Pryor Cashman partner William Charron, co-chair of the Art Law practice, was interviewed by Tim Schneider from Artnet i, “Don’t believe the ‘resistance-is-futile’ hype when it comes to AI and art.”
Bill, who made headlines this month working to have a lawsuit dismissed against his clients Sotheby’s and Kevin McCoy (generally seen as the co-inventor of NFT) by an anonymous plaintiff, believed the current legal system was alive and well. As he noted:
One of the advantages of the Quantum case is that “code is not law” – law is law. Basic principles of law should not be changed because of a particular code that applies to…I do not agree that the law will never be able to catch up with our changing technology. I think the law will always be two steps ahead of technology. People just need to respect its presence and apply it to the technology under consideration.
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