Rise of the machines: AI and Copyright

Intelligent machines are here, but they do not come as conquerors, they come as creators. From designing websites and writing essays to producing code and generating artwork, there is little Open AI’s Chat GPT, a state-of-the-art artificial intelligence chatbot, cannot do. And while human efforts to train computers to produce…

IPR and Digital Piracy: A Lost Cause

Recently, the New Zealand Court of Appeals approved an American re­quest to extradite one of the world’s most celebrated digital pirates, Kim Dotcom, back to the United States. American prosecutors had alleged that the creator of megaupload.com had cost copyright holders upwards of $500m (Rs 3,454 crore) in unpaid royalties on pirated…