Copyright, Fair Use, and Artificial Intelligence: Rules of the Road

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Join us for this seminar to learn about what you can do to ensure that you receive and maintain the full benefits of your creative efforts.

Co-hosted by UNM Rainforest Innovations, UNM Fine Arts and UNM School of Architecture & Planning.

The creative process breeds intellectual properties largely automatically, at no cost, and without the involvement of lawyers. This presentation will discuss how this happens and what you can do to ensure that you receive and maintain the full benefits of your creative efforts. The focus will be on Copyright but other intellectual properties will be discussed – particularly to place this important right in a greater context. In the U.S. and other countries, creatives are permitted to make a Fair Use of others’ intellectual properties. How far can a creative use this important will be discussed particularly in light of the guidance provided last year by the U.S. Supreme Court in the Andy Warhol case. Finally, another important tool – Artificial Intelligence – will be discussed. We will examine how this tool can be used to bring benefit to you and how this same tool can put you in the unenviable position of infringer. Two important AI tools – ChatGPT and Midjourney – will be discussed plus others. Bring your questions. They will be answered throughout the presentation and afterward.

The first module will focus on the Creative Process and how it breeds intellectual properties. 4 intellectual properties – trade secrets/know how, copyright, trademark, and the right of publicity – are produced during the process. They all are protected automatically at no cost and without a lawyer being involved. (Only patents require the expenditure of money and the involvement of lawyers.)

The second module will be on Fair Use. This is a term widely used on campuses, yet it is typically misunderstood. Chuck will discuss what is copyright and trademark fair use. He will also talk about the Andy Warhol case decided last year by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The third module will be on Artificial Intelligence and the use of this tool on the protection of what results from the Creative Process. Chuck will go over some AI systems beyond ChatGPT and the advantages and disadvantages of them.

This HYBRID event is offered in-person at the Lobo Rainforest Building and virtually via Zoom.

Please only register if you plan to attend IN-PERSON

If you plan to attend via Zoom, you can join virtually using this link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82590022605

About Charles Valauskas:

Charles Valauskas is a partner in the Chicago law firm, Valauskas Corder LLC.

Mr. Valauskas speaks on a regular basis throughout the world on technological and intellectual property topics. He has authored two books on copyright plus chapters of books and articles on other intellectual property and business-related topics that were published by the American Bar Association and the Association of University Technology Managers and in the Boston College International and Comparative Law Review, the Hastings International and Comparative Law Review, and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Newsletter. He has appeared on the BBC World Series and in a variety of popular publications including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the ABA Journal, and Crain’s Chicago Business. Mr. Valauskas is a former adjunct law professor for intellectual property matters in Chicago.

Mr. Valauskas’ involvement in the activities of organizations include serving on the Advisory Board of the Commission on Innovation, Competitiveness, and Economic Prosperity of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, the American Bar Association’s University Intellectual Property Law Committee, and the Alliance of Technology Transfer Professionals “Future Look” Task Force and was the Vice President for Industry Relations of the Association of University Technology Managers.

Mr. Valauskas received a B.S. from the University of Illinois (Chicago), a J.D. from the DePaul University College of Law, and an LL.M. from the Northwestern University School of Law. Mr. Valauskas is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the U.S. District Court for Northern District of Illinois.

New Mexico Rainforest Fall Seminar Series

UNM Rainforest Innovations is hosting their Fall 2024 Seminar series. UNMRI provides entrepreneurial training and technical assistance at the University of New Mexico main and branch campuses. The seminars are free and open to the UNM community and the public via in-person and web access, but registration is required. A certificate program in entrepreneurial capabilities is available to UNM students and community members thru UNM’s Innovation Academy. If interested in the certificate program as part of the seminar series, please contact Cecilia Pacheco at cpacheco@innovations.unm.edu.