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Oluwatobi Aluko photo by Praise Samuel
Show Notes:
2:50 Tobi Aluko–Nigerian copyright
5:30 Nigeria’s national AI strategy and creative sector
7:25 Emily Gould – query on tech sector’s strength in Nigeria
9:40 debate over UK’s copyright provision for machine-generated work
11:40 Johan Brandstedt - Sweden’s approach to copyright
13:40 Czech Republic case on AI and copyrightability
16:40 Aluko – prompting versus creating art that involves effort/process
19:00 US copyright for A Single Piece of American Cheese
20:30 Prof. Ahmed Elgammal - background of AI use in the arts
23:45 19th C. French case on copyright of photographs that show originality
24:45 US refusal to copyright AI outputs
26:35 Bartz v. Anthropic and Kadrey v. Meta
30:45 AICAN project
32:55 GAN-based art movement celebrated prior to prompting
34:25 artists survey on value from AI
37:15 backlash of Christies’ auction of Generative AI works
41:50 Elgammal – effort versus intentionality e.g., DuChamp/ready-made art
42:30 intentionality and agency missing with prompting and random output
51:40 AI's cultural impact
1:04:30 Beethoven X project
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Chapters
1. Setting The Stage: AI And IP (00:00:00)
2. Nigeria’s Copyright Law And AI (00:02:37)
3. Tech Versus Creators In Policy (00:09:26)
4. UK’s Computer-Generated Copyright Debate (00:13:07)
5. Authorship, Prompting, And Hybrid Works (00:16:40)
6. Agency, Originality, And Randomness (00:24:00)
7. Conflicting Court Signals In The US (00:30:05)
8. Motivation, Patents, And GAN-Era Context (00:38:20)
9. Prompt Models, Training Data, And Backlash (00:46:10)
10. Cultural Stagnation And Synthetic Flood (00:54:00)
11. Platform Liability And Market Power (01:01:20)
12. Jobs, Incentives, And Fair Competition (01:09:20)
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