Artificial Intelligence and the Trouble for Authorship: Towards a Legal Theory of Effort YouTube video by UCL Laws

Next was a compelling talk by @profjohanna.bsky.social (👋) on building a legal theory of effort to mitigate the problem of generative AI use and authorship at @laws.ucl.ac.uk www.youtube.com/watch?v=B48w... (3/6)

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Italy Fines Armani, Shein in Fashion Industry ESG Crackdown Italy is turning up the regulatory heat on the fashion industry as part of a broader clampdown on ESG claims and exploitative labor practices.

Italy fines Armani, Shein in Fashion Industry ESG Crackdown www.thefashionlaw.com/tl-dr-italy-...

So, does this mean Twitter will come back? 🤣

Book Launch: Wanted, More Than Human Intellectual Property YouTube video by QMUL School of Law

Next was a fantastic panel on analyzing animal creativity to interrogate dominant theories of IP authorship and ownership at the QMUL School of Law with @profjohanna.bsky.social and @alvareznakagawa.bsky.social. Highly recommend www.youtube.com/watch?v=56TN... (7/11)

Predatory ‘patents’ and design deceit: when the intellectual property system is recruited in academic fraud "Predatory ‘patents’ and design deceit: when the intellectual property system is recruited in academic fraud" published on 01 May 2025 by Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

Después de las revistas y congresos depredadores… 🥁🎺(redoble de tambor) tachán, tachán… llegan las patentes “depredadoras” 🦇

Interesantes reflexiones de @profjohanna.bsky.social sobre las patentes "depredadoras" y esas prácticas que aprovechan la propiedad intelectual para el fraude académico 🧛

Predatory ‘patents’ and design deceit: when the intellectual property system is recruited in academic fraud Professor Johanna Gibson Full access Download PDF Category: Editorial Page Range: 143–148 Published: 01 May 2025 DOI: https://doi.org/10.4337/qmjip.2025.02.00 Volume/Issue: Volume 15: Issue 2 Full Text PDF 1 INTRODUCTION Academic fraud is always a question of authorship – or more specifically, it is the disarticulation of authorship from the copyright artefact, the luxation of the author’s own intellectual creation and its expression. Academic fraud turns the prestige of authorship into a commodity and sets it afloat in a sea of anonymous and unanchored objects. Whether such fraud concerns plagiarism, or paper mills, or the mainstreaming of generative-AI and similar routes to text, these forms of ‘acquired’ authorship detach authorship from the wider process of knowledge generation and stewardship.

Thanks to @profjohanna.bsky.social for this discussion of our "patent mills" article: www.elgaronline.com/view/journal...

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Brilliant evening, and wonderful dinner discussions! So great to see you!

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Chapters by @leightonevans.bsky.social, @profjohanna.bsky.social Alexander Herman @eyobderillo1.bsky.social @kathryneccles.bsky.social Kristen Casey, Emily Gould, Nick Herman, @leoba.bsky.social Junmin Liu @visaimmonen.bsky.social @erikmc.bsky.social Hafizur Rahaman, Maryvelma O'Neil, Andrew Yip

Thank you so much @anamariaherman.bsky.social I’m delighted to be a part of this great collection

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Picture of the book cover of Wanted, More Than Human Intellectual Property beside the spines of Owned (the first book) and Wanted

My latest book is here! Wanted, More Than Human Intellectual Property is the second in a 3 book project with Routledge. It follows Owned and will itself be followed by Made (hopefully before not too long!) www.routledge.com/Wanted-More-...

Available to download for free here www.elgaronline.com/view/journal...

My latest for @qmjip.bsky.social - on @mileycyrus.bsky.social and her Grammy-winning Flowers, revisionist music, and copyright. Does copyright have a cultural bias when it comes to appropriation practices and understanding pastiche, parody and quotation in music? www.elgaronline.com/view/journal...

Luo Li and Johanna Gibson

Cover of Luo Li’s book - Intellectual Property Protection of Traditional Cultural Expressions: Folklore in China

This afternoon I caught up with my very first PhD graduate, Luo Li! She wrote a brilliant thesis which quickly became a book. And we just picked up where we left off (not supervision … gossip!). It was so fun!

Horizons in Fashion Law: Education, Research, Practice YouTube video by QMUL School of Law

Genuinely relieved and excited to announce a brand new LLM in Fashion Law @qmul.ac.uk which will launch in Sept 2025. I recently gave the inaugural fashion lecture at CCLS where I delivered something of a manifesto for fashion on the postgraduate law curriculum ☺️ youtu.be/nQB8R6wIIXk?...

It’s good to celebrate milestones! We don’t celebrate enough, and then good things just disappear into more work and we miss the opportunity 🤣 Apparently it’s good for people to celebrate achievements, but it’s definitely tricky for Australians and Scots 😉

Posh Spice (aka Victoria Beckham) of the Spice Girls pointing at the camera

This is the best proof ever that Google AI search is terrible. I kept searching which one is the Spice Girl who pointed. The AI overview said
Emma Bunton, then Geri … but not once did it say Posh Spice! You know!? The one who points! 🤣

Thanks so much for joining, really glad you enjoyed it!

Horizons in Fashion Law: Education, Research, Practice Film Fashion Forum

Today! 5pm GMT. Looking forward to seeing many of you there. It’s free! Not sure if there are in-person tickets left but you can still join online, details in the link www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/horizons-i...

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The Silent Peacemaker: Intellectual Property Rights and the Interwar International Legal Order, 1919–1939 This collection of essays explores the role intellectual property played in the interwar period and the expansion and protection of intellectual property rights. The geographical scope of the book is ...

@profjohanna.bsky.social, 'The Pretension Is Nothing; the Performance Everything': The Origin of Performers' Rights and the Creation of the Performer as Artist : preview on G Bks: books.google.ca/books?hl=en&... with many other great essays in this volume @ishtip.bsky.social @lpcprof.bsky.social

We at the QMUL Criminal Justice Centre are developing a movie night for our students and need your help. Please tell me your favourite movies that are criminal justice themed-related-adjacent-relevant. They can be from any jurisdiction and any epoch.

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Working on a weekend is not so bad if you have desktop support ☺️ #AcademicsWithCats #RescueCat #PolyStyrene