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Session 1: Reimagining Copyright in the Generative AI Era
Get PDFIn Session One of the SITIE 2024 Symposium titled “Reimagining Copyright in the Generative AI era,” moderated by TILE Co-Director and Professor Margaret Chon, a panel of esteemed presenters discussed different means to view and interpret copyright in the era of GenAI. Professor Juan Carlos Reyes showcased how his students used collaborative projects with AI to craft unique literary works, drawing parallels between personal experiences and AI interactions. Professor Edward Lee explored the meaning of “Authors” in the Progress Clause and the U.S. Copyright Office’s reliance on the so-called “traditional elements of authorship,” a term that no federal court has ever used to determine authorship. And lastly, Professor Matthew Sag addressed whether AI outputs can meet the stringent requirements of human authorship as defined by U.S. copyright law, given the potential of AI as a tool for creative expression
The Environmental Rule of Law\u27s Transformative Power
Get PDFThe Environmental Rule of Law is proposed as an ecocentric, transformative, and dynamic model. As a principle of governance, it implies values and standards that give rise to a new paradigm based on sustainable development, climate stability, and the circular economy, specifically focused on fundamental rights and obligations. Key factors of the Rule of Law revolution are the collective character of the environment, diffuse rights, the recognition of future generations and nature as legal subjects, and various principles with a strong protective purpose. The growing integration between human rights and the environment is another feature of the process, to be further discussed in regard to the Escazú Agreement, a groundbreaking instrument that enshrines access rights and stipulates safeguard mechanisms for environmental defenders. The Environmental Rule of Law constitutes a powerful framework with a marked vocation for change, aimed at achieving the enforcement of effective laws, the strengthening of institutions, and broader access to information, participation, and justice
Student Life E-Newsletter November 12, 2024
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Real-World Consequences for Online Actions: The Case for Expanding Employee Harassment Protection via Employers’ Rights of Action
Get PDFThis Note argues for expanding employers’ access to legal remedies that allow them to recoup the costs of protecting their employees from swatting, doxing, and other online harassment arising from their employees’ professional activity. Part I provides a brief description and history of the online harassment problem and its potentially deadly dangers. Part II describes employers’ legal responsibility to take action to protect their employees from harassment aimed at their employees within the scope of their employment. Part III explores common legal remedies that are currently available to employers, using the state of Washington as an example. Part III also evaluates the various costs and shortcomings of those remedies.
Finally, Part IV analyzes a recent development in this area of tort law in the state of Washington that expands Washington employers’ right to recoup the costs of protecting their employees from online harassment. Part IV also addresses how state legislatures can enable courts to fashion similar equitable remedies, as well as how legislatures can independently expand employers’ ability to protect their employees and help employees recover their damages from harassment in rapidly evolving online spaces
Foreseeability and Duty in Washington Negligence Law: Leaving the Road Less Traveled By
Get PDFWashington negligence law is a confusing labyrinth of foreseeability that not even Ariadne’s string could guide plaintiffs out of. Foreseeability is implicated in four distinct analyses, several of which overlap considerably. Doctrines that were once questions of law are now questions of fact, and vice versa. Something needs to change.
Washington has taken the novel approach of bifurcating the duty element into two parts—duty’s mere existence, which is a question of law for the court to determine; and duty’s scope, which is a question of fact handed off to the jury to determine. Foreseeability impacts both of these assessments, but to what extent remains a difficult question, despite numerous court clarifications over the years. Though seemingly simple on its face, contexts such as third-party and special-relationship liabilities complicate things. Exactly what level of foreseeability a plaintiff must allege remains largely an educated guess, and the law as it stands gives trial judges broad discretion to dismiss actions that seem outlandish, regardless of other considerations historically considered in negligence cases. If foreseeability were taken out of the duty inquiry and its existence and scope once more reunited, Washington could follow the growing number of jurisdictions adopting the Restatement (Third) of Torts approach. These steps would greatly clarify negligence in Washington and make the duty inquiry much more straightforward and predictable, allowing foreseeability to shine in considerations of breach and causation, where contemporary tort scholars suggest it belongs
Margarette May Macaulay
No full textMargarette May Macaulay is one of Jamaica’s most experienced advocates and jurists, as well as a leading human rights advocate. She has long lobbied for and assisted in the reform of the existing laws of Jamaica through the repeal of archaic provisions and for the enactment of new legislation to ensure the protection of the human rights of all persons in Jamaica.
Macaulay was in 2006 elected to serve as a judge of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights from 2007 to 2012. She served with distinction, sometimes heading the court’s delegation to have discussions with other such organizations. She worked diligently, participated in the hearing of every case, applications for provisional measures, and in the preparation of all judgments and decisions. Macaulay acted as rapporteur judge in certain cases and also in the hearings for monitoring of the compliance or non-compliance by State Parties with the judgments and/or provisional measures. She also contributed to the formulation of the amended Court Rules in 2010.
She was in 2015 elected as a commissioner of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights by the Organization of American States (OAS) General Assembly. In January 2016, Macaulay was elected and served as the second vice president, in 2017 as first vice president, and in 2018 as president. She served as the rapporteur of women’s rights, as the rapporteur for the rights of Afro-Descendants and against racism, and as the rapporteur for the rights of migrants. She worked diligently and passionately to increase the involvement of the Caribbean state parties in the commission’s work as best as their small staff permitted, as well as for changes within the commission to ensure more diversity through inclusion of Indigenous and Afro-Descendant persons in the staff complement.
Macaulay was in in 2018 re-elected by the OAS General Assembly to a second term as commissioner. She continued her work as commissioner and in her rapporteurships, save that she switched women’s rights for the rights of older persons, which she continued through 2023. She was elected and served as the second vice president in 2022 and as president in 2023.
In December 2017, Macaulay was selected as an honoured member of the Gender Justice Legacy Group of notable women rights advocates who have worked and effected important changes. She was also acknowledged for her work on the elaboration of the Rules of Procedure and the Elements of Crimes for the International Criminal Court (ICC) during the Preparatory Sessions at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
In the course of her work for the rights of women and children, as a volunteer, she headed for more than six years the National Women’s Rights and the National Children’s Rights Organizations in Jamaica, as well as the Caribbean Organization on Women’s Rights, Research and Action, which served all four languages of the sub-region.
Macaulay has served the longest of everyone in the Americas in the two juridical organs of the OAS. Human Rights is her passion.https://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/luminaries/1005/thumbnail.jp
2024 May Commencement
No full textSeattle University School of Law\u27s 2024 Commencement Ceremony was held in McCaw Hall on May 18, 2024.https://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/commencement-videos/1002/thumbnail.jp
