A striking moment from a recent 60 MINUTES segment on AI art: Refik Anadol described data as “a pigment that doesn’t need to dry.”

That metaphor reveals both the promise and the disruption of generative AI.
Perhaps the most important insight from the segment came from critic Jerry Saltz, who distinguished between “AI art” and art that uses AI. The distinction matters. AI is not an author in the human sense. But it is rapidly becoming part of the infrastructure through which authorship occurs.

The legal system now faces a foundational question: not whether AI can create, but how law should govern creativity when it emerges from hybrid human-machine systems. We are watching, in real time, the emergence of a new creative and legal order.

Together with about 800 registrants joining us in person and virtually from around the world, I look forward to exploring these questions next week at the International Tech & IP Disputes Exchange (I-TIDE) in New York and San Francisco, where judges, practitioners, technologists, and scholars will examine how courts across jurisdictions are beginning to confront these issues. The event is proudly co-organized by WIPO, IPOS, and Penn State Dickinson Law.

Hope to see you there! https://lnkd.in/gRQtbCG7 Register even if you can’t come! We’ll send you a recording.

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Daren Tang World Intellectual Property Organization – WIPO | Danielle Conway Penn State Dickinson Law | Kong Hwee Tan Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) | Jordan Gimbel Microsoft | Gideon Myles OpenAI | Jon Small Google DeepMind | Joe Gratz Morrison Foerster | David Kappos Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP | Richard Hung Morrison Foerster | Joshua L. Simmons Kirkland & Ellis | Tom Pease Greenberg Traurig, LLP | Rachael Kent WilmerHale | Adriana Uson Singapore International Arbitration Centre | Dr Stanley Lai, SC Allen & Gledhill LLP | Ignacio de Castro WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center | Mark Fisher Asian Business Law Institute | Crystal Tan Singapore International Commercial Court | Jacob Noti-Victor Cardozo School of Law | Ethan J. Updike, Kelly & Spellacy, P.C.