Stratocumulus Legal is a Perth-based legal consultancy focusing on Australian intellectual property law and related legal areas.
Available for download - our reference guide for common IP considerations that arise when identifying, assessing and dealing with business assets
An issue that affects all businesses. Do you actually own the IP created by your employees and contractors?
I’ll be presenting to Morning Startup, Perth’s premier meetup for entrepreneurs, on Wednesday, 10 May 2023, on the topic “What startups need to know about IP in the new age of AI”.
My article “Copyright and Generative Artificial Intelligence” has been published in the April 2023 edition of “Brief”, the journal of the Law Society of Western Australia. Is there any copyright in a robot’s creation? And can machine learning infringe copyright? Click through for a link to the article.
I was one of the panellists at the ECU Law Assembly in November 2022, on the topic of “Legal, Policy and Ethical Implications of Robotics and Automation”, along with along with The Hon. Alannah MacTiernan MLC, The Hon. Bill Johnston MLA, and Dr Martin Allcock.
The ChatGPT artificial intelligence system is gaining significant attention for its seeming ability to write human-like prose about quite complex topics. When I asked it about the future of copyright with the advent of AI, it concluded that “it may be necessary to develop new legal frameworks or to adapt existing copyright laws to take into account the role of AI in the creation of copyrighted works”. Quite right!
Seasons Greetings from Stratocumulus Legal. Here’s our end-of-year newsletter for 2022.
The legal expectation that businesses will maintain cyber security standards that reasonably protect end clients has been shown in a new Federal Court case. All Australian businesses should take heed of this decision and review their cyber security protections and procedures – to protect their clients’ and stakeholders’ intellectual property and confidential information.
Only a human can be an inventor, meaning that AI inventions are not patentable after all. Australia’s world first flirtation with artificial intelligence as inventor has been reversed on appeal.
David is an experienced intellectual property lawyer, but also with significant general legal experience accumulated over 20 years’ experience at international law firms. Based in Perth, Western Australia, he founded Stratocumulus Legal in May 2020.
