About This Webinar
Thanks to generative AI, deepfakes—synthetically created or altered images, video, and audio—have become increasingly realistic, accessible, and versatile. While generative AI tools open new possibilities, they also make it easier to infringe intellectual property and misappropriate individuals’ identities. In this webinar, Professor Michael Goodyear of New York Law School will explain how copyright, trademark, and the right of publicity are evolving to respond to this technological and cultural change, and why a proper response must account for both dissemination and the dignitary and economic harms at stake. He will address:
* The unique nature of harm that arises from sharing—rather than just creating—deepfakes
* The tension between notice-and-takedown obligations in copyright and trademark law and the First Amendment
* The lessons offered by the emergence of the portable camera in 1890 for today’s right-of-publicity challenges
* The potential for the right of publicity to constrain deepfakes while addressing both economic and dignitary harms

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Presenter
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    Michael Goodyear
    Associate Professor at New York Law School
    Michael Goodyear is an Associate Professor at New York Law School. Professor Goodyear’s research explores how copyright, trademark, the right of publicity, and related rights and liabilities evolve in response to technological and cultural change, including deepfakes. He also studies how intellectual property law can empower historically underrepresented populations, especially LGBTQ+ and Indigenous communities. His work has been published or is forthcoming in over a dozen law reviews, including the UC Davis Law Review, Arizona State Law Journal, University of Illinois Law Review, and Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, as well as popular press and scientific publications such as Slate, the Boston Globe, and Issues in Science and Technology. He has presented his work at dozens of venues around the world, including the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia, Yale, NYU, University College London, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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