Advocates Urge Law Journal to Disclose Microsoft, Google Ties

A top intellectual property law journal is set to publish a landmark article about the intersection between copyright law and artificial intelligence. A group of advocates say the journal has not done enough to disclose the authors’ ties to the biggest tech companies.

A trio of digital rights groups are urging the Journal of the Copyright Society to clarify that the authors of the forthcoming article, which is still in its draft form, have previously worked for two of the biggest AI tech companies – Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google.

“We emphatically believe that it is critical for ...