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Sean Rehaag @seanrehaag.bsky.social · 22d

...and my a2aj.ca project released a working paper by @simonwallace.bsky.social and me about bulk access to Canadian legal data, the role of @canlii.bsky.social, & our new open-source alternative (a2aj.ca/canadian-legal-data)

Paper is here:

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Cover page for Access To Algorithmic Justice Working Paper. Accessible text via link.

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Sean Rehaag @seanrehaag.bsky.social · 22d

A busy week...

My @refugeelab.ca released our report about tech and alternatives to immigration detention, co-authored by @danghez.bsky.social & @petramolnar.com, and co-published with @kaldorcentre.bsky.social and @idcoalition.bsky.social:

www.unsw.edu.au/content/dam/...

Cover image for a report entitled "From Surveillance to Empowerment: Advancing the Responsible Use of Technology in Alternatives to Detention" Accessible text via link

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Carys Craig @caryscraig.bsky.social · Sep 8

Registration is open! Join us for an international conference on ‘The Legacy of CCH Canadian Ltd. v. LSUC and the Future of Copyright Law’, taking place on Sept 19-20th in downtown Toronto and live-streaming online! 📚©️

Find more information and a link to register here: www.yorku.ca/osgoode/ipos...

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Carys Craig @caryscraig.bsky.social · Aug 30

This is a fun episode on AI art and copyright law npr.org - nicely done by @ecjacobs.bsky.social! I was pleased to be included alongside @davidfewer.bsky.social.

Emma Jacobs @ecjacobs.bsky.social · Aug 25

Truly a delight to work with @wailinwong.bsky.social and @juliaritchey.bsky.social on this episode of @npr.org The Indicator. www.npr.org/2025/08/25/n...

Can you copyright artwork made using AI? : The Indicator from Planet Money

Copyright is the legal system used to reward and protect creations made by humans. But with growing adoption of artificial intelligence, does copyright extend to artwork that’s made using AI? Today on...

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Association of Law and Political Economy @a-lpe.bsky.social · Jul 16

CALL FOR PAPERS! 🪩🎉🎊🪩🎉🎊🪩🎉🎊 It's out and full of information. Check it out! Get in touch with questions!
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Association of Law & Political Economy

Call for Papers: Inaugural Association of Law and Political Economy (ALPE) Conference

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Carys Craig @caryscraig.bsky.social · Jul 9

Great post by @technollama: “Copyright is messy.…
Stop trying to make copyright do something that it’s not meant to do. Some of the issues that are being discussed are about societal challenges. They are also about competition, funding to the arts, capitalism, corporate greed, and inequality.” +1 👏

Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · Jul 9

How AI is breaking traditional remuneration models

It's been a busy few weeks in the AI and copyright beat, and while I've been following all of the developments closely, I haven't had the time to react to everything in the blog. However, with two first decisions handed down in the US, and one in…

How AI is breaking traditional remuneration models

It's been a busy few weeks in the AI and copyright beat, and while I've been following all of the developments closely, I haven't had the time to react to everything in the blog. However, with two first decisions handed down in the US, and one in the UK expected soon, it is a perfect time to start looking at the subject from a long-term perspective.

www.technollama.co.uk

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Carys Craig @caryscraig.bsky.social · May 8

South African apex court recognises the “constitutional imperatives of equality and dignity for persons with disabilities” in a landmark copyright judgment 🎉 | infojustice

Check out Dr. Sanya Samtani’s excellent blogpost explaining yesterday’s remarkable ruling 👇

infojustice.org/archives/46309

South African apex court recognises the “constitutional imperatives of equality and dignity for persons with disabilities” in landmark copyright judgment | infojustice

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Edward Elgar Publishing @elgarpublishing.bsky.social · May 6

Robot Law: Volume II, edited by @rcalo.bsky.social, @mfroomkin.bsky.social and @kristenthomasen.bsky.social

Contributors incl: @hartzog.bsky.social @caryscraig.bsky.social @timhwang.bsky.social @cyn-k.bsky.social @karenlevy.bsky.social @abeba.bsky.social

Free chapter ➡️ doi.org/10.4337/9781...

An important sequel to the groundbreaking first edition, Robot Law: Volume II discusses the societal and economic transformations introduced by robotics. Editors Ryan Calo, A. Michael Froomkin and Kristen Thomasen, alongside their contributing authors, explore the legal, ethical, and societal challenges that robotics and automated systems pose, investigating the intersection of law and policy in this area.

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Cynthia Khoo @cyn-k.bsky.social · Apr 5

#WeRobot2025 NEXT PANEL: AI Fairness & Discrimination ft "The Fairness-Accuracy Tradeoff Myth in AI" by @ignaciocofone.bsky.social & "Artificial Intelligence and the Discrimination Injury" by @aselbst.bsky.social with @caryscraig.bsky.social as discussant! static1.squarespace.com/static/66e43... +

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SSRN @ssrn.bsky.social · Mar 30

As #AI tools become more prevalent, #policymakers are urged to protect creators & cultural industries from the threats posed by #generativeAI. However, in their rush to act, they may fall into the "Copyright Trap."

Read: http://spkl.io/63321fQcDU
Subscribe: http://spkl.io/63322fQcDq

This image shows an illistrative robot head.

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Brandon Butler @bb.usefairuse.com · Mar 21

It's about turning a million little monopolies into one big one, and using it to pummel independent artists, technologists, and the public. Maybe some day someone will be interested in that version of this story, instead of the same old "You wouldn't steal a car??!" cliches.

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Brandon Butler @bb.usefairuse.com · Mar 21

And their endgame is never an artists' utopia, it's a world where (as @caryscraig.bsky.social explains) a few big corporations control the creative economy, where no one can make or use creative tools without permission from the biggest copyright incumbent industries.

