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Robert P. Merges, The Law of Human Creativity in the AI Age: Copyright and Patent Standards and the Impact of AI Tools.
Robert P. Merges, The Law of Human Creativity in the AI Age: Copyright and Patent Standards and the Impact of AI Tools.
Date：2024-07-05
Professor Robert P. Merges, member of the Global Faculty of PKU Law School and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, gave a lecture on “The Law of Human Creativity in the AI Age: Copyright and Patent Standards and the Impact of AI Tools”. The lecture highlighted the significant changes in innovation and creation when AI steps in and explored how intellectual property can adapt to these changes to ensure that “machine creativity” enhances rather than replaces human creativity.
【Speaker Profile】
Robert P. Merges is the Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and co-Director of Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. Before joining the Berkeley faculty in 1995, Robert Merges was a faculty member at the Boston University School of Law and served as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School. He has also been a Visiting Professor at Stanford Law School. Merges has authored or coauthored many books, such as Patent Law and Policy: Cases and Materials; Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age; Legal Protection for Computer Technology; Trademarks, Unfair Competition and Business Torts; Justifying Intellectual Property. He has also edited six other books and published several articles. Merges is a co-founder and co-Faculty Director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, the cornerstone of Berkeley Law’s intellectual property program. In addition to teaching and research projects, Merges is a co-founder and former Managing Director of Ovidian LLC, a Berkeley-based consulting and informatics company.
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