Meshup #18 – Siri-Helen Egeland
Siri-Helen Egeland will present on the topic of Copyright, street art and AI.
Abstract
Street artists are on the forefront of both the use and the consequences of text-to image generators. The artform is easily accessible in the street, and due to this, vast amounts of images where murals, pieces and tags are depicted, are also easily accessible online, exposing the art to web scraping for use as AI training data. In this presentation Siri Egeland will discuss the relationship between street art and artificial intelligence in a copyright perspective. To highlight some of the challenges and opportunities artists face within this relationship, Egeland will also present an upcoming bookchapter where she alongside Professor Enrico Bonadio at City St.George’s University of London, has interviewed 10 street artists on their views on AI.
Bio
Siri-Helen Egeland is an assistant professor at the Department of Law at the School of Business and Law, University of Agder. She holds a master’s degree in law from the University of Bergen. Egeland`s work background is mainly as a lawyer in the private sector, where her practice has had a focus on contract law and litigation. She teaches IP-law at the University of Agder and is working on a PhD with the preliminary title: “Issues on copyright and moral rights in the intersection between visual arts and frontier technology”. The PhD-project is partly funded by Kunstsilo and The Sørlandet Knowledge Foundation (SKF). Egeland is collaborating with street art festival Kunsten å leve (The art of living) in Kristiansand, Norway, and hosts the academic program under this annual festival.
Access
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