Carys Craig
@caryscraig.bsky.social
Professor of Law (Intellectual Property, Copyright, Trademarks, Technology Law & Legal Theory), Osgoode Hall Law School, York University - Director, IP Osgoode - Associate Dean (Research & Institutional Relations) - 🏴 in 🇨🇦
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I have been dreaming of this day for over five years. Proctorio’s lawsuit against me is forever over. I’ve won my life back!
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Update #33: The lawsuit is over! | Stand Against Proctorio's SLAPP!
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November 13, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I have been dreaming of this day for over five years. Proctorio’s lawsuit against me is forever over. I’ve won my life back!
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Below the line of the 1st page of Professor Dan Burk's last article, just published posthumously by the UC Irvine Law Review.
November 13, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Below the line of the 1st page of Professor Dan Burk's last article, just published posthumously by the UC Irvine Law Review.
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Highlighting the relevant chart...
November 14, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Highlighting the relevant chart...
In the latest #IPilogue blogpost, Osgoode PhD researcher Shadi Nasseri shares her reflections on the recent international #copyright conference, which was proudly co-hosted by #IPOsgoode, on 'The Legacy of CCH Canadian Ltd. v. LSUC and the Future of Copyright Law'. See: www.yorku.ca/osgoode/ipos...
Currents, Waves, and Ripple Effects – CCH’s Legacy at Home and Abroad - IPOsgoode
In March 2004, the Supreme Court of Canada released CCH Canadian Ltd. v. Law Society of Upper Canada. Twenty-one years later, scholars, practitioners, professionals, and observers gathered in Toronto ...
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October 17, 2025 at 3:18 PM
In the latest #IPilogue blogpost, Osgoode PhD researcher Shadi Nasseri shares her reflections on the recent international #copyright conference, which was proudly co-hosted by #IPOsgoode, on 'The Legacy of CCH Canadian Ltd. v. LSUC and the Future of Copyright Law'. See: www.yorku.ca/osgoode/ipos...
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...and my a2aj.ca project released a working paper by @simonwallace.bsky.social and me about bulk access to Canadian legal data, the role of @canlii.bsky.social, & our new open-source alternative (a2aj.ca/canadian-legal-data)
Paper is here:
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Paper is here:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
September 16, 2025 at 4:31 PM
...and my a2aj.ca project released a working paper by @simonwallace.bsky.social and me about bulk access to Canadian legal data, the role of @canlii.bsky.social, & our new open-source alternative (a2aj.ca/canadian-legal-data)
Paper is here:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Paper is here:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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A busy week...
My @refugeelab.ca released our report about tech and alternatives to immigration detention, co-authored by @danghez.bsky.social & @petramolnar.com, and co-published with @kaldorcentre.bsky.social and @idcoalition.bsky.social:
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My @refugeelab.ca released our report about tech and alternatives to immigration detention, co-authored by @danghez.bsky.social & @petramolnar.com, and co-published with @kaldorcentre.bsky.social and @idcoalition.bsky.social:
www.unsw.edu.au/content/dam/...
September 16, 2025 at 4:31 PM
A busy week...
My @refugeelab.ca released our report about tech and alternatives to immigration detention, co-authored by @danghez.bsky.social & @petramolnar.com, and co-published with @kaldorcentre.bsky.social and @idcoalition.bsky.social:
www.unsw.edu.au/content/dam/...
My @refugeelab.ca released our report about tech and alternatives to immigration detention, co-authored by @danghez.bsky.social & @petramolnar.com, and co-published with @kaldorcentre.bsky.social and @idcoalition.bsky.social:
www.unsw.edu.au/content/dam/...
Registration is open! Join us for an international conference on ‘The Legacy of CCH Canadian Ltd. v. LSUC and the Future of Copyright Law’, taking place on Sept 19-20th in downtown Toronto and live-streaming online! 📚©️
Find more information and a link to register here: www.yorku.ca/osgoode/ipos...
Find more information and a link to register here: www.yorku.ca/osgoode/ipos...
September 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Registration is open! Join us for an international conference on ‘The Legacy of CCH Canadian Ltd. v. LSUC and the Future of Copyright Law’, taking place on Sept 19-20th in downtown Toronto and live-streaming online! 📚©️
Find more information and a link to register here: www.yorku.ca/osgoode/ipos...
