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  1. Washington Post

    A Terrible Decision on AI-Made Images Hurts Creators, Writes Chicago-Kent Law Professor Edward Lee

    The Copyright Office’s position that AI-generated content is excluded from copyright protection is wrong, writes Edward Lee, professor a Chicago-Kent College of Law and the author of “Creators Take Control: How NFTs Revolutionize Art, Business, and Entertainment.” It misunderstands authorship and ignores the copyright clause’s goal of promoting “progress” by offering authors incentives to create new works, including with new technologies.

  2. Chicago Sun-Times

    How William Wrigley Jr. Brought Soap, Gum and Chicago Baseball Broadcasting Together

    Eldon Ham, an adjunct faculty member a Chicago-Kent College of Law who teaches about sports, law and justice, writes about how William Wrigley Jr. was instrumental in the beginning of baseball broadcasting.

  3. Chicago Tribune

    NFTs Are the Greatest Disruption to the Art World Since Cubism, Writes Law Professor Edward Lee

    Today, we are witnessing the greatest disruption to the art world since cubism — along with a similar backlash. Underlying this disruption is a technology called a non-fungible token, or NFT, a computer program that establishes a new type of virtual ownership not just for digital artworks but also for anything that can be owned.

  4. WGN-TV

    Chicago-Kent Law Professor Analyzes Trump Indictment

    The charge against former President Donald Trump “arises under New York law and it focuses on the falsification of a business record,” said Chicago-Kent Professor Harold Krent. “That’s a misdemeanor under New York state law, but it can be elevated to a felony if it’s found to be in connection with another criminal purpose, such as falsification of election filings, which might in fact be what’s at stake here.”

  5. ABA Journal

    In Research Done by Law Professor Daniel Martin Katz, Latest Version of ChatGPT Nails Bar Exam with Score Nearing 90th Percentile

    GPT-4 took all sections of the July 2022 bar exam and earned a score so high that it approaches the 90th percentile of test-takers, according to researchers Daniel Martin Katz, a professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology’s Chicago-Kent College of Law, and Michael James Bommarito, a professor at the Michigan State University College of Law. “Our analysis highlights that GPT-4 has indeed passed the bar and has done so by a significant margin,” they wrote in a paper.

  6. Chicago Daily Law Bulletin

    Seattle at Forefront in Adding 'Caste' as a Protected Class, Writes Chicago-Kent Adjunct Professor

    Adjunct Professor Christopher Garcia writes in an article that Seattle recently became the first U.S. city to add “caste” to its list of categories protected from discrimination.

  7. Reuters

    Bar Exam Score Shows AI Can Keep Up with 'Human Lawyers,' Says Chicago-Kent Professor

    “I heard so many people say, ‘Well, it might get the multiple choice but it will never get the essays,’” Chicago-Kent College of Law Katz said of his efforts giving GPT the bar exam. GPT-4 passed the Uniform Bar Exam, including the essay and performance test.

  8. Bloomberg Law

    Professor Edward Lee Cited in Story About 'Banned Words' in Federal Court

    “The term ‘patent troll’ may operate as a moral panic in a way that is detrimental to reasoned analysis and consideration of the root problems related to the issue of abusive patent litigation tactics,” Lee wrote in a law review article. Given the nature of the term and the negative way it has been used in news articles, he concluded that it would be prejudicial in the context of a patent trial.

  9. FactCheck.org

    Chicago-Kent Professor Harold Krent Debunks SAFE-T Act Myths

    Under the SAFE-T Act, people charged with serious crimes such as second-degree murder and kidnapping “can be detained based on a finding of potential dangerousness,” said Harold Krent, professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law. “To detain, there must be particular facts demonstrating serious risk. Or the individual can be detained because of a risk of flight.”

  10. WalletHub

    Professor Emeritus Henry H. Perritt Analyzes Changes in Labor Force

    “Savings accumulated during the COVID lockdown, combined with high COVID-impact payments, made it possible for a substantial part of the workforce, at all income levels, to drop out and maintain lifestyles,” said Henry H. Perritt, professor emeritus at the Chicago-Kent College of Law. “The booming economy after the COVID lockdown encouraged workers to think they could demand higher rates of pay if they quit and sought other jobs.”