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China’s regulatory approaches to open-source resources and software deserve special attention due to the widespread global use of Chinese-developed solutions. China’s activity in the open-source software sector surged in 2020, laying the foundation for the type of innovations seen today....

By Jamie G. McWilliam. Full Text. To some, 18 U.S.C. 922(g) is a necessary safeguard that keeps guns out of the hands of dangerous persons. To others, it strips classes of non-violent people of their natural and constitutional rights. This...

Abstract Two critical policy questions will determine the impact of generative artificial intelligence (AI) on the knowledge economy and the creative sector. The first concerns how we think about the training of such models—in particular, whether the creators or owners...

The second Trump Administration is executing an extensive immigration crackdown — pulling more people into detention, expanding Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and funneling money from...The postConstruction and Management of the South Florida Detention Facilityappeared first onHarvard Law Review.

Sarah Best introduced herself to me in July 2019. She had worked that summer in the General Counsel’s Office at the U.S. Department of Education, and in the course of researching the application of the Indian-law canons of construction to...

This Essay takes as its jumping-off point Jack Balkin’s claim that judicial decisions both rely on constitutional memory and produce constitutional memory. It discusses the efforts of politicians and judges in the United States, from the moment of emancipation to...

Modern textualism has long criticized the use of practical, or consequentialist, reasoning when construing statutes. And yet in practice, textualist jurists long have invoked practical consequences arguments to help justify their statutory constructions.The postPractical Consequences in Statutory Interpretationappeared first onHarvard...

Introduction Contestation over methodology remains an enduring friction point in the discourse on the Takings Clause. For decades, the Supreme Court’s takings jurisprudence has vacillated between categorical, per se reasoning and contextual, ad hoc inquiries into what fairness and justice...

The American Law Institute is set to release a first ever Restatement of the Law in the area of Children and the Law to address the increasingly convoluted treatment of children across legal systems.[1] Children’s rights scholars have long critiqued...

Introduction At the core of intellectual property (IP) law lies a fundamental question of political philosophy: Can any argument justify the state’s grant of private property rights in intangibles?[1] To this question, scholars have responded that IP rights can be...

The integration of technology in education has transformed teaching and learning, making digital tools essential in the context of Industry 4.0. However, the rapid evolution of educational technology poses significant legal challenges that must be addressed for effective implementation. This...

The increasing role of Artificial Intelligence in the area of medical science, transportation, aviation, space, education, entertainment (music, art, games, and films), industry, and many other sectors has transformed our day to day lives. The area of Intellectual Property Rights...

In recent years, there has been a proliferation of papers in the algorithmic fairness literature proposing various technical definitions of algorithmic bias and methods to mitigate bias. Whether these algorithmic bias mitigation methods would be permissible from a legal perspective...

Objective: The objective of this study is to investigate the impact of AI breakthroughs on copyright and challenges faced by intellectual property legal protection systems. Specifically, the study aims to analyze the implications of AI-generated works in the context of...

This Article refers to the regulation of AI systems, databases and intelectual property. Directive 96/9/CE of the European Council of March 11, 1996, which is pioneering legislation for the legal protection of databases and introduces concepts for the study database...

A cybernetic avatar (CA) is a concept that encompasses not only avatars representing virtual bodies in cyberspace but also information and communication technology (ICT) and robotic technologies that enhance the physical, cognitive, and perceptual capabilities of humans. CAs can enable...

LexNLP is an open source Python package focused on natural language processing and machine learning for legal and regulatory text. The package includes functionality to (i) segment documents, (ii) identify key text such as titles and section headings, (iii) extract...

Since 2016, more than 80 AI ethics documents - including codes, principles, frameworks, and policy strategies - have been produced by corporations, governments, and NGOs. In this paper, we examine three topics of importance related to our ongoing empirical study...

The construction industry is one of the main sectors of the U.S. economy that has a major effect on the nation’s growth and prosperity. The construction industry’s contribution to the nation’s economy is, however, impeded by the increasing number of...

Preface to the Second Edition. Preface to the First Edition. Acknowledgments for the Second Edition. Acknowledgments for the First Edition. 1. Introduction and Preview. 1.1 Preview of the Book. 2. Entropy, Relative Entropy, and Mutual Information. 2.1 Entropy. 2.2 Joint...

Artificial intelligence (AI)-based cybersecurity services offer significant promise in many scenarios, including malware detection, content supervision, and so on. Meanwhile, many commercial and government applications have raised the need for intellectual property protection of using deep neural network (DNN). Existing...

Abstract This article examines how Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states securitise artificial intelligence (AI) through discourses and infrastructures that fuse modernisation with regime resilience. Drawing on securitisation theory (Buzan et al., 1998; Balzacq, 2011) and critical security studies, it analyses...

Although computers and digital technologies have existed for many decades, their capabilities today have changed dramatically. Current buzzwords like Big Data, artificial intelligence, robotics, and blockchain are shorthand for further leaps in development. The digitalisation of communication, which is a...

As the use of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to spread, we have seen an increase in examples of AI systems reflecting or exacerbating societal bias, from racist facial recognition to sexist natural language processing. These biases threaten to overshadow AI’s...

Abstract The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) and its generative capabilities have propelled innovation across various industries, yet they have also sparked intricate legal debates, particularly in the realm of copyright law. Generative AI systems, capable of producing original content...