Is AI Transforming IP?
On Saturday 29th March 2025, the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) held its Annual Spring Conference entitled 'Is AI Transforming IP?'
For the last few years, lots of attention has been paid to AI and IP. The Supreme Court has already considered whether AI can be regarded as an inventor. There is also on-going litigation, in various jurisdictions, on whether training AI systems with copyright material infringes copyright, in what circumstances the outputs might infringe; as well as when, if at all, AI-generated content, designs or other outputs might be protected by intellectual property rights and, if so, for whose benefit.
While these are important questions that involve the application of the existing understandings of the law to new factual scenarios, the conference moved beyond them to focus on: (i) what AI reveals about existing law; and (ii) how AI might be changing IP, altering the legal tests with which we have become familiar, as well as the assumptions that underlie them – and what the implications might be.
Speakers included: Dr Jennifer Cobbe, University of Cambridge; Professor Mateo Aboy, University of Cambridge; Dr Alina Trapova, University College London; Professor Ryan Abbott, University of Surrey; Professor Dev Gangjee, University of Oxford; Mr David Stone, White & Case LLP; Professor Mireille van Eechoud, University of Amsterdam; Professor Sean Flynn, Washington College of Law; Professor Tanya Aplin, King’s College London; Mr Dennis Collopy, University of Hertfordshire; and Professor Niva Elkin Koren, Tel Aviv University. Sessions were chaired by Sir Richard Arnold , Lord Justice of Appeal.
The programme can be found below:
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