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In this workshop, San Francisco arts lawyer Chuck Cordes will look at how AI image-generating programs are creating some brand-new issues for illustrators and other visual artists that copyright law wasn't 100 percent intended to deal with. We'll talk about government efforts to regulate AI; lawsuits aimed at AI giants like Open AI, Microsoft, and Stability AI; and look at how courts are treating claims of mass copyright infringement of artists' works. And we'll touch on other theories that plaintiff-artists are relying on, like right of publicity and unfair competition. We'll explore the copyright status of AI-generated art and what that means for makers and users of AI generated images. Audience questions are invited and it is hoped this will be equal parts lecture and dialog. This is a quickly evolving area. If other important matters relating to artists' rights and AI arise, we'll look at those, too.