The scholarly home of Daniel Gervais: research and writing on intellectual property, artificial intelligence, and the case for keeping human creativity at the centre of the law.

The Institute for Information Law organizes an annual intensive post-graduate course on international copyright law and policy. The face of copyright law and policy changes continuously, mostly due to...

The internet was never designed with a built-in way to tell what’s real. Is it time to build a trust layer, a stack that combines provenance, semantic checks, and user signals? Read the full article ↓...

In a previous blog post, we explained how the Restatement of the Law, Copyright was prepared, how it is structured, and how it was approved as of May by the membership of the American Law Institute (A...

In May 2025, the membership of the American Law Institute (ALI) completed a milestone in our understanding and interpretation of U.S. copyright law: the approval of its first-ever Restatement of the L...

The IPKat blog reports on copyright, patent, trade mark, info-tech and confidentiality issues from a mainly UK and European perspective.

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America’s disengagement from the multilateral trading system endangers the global IP-rights regime

COMPLETE VOLUME 39, ISSUE 3 Complete Issue FRONT MATTER Front Matter ARTICLES Preface: Pamela Samuelson and the Promotion of Progress by Molly Van Houweling Pam and Inspiring Technologists by Joseph L...