Nathalie FAYETTE

On April 18, Nathalie FAYETTE had the pleasure of taking part in interviews with MonacoTech and Monaco Boost Starts Up, selected by WIPO. WIPO had taken the initiative of organizing a seminar on Intellectual Property in cooperation with the Permanent Mission of the Principality of Monaco in Geneva, the Monaco Economic Board and the Direction du Développement Economique, which was a resounding success. The presentation by Jean-Pierre Santos, Head of Division at the Monegasque Industrial Property Office, also provided an opportunity to discover the growing dynamism of this office, as well as the support offered by its incubators to promising […]

Artificial intelligences need training to create articles, images, sounds, etc., so they happily dip into existing resources – the work of journalists and artists – without their prior consent, thus blithely plundering their copyrights and financial rights. Some authors are pressing charges: In 2023, the American daily The New York Times and the Authors Guild (over 14,000 American authors and writers) against Open AI (developer of the AI ChatGPT), or three artists Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKernan and Karla Ortiz against Stable Diffusion, Midjourney and DeviantArt. And in early 2024, Midjourney was again targeted after the names of 16,000 artists it […]

#WorldIPDay In 2000, to promote a better understanding of intellectual property, WIPO member states decided that April 26, the date on which the Convention establishing WIPO came into force in 1970, should become World Intellectual Property Day. Since then, World Intellectual Property Day has provided an annual opportunity to highlight the importance of creativity and innovation worldwide. It is also an opportunity to highlight the role played by intellectual property rights in promoting these innovations, whether through patents, trademarks, designs or copyright. This year, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is organizing an innovative video competition aimed at young people, […]

When it comes to errors made by artificial intelligence tools, it’s common to speak of “hallucinations“, a curious term if ever there was one, as if it were almost unrealistic for AI to make mistakes. How, then, to describe OpenAI and Microsoft’s takeover of several million articles from the respected New York Times newspaper? The complaint filed with the U.S. District Court in Manhattan refers to the damage caused by the artificial intelligence’s “hallucinations”, and calls for compensation in view of the serious damage caused to the reputation of the famous newspaper. Indeed, during this rework, which enables the development […]