Main theme

Literary and artistic property through the prism of artificial intelligence

Name: ALAI 2023 Paris
Start: 2023-06-22T09:00
End: 2023-06-23T18:00
Location: Novotel Paris Centre Tour Eiffel

02DAYS

Day 1

June 22, 2023

Understanding :

Artificial intelligence and literary and artistic property: the contours of the relationship

9:00

Welcome

9:30-10:30

Opening speech

Ms Rima Abdul-Malak, Minister of Culture

Sylvie Forbin, WIPO Vice Director General

Frank Gotzen, President of ALAI

Pierre Sirinelli, President of AFPIDA

10:30-10:50

Keynote: What does AI mean for a lawyer?

Speaker Yannick Meneceur, Magistrate, Council of Europe

10:50-11:10 Break

AI uses in the cultural sector: round table with demonstrations by artists (music, graphic arts, writing/translation, cinema)

Moderated by : Fabienne Brison, Professeure de droit et avocate

Music Benoit Carré (Skyyge)
Graphic arts Jean-David Benichou, Sté Artinity
Comics Frédéric Maupomé, Ecrivain et Secrétaire général de la Ligue des auteurs professionnels
Writing/translation Olivier Mannoni, traducteur et journaliste, Conseil Permanent des Ecrivains (CPE)
Cinema Gilles Gaillard, Animaj

12:20-12:45

Keynote: The legal challenges of AI in the cultural sector.

Speaker Alexandra Bensamoun, Professor of Law at Paris-Saclay University

12:45-14:15 Lunch break

1. Understanding the upstream

Artificial intelligence and literary and artistic property: the contours of the relationship

Chairman Silke Von Lewinski, Professor at the Max Planck Institute

14:15-14:30

The protection of AI tools by intellectual property

Speaker Nahum Gabrieli, Partner, Seligsohn Gabrieli & Co.

14:30-15:50

The use by generative AI of protected content

General introductory presentation: the need to clear pre-existing rights?

Speaker Jane Ginsburg, Professor of Law, Columbia Law School, New York

Round table on freedom of use (exceptions, licenses, etc.)

Tatsuhiro Ueno Professor of Law, Waseda University
Raquel Xalabarder Professor of Law, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Toby Headdon, Solicitor, Bristows LLP
Carlo Scollo Lavizzari
Lenz Caemmerer Attorneys, Basel

15:50-16:10

Debate

16:10-16:40 Coffee break

2. Use of AI as a rights management and administration tool

Artificial intelligence and literary and artistic property: the contours of the relationship

Chaiman Jan Rosen, Professor of Law, Stockholm University

16h40-17h10

AI and content recognition/moderation/prevention of counterfeiting

Speaker Caleb Donaldson, Senior Counsel, Google

Speaker David El Sayegh, Deputy Managing Director, Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique (SACEM)

17:10-17:25

AI and recommendations

Speaker Jozefien Vanherpe, Assistant Professor KU Leuven

17:45 Closing of the first day

Day 2

June 23, 2023

Access to protection

Artificial intelligence and literary and artistic property: The contours of protection

The status of AI productions.

09:00-10:30

Chairman Pierre Sirinelli, Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne

Qualification as a work ?

International report Sari Depreeuw, Professor of Law UCLouvain, Université Saint-Louis Brussels

Speaker Shira Perlmutter, Register of Copyrights and Director of the U.S. Copyright Office

Speaker Benoit Michaux, Professor of Law, University of Namur

Speaker Stefania Ercolani, International Relations Advisor, Italian CMO SIAE

Speaker Patricia Akester, researcher and columnist

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-11:30

Chairman Jørgen Blomqvist, Honorary Professor · University of Copenhagen

Characterization of the output as a Performance?

Artificial "work" vs. real artist-performer
Paloma Lopez, AIE
"Real" work vs. "artificial" performer (deep fakes)
Annie Morin, General Manager of Artisti

11:30-12:00

Characterization of the output as part of the “commons” (i.e., absence of private rights in the output)

Criteria and regime of protection
Georges Azzaria, Professor of Law, Université Laval, Québec
Consequences of the absence of protection: the risk of circumvention, what about the case of an author in the repertoire (for certain creations only?)…
Christian Zimmermann, Chief Executive of the Design and Artists Copyright Society (DACS)

12:00-12:30

Debate

12:30-14:00 Lunch break

Legal regime

Artificial intelligence and literary and artistic property: The contours of protection

The status of AI productions.

Chairman Mihaly Ficsor, Member of the Hungarian Copyright Council, former WIPO Assistant Director General

14:00-15:20

The choice of legal regime (nature, ownership, rights, limitations)

Copyright protection: classic or modified, specific
Sophie Goossens, Partner, Reed Smith; Bernt Hugenholtz, Professor Emeritus, University of Amsterdam
Protection by a neighboring right or a sui generis right
Matthias Leistner, Professor of Law, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich; Kyungsuk Kim Professor of Copyright, Sangmyung University, Seoul

15:20-16:00

AI and violation of rights: the choice of remedy

Infringement and other kinds of recourse (parasitism and unfair competition)
Franz Ruz, Lawyer and International EU-LatAm Consultant; Jukka Liedes President of the Finnish Copyright Society
Personality rights
Lauri Rechardt, Chief Legal Officer - IFPI

16:00-16:20 Coffee break

16:20-16:50

Transparency and remuneration issues

Chaiman Delia Lipszyc, Professor University of Buenos Aires

Julien Beaupain, Legal Director, Centre Français d'Exploitation du Droit de Copie

Nina George, Honorary President of the European Writers Council

Evangelia Vagena, Adjunct Lecturer at AUEB University and lawyer

16:50-17:10

Debate

17:10-17:40

Synthesis and perspectives

André Lucas, Professor Emeritus, University of Nantes

17:40

ALAI General Assembly

18:00 Closing of the Congress

About

Novotel Paris Centre Tour Eiffel

The Novotel Paris Centre Tour Eiffel is located on the banks of the Seine, at 61 quai de Grenelle in Paris, close to the Eiffel Tower, in the modern and lively district of Paris Beaugrenelle (Paris 15th district). It will host the ALAI congress in its conference room for over 450 people. The hotel has 764 spacious rooms, with a seventies design (former Hotel Niko), spread over 31 floors (two restaurants, fitness room, swimming pool with a view over the whole of Paris).

By registering via Alai, you benefit from advantageous prices for the duration of your stay.

The Novotel is 25 minutes from Orly airport and 45 minutes from Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport and is also close to several metro lines: line 6 (Bir Hakeim or Dupleix stations); line 10 (Charles Michels station); RER C (Javel or Maison de la Radio-Kennedy station).

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