The Importance of Legal Considerations in Digital Transformation

As digital transformations are happening to major industries, we’ve moved into an era where legal issues could become more prevalent than the technologies. 

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SHOW NOTES:

• Fair Use doctrine 
• The legal issues presented by generative AI (MIT)
• Generative AI in Healthcare and Liability Risks
• Generative AI and Intellectual Property (Benedict Evans)
• Microsoft claims it'll pay if you get sued for IP infringements for using CoPilot
• Show educators would block AI usage for legal reasons (Matt Brown)

BREAK THE LAW NOW, AND ASK FOR FORGIVENESS LATER?

• From ride-sharing to crypto to generative AI, the gray areas of the law or property ownership are at the center of the major digital transformations
• The open source community is debating what is proper licensing, and should licensing ever change?
• Are we at the beginning of LegalOps or LiabilityOps?

IS THE LIABILITY IN BUSINESS MODEL, IP, PRIVACY, FRAUD OR CORRUPTION

• What are companies liable for? Fair-use of data? AI Models? AI recommendations? AI actions? 
• What laws do cloud providers need to be concerned about? 
• What do customers need to be concerned about?
• What do systems-integrators need to be concerned about?

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