TL4 - The Competition Law & Artificial Intelligence Summit 2024
Hausfeld Associate, Giulia Trojano spoke at the inaugural edition of an event focusing specifically on the competition risks presented by the development and deployment of AI systems and their regulation.
Giulia together with Omar Shah from Morgan Lewis, Jordan Ellison from Slaughter and May, and Shula Teare van Hagan from DuckDuckGo explored data, IP and copyright infringement arising out of the training, fine-tuning and grounding of AI models.
Giulia discussed:
- Copyright issues arising out of datasets used to train foundation models, including by reference to the recent Hollywood strikes;
- Competition concerns arising from publishers restricting usage of their content through the use of blockers;
- Licensing deals between publishers and model developers, and their impact on start-ups and businesses seeking to challenge incumbents; and
- Whether copyright provides publishers with sufficient countervailing market power to be compensated for the use of their works and why this raises competition concerns.
This in-person event was held on 3rd December 2024 and, in addition to legal practitioners and economists, included speakers from the European Commission, Competition Markets Authority, Information Commissioner’s Office as well as counsel from DuckDuckGo, OpenAI and Meta.
