AI & Authorship - Grand theft or Innovation?

In the era dominated by digital platforms, knowledge workers and organisations grapple with challenges in the devaluation of human creative work through AI and the lack of harmonization in the meaning of authorship across differing jurisdictions.

What do we understand by creativity in a work environment where artificial and human intelligence are increasingly integrated?

Join Professor Rohan Kariyawasam in this thought-provoking presentation where he further explores the significant implications for the training of AI applications and what this might mean for authors and creatives.

Professor Rohan Kariyawasam SFHEA FRSA, ARU

Rohan is Professor of Law & Technology at ARU. His work involves the intersection of technology, IP, information law, and the humanities. His current research looks at AI, blockchain/SMART contracts, and algorithmic regulation. He has completed projects as Principal and/or Co-Investigator for the ESRC, AHRC, AHRB, European Commission, and World Bank, and in commercial research for McGraw-Hill in London, Kuala Lumpur, and Hong Kong. He was awarded an MC Fellowship by the British Academy for his work on market competition, net neutrality, and privacy on the internet, and appointed to the E15 Digital Economy Expert Group of the World Economic Forum and International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development. Through funding from the AHRC, he led a project completing one of the largest field research surveys in China on fair use of copyright in the digital economy, the results of which informed a 2021 Research England impact case on suggested amendments to the Chinese Copyright Act.

Kariyawasam trained as a computer and communications engineer with Marconi/MoD. He then went on to work as a lawyer in private practice (Clifford Chance/Field Fisher/Dentons) with a leading range of telcos and ISPs, specialising in technology law, IP, competition and trade. Rohan obtained his PhD in commercial and IP law at the Centre for Commercial Law, Queen Mary University of London. He was a Fulbright Scholar and Berkman Fellow at the Berkman Klein Centre for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. Currently, Rohan leads the Digital Justice and Access to Justice in Online Environments Research Cluster at the Centre for Justice & Inclusion at ARU.