Find more information and a link to register here: www.yorku.ca/osgoode/ipos...
This is a fun episode on AI art and copyright law npr.org - nicely done by @ecjacobs.bsky.social! I was pleased to be included alongside @davidfewer.bsky.social.
Truly a delight to work with @wailinwong.bsky.social and @juliaritchey.bsky.social on this episode of @npr.org The Indicator. www.npr.org/2025/08/25/n...
Can you copyright artwork made using AI? : The Indicator from Planet Money
Copyright is the legal system used to reward and protect creations made by humans. But with growing adoption of artificial intelligence, does copyright extend to artwork that’s made using AI? Today on...
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August 30, 2025 at 2:13 AM
This is a fun episode on AI art and copyright law npr.org - nicely done by @ecjacobs.bsky.social! I was pleased to be included alongside @davidfewer.bsky.social.
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CALL FOR PAPERS! 🪩🎉🎊🪩🎉🎊🪩🎉🎊 It's out and full of information. Check it out! Get in touch with questions!
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Call for Papers: Inaugural Association of Law and Political Economy (ALPE) Conference
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July 16, 2025 at 6:28 PM
CALL FOR PAPERS! 🪩🎉🎊🪩🎉🎊🪩🎉🎊 It's out and full of information. Check it out! Get in touch with questions!
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Great post by @technollama: “Copyright is messy.…
Stop trying to make copyright do something that it’s not meant to do. Some of the issues that are being discussed are about societal challenges. They are also about competition, funding to the arts, capitalism, corporate greed, and inequality.” +1 👏
Stop trying to make copyright do something that it’s not meant to do. Some of the issues that are being discussed are about societal challenges. They are also about competition, funding to the arts, capitalism, corporate greed, and inequality.” +1 👏
How AI is breaking traditional remuneration models
It's been a busy few weeks in the AI and copyright beat, and while I've been following all of the developments closely, I haven't had the time to react to everything in the blog. However, with two first decisions handed down in the US, and one in…
It's been a busy few weeks in the AI and copyright beat, and while I've been following all of the developments closely, I haven't had the time to react to everything in the blog. However, with two first decisions handed down in the US, and one in…
How AI is breaking traditional remuneration models
It's been a busy few weeks in the AI and copyright beat, and while I've been following all of the developments closely, I haven't had the time to react to everything in the blog. However, with two first decisions handed down in the US, and one in the UK expected soon, it is a perfect time to start looking at the subject from a long-term perspective.
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July 9, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Great post by @technollama: “Copyright is messy.…
Stop trying to make copyright do something that it’s not meant to do. Some of the issues that are being discussed are about societal challenges. They are also about competition, funding to the arts, capitalism, corporate greed, and inequality.” +1 👏
Stop trying to make copyright do something that it’s not meant to do. Some of the issues that are being discussed are about societal challenges. They are also about competition, funding to the arts, capitalism, corporate greed, and inequality.” +1 👏
South African apex court recognises the “constitutional imperatives of equality and dignity for persons with disabilities” in a landmark copyright judgment 🎉 | infojustice
Check out Dr. Sanya Samtani’s excellent blogpost explaining yesterday’s remarkable ruling 👇
infojustice.org/archives/46309
Check out Dr. Sanya Samtani’s excellent blogpost explaining yesterday’s remarkable ruling 👇
infojustice.org/archives/46309
South African apex court recognises the “constitutional imperatives of equality and dignity for persons with disabilities” in landmark copyright judgment | infojustice
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May 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
South African apex court recognises the “constitutional imperatives of equality and dignity for persons with disabilities” in a landmark copyright judgment 🎉 | infojustice
Check out Dr. Sanya Samtani’s excellent blogpost explaining yesterday’s remarkable ruling 👇
infojustice.org/archives/46309
Check out Dr. Sanya Samtani’s excellent blogpost explaining yesterday’s remarkable ruling 👇
infojustice.org/archives/46309
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Robot Law: Volume II, edited by @rcalo.bsky.social, @mfroomkin.bsky.social and @kristenthomasen.bsky.social
Contributors incl: @hartzog.bsky.social @caryscraig.bsky.social @timhwang.bsky.social @cyn-k.bsky.social @karenlevy.bsky.social @abeba.bsky.social
Free chapter ➡️ doi.org/10.4337/9781...
