The Charles Clark Memorial Lecture and Drinks Reception at London Book Fair: Perspectives on AI and IP

Prof. Eleonora Rosati, Professor of (IP) Law, Stockholm University, and Dr. Hayleigh Bosher, Reader in IP Law and Associate Dean, Brunel University London

Chaired by Catriona Stevenson, General Counsel and Deputy CEO, Publishers Association

Copyright and its relationship with artificial intelligence remains a much-discussed topic, not only within the publishing industry but also in government, the courts, and the media. From rightsholders’ attempts to fight mass copyright infringement, to pressures on lawmakers to weaken copyright to allow the free use of published content in the training of AI models, jurisdictions across the world are grappling with similar arguments.

At this year’s lecture, Professor Rosati and Dr Bosher will be bringing their expert knowledge and perspective to provide a comprehensive overview of recent developments in copyright, how AI developers are copying and using content, and what the potential outcomes may be for rightsholders.

Chair: Catriona Stevenson, General Counsel and Deputy CEO at the Publishers Association

Speaker: Dr Hayleigh Bosher, Associate Dean / Reader in Intellectual Property Law, Brunel University London

Dr Hayleigh Bosher is a Reader in Intellectual Property Law and Associate Dean (Professional Development and Graduate Outcomes) at Brunel University London where she also runs the Brunel Law School IP Pro Bono Service and is a member of the Brunel Centre for Artificial Intelligence: Social and Digital Innovation. Hayleigh’s research focuses on copyright and related laws and policy issues in the creative industries, particularly in context of music, social media, and artificial intelligence. She is the author of Copyright in the Music Industry, the producer and host of the podcast Whose Song is it Anyway? and writer for The IPKat blog. Hayleigh has an international reputation for her research, she has been cited in academic, practitioner and policy outputs and is regularly interviewed by national and international media outlets. Hayleigh has provided consultancy on the impact of AI on copyright to the creative industries and invited to give evidence to the UK Parliament on several occasions, such as in the Science, Innovation and Technology Select Committee Inquiry on the Governance of Artificial Intelligence and the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee on Large Language Models.

Speaker: Prof. Eleonora Rosati, Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Of Counsel, Stockholm University and Bird & Bird

Eleonora Rosati is Full Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Stockholm University and Of Counsel at Bird & Bird. She also holds guest/visiting positions at several other institutions, including Universidade Católica Portuguesa, CEIPI-Université de Strasbourg, Trinity College Dublin, EDHEC Business School, Glion Institute of Higher Education, and Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law, University of Cambridge. Eleonora is Editor of the Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice (Oxford University Press), long-standing contributor to The IPKat, and Co-Founder of Fashion Law London. The author of several scholarly articles and books on IP issues, Eleonora regularly prepares technical briefings and expert opinions and delivers talks at the request of inter alia international organizations and EU institutions and agencies, as well as national governments and professional bodies and organizations. She has received multiple accolades and prizes for her work in the IP field, including: Managing Intellectual Property’s ’50 Most Influential People in IP’ globally (2018); World Intellectual Property Review’s ‘Influential Women in IP’ (2020); Adepi Award 2022 for contribution to shaping the interpretation of IP law in Europe (2022).