technology Infringement: Defining Third Party Development Rights, Raymond T. Nimmer, Patricia A. Krauthaus

Indiana Law Journal

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The Betamax Case: Another Compulsory License In Copyright Law, Marshall A. Leaffer

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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