Professor Shubha Ghosh, Director of the Syracuse Intellectual Property and Law Institute, has contributed the article “Ain’t It Just Software?” to the recently released Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Artificial Intelligence. The book, from Edward Elgar Publishing, is edited by Ryan Abbott, Professor of Law and Health Sciences, School of Law, University of Surrey, UK, and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles.
The chapter offers an innovative look at how AI issues in copyright build on longstanding debates in software copyright. Examining Justice Breyer’s opinion in Oracle v Google, Professor Ghosh develops ideas that are further extended in his forthcoming article on AI and patent law.