Uncovering the AI-Copyright Trap
From Diana Park
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From Diana Park
This presentation is part of a 2025 speaker series, Critical AI Literacy in Information Work, supported by the AI Literacy Center at Oregon State University. This presentation was supported by the OSU Libraries Gray Family Fund.
As AI tools proliferate, law and policy makers are being called upon to protect creators and the cultural industries from the extractive, exploitative, and even existential threats posed by generative AI. Professor Carys Craig warns that, in our haste to act, we risk running headlong into a copyright trap. In this presentation, Professor Craig will explain what she means by the “AI copyright trap”, the routes by which it draws people in, and why it threatens to obstruct the path towards responsible and ethical AI.
Dr. Carys Craig is a Full Professor at York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, Canada. She currently serves as Osgoode’s Associate Dean (Research & Institutional Relations), Director of IP Osgoode (Osgoode’s IP & Technology Law program), and Academic Director of Osgoode’s Professional LLM Program in IP Law. Professor Craig holds a First-Class Honours LLB from the University of Edinburgh, an LLM from Queen’s University, and an SJD from the University of Toronto.