Thursday, 1 February 2024    By André Chissel and Jeffrey Lim

The UK Supreme Court held, on 20 December 2023, that an AI system could NOT be an inventor for two UK Patent applications. The reasons given are somewhat more prosaic than you might have guessed, except, as always, there are potentially wider implications that were not addressed by the Court.

 25 October 2023

Developers and users of Generative A.I. ("Gen A.I.") can find themselves having to navigate copyright challenges but to do so requires some understanding of both how a Gen A.I. model manipulates copyright works as part of its training and development and how copyright law might apply to such use.

So what exactly happens to content when it is used to develop Gen A.I., and how might this be analysed from the Singapore law perspective? This article explores what might be one way of how the law might apply.

This is our second article published on Gen A.I. and copyright. The first ("Did Singapore Solve Copyright Issues in the Training of AI Models?" dated 25 August 2023, can be found here).

By Jeffrey Lim

25 August 2023  

When Artificial Intelligence models are trained against data, the potential for copyright infringement exists under the laws of some, if not most, countries. Did Singapore's Copyright Act 2021 solve this problem? This article explores what Singapore's changes to its laws mean.

By Jeffrey Lim