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Looking back, looking forward
LEGAL BRIEF
By Max Stul Oppenheimer, Esq.
The big tech story of 2024 was, by far, artificial intelligence.
Although it was often portrayed as sui generis (Latin for “we’ve never seen anything like it, and we need to start thinking from scratch …”), the emergence of artificial intelligence into public use and consciousness highlighted (and added urgency to) old issues, more than it created any new ones.
The questions — who owns personal information, where does the right to privacy begin and end, what are the limits of copyright’s fair use doctrine, to what extent can free speech be controlled in the interest of other rights (such as privacy or the protection of minors) — are not new, nor even recent.
Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (22.03.0, 2025-01-20).