Contributors incl: @hartzog.bsky.social @caryscraig.bsky.social @timhwang.bsky.social @cyn-k.bsky.social @karenlevy.bsky.social @abeba.bsky.social
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May 6, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Robot Law: Volume II, edited by @rcalo.bsky.social, @mfroomkin.bsky.social and @kristenthomasen.bsky.social
Contributors incl: @hartzog.bsky.social @caryscraig.bsky.social @timhwang.bsky.social @cyn-k.bsky.social @karenlevy.bsky.social @abeba.bsky.social
Free chapter ➡️ doi.org/10.4337/9781...
Contributors incl: @hartzog.bsky.social @caryscraig.bsky.social @timhwang.bsky.social @cyn-k.bsky.social @karenlevy.bsky.social @abeba.bsky.social
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#WeRobot2025 NEXT PANEL: AI Fairness & Discrimination ft "The Fairness-Accuracy Tradeoff Myth in AI" by @ignaciocofone.bsky.social & "Artificial Intelligence and the Discrimination Injury" by @aselbst.bsky.social with @caryscraig.bsky.social as discussant! static1.squarespace.com/static/66e43... +
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April 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
#WeRobot2025 NEXT PANEL: AI Fairness & Discrimination ft "The Fairness-Accuracy Tradeoff Myth in AI" by @ignaciocofone.bsky.social & "Artificial Intelligence and the Discrimination Injury" by @aselbst.bsky.social with @caryscraig.bsky.social as discussant! static1.squarespace.com/static/66e43... +
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As #AI tools become more prevalent, #policymakers are urged to protect creators & cultural industries from the threats posed by #generativeAI. However, in their rush to act, they may fall into the "Copyright Trap."
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March 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
As #AI tools become more prevalent, #policymakers are urged to protect creators & cultural industries from the threats posed by #generativeAI. However, in their rush to act, they may fall into the "Copyright Trap."
Read: http://spkl.io/63321fQcDU
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Read: http://spkl.io/63321fQcDU
Subscribe: http://spkl.io/63322fQcDq
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It's about turning a million little monopolies into one big one, and using it to pummel independent artists, technologists, and the public. Maybe some day someone will be interested in that version of this story, instead of the same old "You wouldn't steal a car??!" cliches.
March 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
It's about turning a million little monopolies into one big one, and using it to pummel independent artists, technologists, and the public. Maybe some day someone will be interested in that version of this story, instead of the same old "You wouldn't steal a car??!" cliches.
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And their endgame is never an artists' utopia, it's a world where (as @caryscraig.bsky.social explains) a few big corporations control the creative economy, where no one can make or use creative tools without permission from the biggest copyright incumbent industries.
March 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
And their endgame is never an artists' utopia, it's a world where (as @caryscraig.bsky.social explains) a few big corporations control the creative economy, where no one can make or use creative tools without permission from the biggest copyright incumbent industries.
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This is 1000% the correct take on copyright and AI, from @caryscraig.bsky.social. If we can't break through the braindead "You stole mah website!" level of discourse, we're going to be in a world where Marvel and UMG dictate terms for this technology. www.yorku.ca/yfile/2025/0...
March 21, 2025 at 12:53 PM
This is 1000% the correct take on copyright and AI, from @caryscraig.bsky.social. If we can't break through the braindead "You stole mah website!" level of discourse, we're going to be in a world where Marvel and UMG dictate terms for this technology. www.yorku.ca/yfile/2025/0...
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Even as the number of legal cases grows, a definite answer to the question of whether artificial intelligence companies can use copyrighted content to train their AI products is still a long way off
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Canada, other countries struggling to come up with new rules for AI and copyright
The battle between AI companies and copyright holders notched an early win for publishers in the U.S. in mid-February when a court ruled that a legal research firm didn’t have the right to use a rival...
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March 3, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Even as the number of legal cases grows, a definite answer to the question of whether artificial intelligence companies can use copyrighted content to train their AI products is still a long way off
www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/art...
www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/art...
