Roger Mitchell treated us to an hour’s talk about AI and how IP and copyright is impacted. The engaging talk was necessarily wide-ranging, and generated a lot of discussion. There were a few main points I took away:

• That the laws in the region in which you are operating determine the copyright/IP infringement
• That prior art (like whether something is a derived work or not) is not straightforward to demonstrate
• Often the training is more important to the technology than the end-usage, but the end-usage determines the region for legal purposes (as it is where the act of creation that occurs)
• If creating software, in some regions patenting may be a protection

Nothing in this summary (or indeed in the talk) should be taken as legal advice!