Tag: Dina Biagio

Open source software has transformed the way we develop and use technology, facilitating a collaborative approach that allows developers to access, modify and distribute code, often without any obligation to pay licence fees to an upstream licensor.

The issue of ownership of intellectual property created by artificial intelligence (AI) is provoking heated discussions as the new chatbot “ChatGPT” takes the world by storm. It has raised questions about copyright in the work generated, ownership of copyright, and even possible plagiarism of works by AI.

Read our exclusive cover story titled ChatGPT - who owns the IP? by Lodewyk Cilliers and Dina Biagio, Partners at Spoor & Fisher, and ChatGPT, Language Model Computer Program, OpenAI, plus a host of other topical management articles written by professionals, consultants and academics in the February/March 2023 edition.

In the last decade or two, there have been significant advances in cloud computing, the provision of software-implemented services (Software-as-a-Service or SaaS) and web-based applications. These offerings rely on software that runs on a remote server and are accessed by users from their own computer, via a network connection (rather than being locally installed on the internal memory of a user’s computer).