The RightsTech Project is excited to announce Reed Smith LLP and the UCLA Center for Media, Entertainment and Sports as our new partners for the RightsTech AI Summit @ DEW, presented by Digital Media Wire. The event will be held at the Carnesale Commons conference center on the campus of UCLA on February 5, 2024. Join us for a full day of panels and keynotes focused on generative AI, copyright, licensing, rights investing and more. Early bird registration is now open,
AGENDA
Welcome & Opening Remarks
9:15 AM – 9:30 AM PT
Granting Permission: Toward a Licensing Model for Generative AI
9:30 AM – 10:15 AM PT
Artists, authors, and media companies agree that the use of copyrighted works to train generative AI models requires a license and remuneration to rights owners. But how would such a licensing regime be implemented? If direct licensing is impractical at the scale required, how should any collective licensing system be designed? How would it be managed? Are existing collective licensing systems up to the task? This panel will examine how artists and rights owners in different media sectors thinking about the challenge.
Keynote Conversation
10:15 AM – 10:45 AM PT
More information available soon.
Networking Break
10:45 AM – 11:00 AM PT
Opting Out of AI Training
11:00 AM – 11:45 PM PT
While artists and rights owners await action by lawmakers and the courts on copyright rules for generative AI, do-not-train tags, data “poisoning,” and other new technical measures could offer another avenue for creators to protect their work against unlicensed use to train AI models. This panel will highlight the latest tools being developed, how they’re being implemented and who is adopting them.
Featured Presentations
11:45 AM – 12:15 PM PT
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Lunch
12:15 PM – 1:30 PM PT
Update on AI Regulation & Legislation
1:30 PM – 2:15 PM PT
An overview of the latest AI-related regulatory and legislative initiatives. Where things stand, from the implanting the European Union’s AI Act, to copyright laws, to antitrust enforcement and creating a federal publicity right.
The Price of Rights in the Age of AI
2:15 PM – 3:00 PM PT
From song catalogs, to film and television libraries, to literary estates, copyrights have been a hot asset class. But has the market cooled? How has the rapid growth of generative AI affected valuations, and what does the new macroeconomic environments portend for the future of rights investing?
Networking Break
3:00 PM PT – 3:15 PM PT
Copyrighting Generative AI
3:15 PM – 4:00 PM PT
In the most of the world, works created by artificial intelligence cannot be copyrighted. But works containing AI elements alongside the work of human creators sometimes can be. But where is the line? How much AI is too much? How can creators make sure their works containing AI elements can be protected?
AI & Content ID
4:00 PM – 4:45 PM PT
Identifying and detecting works produced by AI is essential for filtering AI content from streaming royalty pools and preventing fraud. This panel will highlight the latest efforts to develop effective AI detection and identification tools and their integration with real world services and applications.
Closing Remarks
4:45 PM – 5:00 PM PT
Reception
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM PT