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Rejoignez-nous CE JEUDI le 27 février pour en apprendre plus sur l’utilisation équitable et l’intelligence artificielle dans le milieu universitaire avec Carys Craig, juriste et experte en droit d'auteur et en intelligence artificielle.
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February 24, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Rejoignez-nous CE JEUDI le 27 février pour en apprendre plus sur l’utilisation équitable et l’intelligence artificielle dans le milieu universitaire avec Carys Craig, juriste et experte en droit d'auteur et en intelligence artificielle.
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It’s Fair Dealing Week! Join us THIS THURSDAY Feb. 27 to learn more about fair dealing and AI in the academy from legal scholar and copyright and artificial intelligence expert Carys Craig.
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February 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
It’s Fair Dealing Week! Join us THIS THURSDAY Feb. 27 to learn more about fair dealing and AI in the academy from legal scholar and copyright and artificial intelligence expert Carys Craig.
Register now: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Register now: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Delighted to finally get my hands on this beauty 💖 and very grateful to have been included! So many *must-reads* in here on IP & Gender: www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/b... My chapter takes aim at the ‘empirical turn’—all the efforts we’re seeing to measure women’s participation in the IP system…
February 23, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Delighted to finally get my hands on this beauty 💖 and very grateful to have been included! So many *must-reads* in here on IP & Gender: www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/b... My chapter takes aim at the ‘empirical turn’—all the efforts we’re seeing to measure women’s participation in the IP system…
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As AI disrupts our existing copyright regimes, it's critical that we protect fair dealing - the concept that makes copyright compatible with education and freedom of speech.
Join @caut.bsky.social and law professor Carys Craig next week to talk about it!
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Join @caut.bsky.social and law professor Carys Craig next week to talk about it!
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Fair Dealing Week Keynote 2025 / Allocution d’ouverture de la Semaine de l’utilisation équitable 2025. After registering, you will receive a confirmation em...
Carys Craig is a legal scholar and copyright and artificial intelligence expert at Osgoode Hall Law School. The title of her keynote is “Fair Dealing and AI in the Academy: Reflections on the Right to...
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February 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
As AI disrupts our existing copyright regimes, it's critical that we protect fair dealing - the concept that makes copyright compatible with education and freedom of speech.
Join @caut.bsky.social and law professor Carys Craig next week to talk about it!
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Join @caut.bsky.social and law professor Carys Craig next week to talk about it!
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The Government of Canada has just released its ‘What We Heard’ Report summarizing submissions to its ‘Consultation on Copyright in the Age of Generative AI’ 🇨🇦 🤖
Tl;dr [*spoiler alert*]: They heard lots of ‘stakeholders’ fundamentally disagreeing with one another 🤷♀️ ised-isde.canada.ca/site/strateg...
Tl;dr [*spoiler alert*]: They heard lots of ‘stakeholders’ fundamentally disagreeing with one another 🤷♀️ ised-isde.canada.ca/site/strateg...
Consultation on Copyright in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence: What we heard report
Table of Contents
Introduction
Who We Heard From
What We Heard
Text and data mining (TDM)
Authorship and ownership of works generated by AI
Infringement and liability regarding AI
Engag...
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February 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
The Government of Canada has just released its ‘What We Heard’ Report summarizing submissions to its ‘Consultation on Copyright in the Age of Generative AI’ 🇨🇦 🤖
Tl;dr [*spoiler alert*]: They heard lots of ‘stakeholders’ fundamentally disagreeing with one another 🤷♀️ ised-isde.canada.ca/site/strateg...
Tl;dr [*spoiler alert*]: They heard lots of ‘stakeholders’ fundamentally disagreeing with one another 🤷♀️ ised-isde.canada.ca/site/strateg...
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This paper by @caryscraig.bsky.social is teeming with quotable phrases and notable ideas regarding the falsity of "copyright vs. AI" arguments: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The AI-Copyright Trap
As AI tools proliferate, policy makers are increasingly being called upon to protect creators and the cultural industries from the extractive, exploitative, and
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February 7, 2025 at 12:56 AM
This paper by @caryscraig.bsky.social is teeming with quotable phrases and notable ideas regarding the falsity of "copyright vs. AI" arguments: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....