Highlights from AccelPro IP Law - Volume I
With Sandra Aistars, Chris Storm and Simon Pulman | Interviews by Neal Ungerleider
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Welcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today, we are featuring a look back at recent interviews with experts in the intellectual property law field.
George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School's Sandra Aistars on AI Output and Training - Evolving Environments
Uber’s Chris Storm on Standard Essential Patents and Transportation
Pryor Cashman's Simon Pulman on Entertainment and IP Law - Industry Developments Around Franchise Media
All AccelPro episodes are available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube.
I. On AI Output and Training - Evolving Environments
With Sandra Aistars, Clinical Professor at George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School
Generative artificial intelligence is continuing to transform business, entertainment and digital life. Questions of ownership around AI-generated output and training AI using copyrighted data continue to keep experts busy around the world. And the rise of generative artificial intelligence tools is leading to new copyright and IP questions for creators, rights-holders and judges alike.
Sandra Aistars is a Clinical Professor at George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School and leads the law school’s Arts & Entertainment Program. She is also Senior Fellow for Copyright Research and Policy and a Senior Scholar at the Center for Intellectual Property x Innovation Policy.
In this conversation, Aistars discusses generative artificial intelligence output and training, as well as the intellectual property and copyright issues surrounding it.
II. On Standard Essential Patents and Transportation
With Chris Storm, Legal Director, Intellectual Property at Uber
Standard essential patents (SEPs) play an essential role in the transportation ecosystem. These patents, which cover innovations fundamental to achieving technical standards, help ensure interoperability and consistency across diverse technologies. Due to their importance, a set of legal and economic frameworks have grown around SEPs.
Chris Storm is Uber’s Legal Director, Intellectual Property, where he oversees IP strategy and protection for Uber. He previously worked as assistant general counsel at Bell Helicopter and as an associate at Baker Botts LLP. Storm speaks and writes frequently about topics related to IP licensing.
In this interview, Storm discusses SEPs, the transportation industry and related topics, including non-competes and legal frameworks for interoperability.
III. On Entertainment and IP Law - Industry Developments Around Franchise Media
With Simon Pulman, Partner at Pryor Cashman LLP
Video games, comic books and book franchises remain fundamentally important in the media landscape. Intellectual property lawyers and their clients have been keeping up with a staggering array of changes and developments in the way rights to these properties are handled and negotiated.
In this conversation, Simon Pulman, a Partner at Pryor Cashman and Co-Chair of the firm’s Media + Entertainment group, discusses entertainment deals for IP rights holders, IP issues in building properties around gaming and comic books, copyright issues related to user generated content and the importance of relationships in an entertainment law career.
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