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Brandon Butler @bb.usefairuse.com · Mar 21

This is 1000% the correct take on copyright and AI, from @caryscraig.bsky.social. If we can't break through the braindead "You stole mah website!" level of discourse, we're going to be in a world where Marvel and UMG dictate terms for this technology. www.yorku.ca/yfile/2025/0...

“Copyright is likely to function not as a safeguard for our culture, but as a tool to advance corporate power,” she says, cutting to the heart of a debate that’s reshaping how society values creativity in an age increasingly defined by algorithms.

“Copyright casts the author’s work as an alienable commodity,” she explains, noting that the current framework disproportionately benefits intermediaries – the platforms, publishers and corporations that control distribution.

Strengthening copyright, she argues, won’t fix this inherent imbalance. Instead, she calls for a more radical approach: robust public funding for the arts, stronger labour protections for creators and tax policies that support cultural production, not just corporate profit.

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Carys Craig @caryscraig.bsky.social · Mar 20

www.yorku.ca/yfile/2025/0...

AI and copyright law: Osgoode expert describes what’s at stake - YFile

Osgoode Hall Law School Professor Carys Craig explains how artificial intelligence is challenging the foundations of copyright law, raising questions about the future of creativity and who truly owns ...

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Anja Karadeglija @anjakaradeglija.bsky.social · Mar 3

Even as the number of legal cases grows, a definite answer to the question of whether artificial intelligence companies can use copyrighted content to train their AI products is still a long way off

www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/art...

Canada, other countries struggling to come up with new rules for AI and copyright

The battle between AI companies and copyright holders notched an early win for publishers in the U.S. in mid-February when a court ruled that a legal research firm didn’t have the right to use a rival...

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CAUT/ACPPU @caut.bsky.social · Feb 24

Rejoignez-nous CE JEUDI le 27 février pour en apprendre plus sur l’utilisation équitable et l’intelligence artificielle dans le milieu universitaire avec Carys Craig, juriste et experte en droit d'auteur et en intelligence artificielle.

Inscrivez-vous : us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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CAUT/ACPPU @caut.bsky.social · Feb 24

It’s Fair Dealing Week! Join us THIS THURSDAY Feb. 27 to learn more about fair dealing and AI in the academy from legal scholar and copyright and artificial intelligence expert Carys Craig.

Register now: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Carys Craig @caryscraig.bsky.social · Feb 23

…as if greater participation in the existing IP system is necessarily progress towards equality. From a critical feminist stance, I caution that this is the kind of second-wave neoliberal thinking that sustains the status quo, reinforcing an IP system that produces inequality and exclusion by design

An image of the first page of Chapter 7, “Copyright and Gender: Feminist Philosophies and the Politics of Proof”

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Carys Craig @caryscraig.bsky.social · Feb 23

Delighted to finally get my hands on this beauty 💖 and very grateful to have been included! So many *must-reads* in here on IP & Gender: www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/b... My chapter takes aim at the ‘empirical turn’—all the efforts we’re seeing to measure women’s participation in the IP system…

Front cover of book ‘A Research Agenda for Intellectual Property and Gender’, Lai & Bowery (eds)

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OpenMedia @openmedia.org · Feb 21

As AI disrupts our existing copyright regimes, it's critical that we protect fair dealing - the concept that makes copyright compatible with education and freedom of speech.

Join @caut.bsky.social and law professor Carys Craig next week to talk about it!

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Fair Dealing Week Keynote 2025 / Allocution d’ouverture de la Semaine de l’utilisation équitable 2025. After registering, you will receive a confirmation em...

Carys Craig is a legal scholar and copyright and artificial intelligence expert at Osgoode Hall Law School. The title of her keynote is “Fair Dealing and AI in the Academy: Reflections on the Right to...

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Carys Craig @caryscraig.bsky.social · Feb 11

The Government of Canada has just released its ‘What We Heard’ Report summarizing submissions to its ‘Consultation on Copyright in the Age of Generative AI’ 🇨🇦 🤖
Tl;dr [*spoiler alert*]: They heard lots of ‘stakeholders’ fundamentally disagreeing with one another 🤷‍♀️ ised-isde.canada.ca/site/strateg...

Consultation on Copyright in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence: What we heard report

Table of Contents Introduction Who We Heard From What We Heard Text and data mining (TDM) Authorship and ownership of works generated by AI Infringement and liability regarding AI Engag...

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Reed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · Feb 7

This paper by @caryscraig.bsky.social is teeming with quotable phrases and notable ideas regarding the falsity of "copyright vs. AI" arguments: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The AI-Copyright Trap

As AI tools proliferate, policy makers are increasingly being called upon to protect creators and the cultural industries from the extractive, exploitative, and

papers.ssrn.com

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Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social · Jan 4

🚨 [AI RESEARCH] "The AI-Copyright Trap," by @caryscraig.bsky.social, is a MUST-READ for everyone interested in AI governance (& following the various AI copyright lawsuits I have been covering). Quotes:

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · Jan 3

when you examine a text written by a human you can find layers and layers of meaning and intentionality, the complexity of the human conscious, an opportunity for one mind to commune with another outside the bounds of time and space. when you examine AI text you drown in a teaspoon of nothing.

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Aaron Moss @copyrightlately.bsky.social · Dec 5

Copyright Unwrapped: It’s the most wonderful time of the year for public domain fans. Check out my deep dive into the new (old) works entering the U.S. public domain on January 1, 2025—up now on Copyright Lately!

copyrightlately.com/public-domai...

#copyright #publicdomain2025 #publicdomain

Public Domain Day 2025 is Coming: Here's What to Know

A new crop of copyrighted works enters the public domain in the United States on January 1, 2025. Here's what it all means.

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