Learnings and Ethical Considerations: A Resource for Arts Funders on Artificial Intelligence
Learnings and Ethical Considerations: A Resource for Arts Funders on Artificial Intelligence
A helpful resource for funders interested in moving ethically in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) space
As Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) transforms various sectors, it is crucial to evaluate both the pros and cons of AI-integrated projects. As arts’ funders, it is our duty to safeguard human creativity, ownership rights, and data privacy for creators and cultural communities in grantmaking processes.
Research to Impact Lab staff designed a workshop for the 2024 Grantmakers in the Arts' Support for Individual Artists Preconference: The Future is AI? Equipping Artists for the Digital Renaissance.
The R2I Lab’s workshop, Fast Technology, Slow Regulations: Intellectual Property and Artificial Intelligence, featured a discussion on current AI regulations as well as the ethical and social implications amid rapid technology adoption and limited data protection measures.
The workshop featured tangible and immediate protections that funders can support to address artists' intellectual property concerns and offered strategic possibilities for funders interested in supporting more structural changes impacting individual artists and vulnerable communities.
The workshop finished with a hands-on activity where funders could practice intentional discovery and due diligence on a project involving AI technology.
This resource expands on the workshop content, providing a comprehensive list of due diligence questions and implementation strategies for arts funders evaluating AI-integrated project proposals.
Navigating the Copyright Claims Board: A Practical Guide for Creators
Navigating the Copyright Claims Board: A Practical Guide for Creators
A guide for creatives to better understand the Copyright Claims Board (CCB). This resource was created through a partnership between The Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI) and Stanford University's Juelsgaard Intellectual Property and Innovation Clinic (JIPIC)
Thank you so much for sharing your story! We will use these examples to shape our advocacy, research, and resources on this topic, and may reach out to you for more information, or to let you know about opportunities to advance social and economic protections for all.
Navigating the Copyright Claims Board: A Practical Guide for Creators would not have been possible without the support of the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation
Non-Fungible Tokens and Intellectual Property: A Report to Congress
Non-Fungible Tokens and Intellectual Property
A Report to Congress
The United States Patent and Trademark Office and United States Copyright Office
United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is the federal agency for granting U.S. patents and registering trademarks. The U.S. Copyright Office promotes creativity and free expression by administering the nation’s copyright laws and by providing impartial, expert advice on copyright law and policy for the benefit of all.
NFTs provide both opportunities and challenges for creators. Learn more about both in this new report to Congress.
A Report to Congress prepared by the United States Patent and Trademark Office and United States Copyright Office about how intellectual property laws apply to NFTs and specific intellectual property-related challenges arising from the use of NFTs. Public comment gathered and prepared by CCI’s Advocacy program is cited (previously, Sol Center for Liberated Work).
Gig Worker Learning Project: Phase Two Report
Gig Worker Learning Project: Phase Two Report
"Just Make It Better." What Gig Workers Have to Say About Gig Work
The Gig Worker Learning Project is a valuable resource for anyone seeking to better understand gig workers and the challenges they face.
Supported by CCI, led by The Workers Lab, and developed in collaboration with the Aspen Institute Future of Work Initiative, “Just Make It Better. What Gig Workers Have to Say About Gig Work” is a unique new piece of research on “gig” work, co-authored by active gig workers as participant-researchers. The goal of this project is to better understand gig work and workers directly from gig workers themselves, regarding their motivations, challenges, and solutions that would impact their lives personally and professionally.
NFTs, Smart Contracts, & DAOs
NFTs, Smart Contracts, & DAOs
A Resource for Creatives
A report to help creatives capture the opportunities of blockchain technologies, while protecting themselves from legal risk
When we started seeing many BIPOC artists moving into the blockchain space several years ago, we started building our own expertise in this area.
That’s why we commissioned Alex Glancy at Gundzik Gundzik Heeger LLP to author this report exploring the legal challenges artists face on the blockchain.
To support creatives as they engage with this new technology, this report seeks to provide information in the legal areas of copyright, business entities, securities, contracts, and trademark, as applied to these emerging tools.
Ultimately, we hope this report serves as a resource to help creatives capture the opportunities of blockchain technologies, while protecting themselves from the risks.
Gig Worker Learning Project: Phase One Report
Gig Worker Learning Project
Phase one progress report
The Gig Worker Learning Project is a valuable resource for anyone seeking to better understand gig workers and the challenges they face.
For several years now, the conversation about gig work and the future of work has been hampered by the lack of good data. That’s why we’re thrilled that Sol Center’s first grant supports the Gig Worker Learning Project, a participatory research project by The Workers Lab and the Aspen Institute Future of Work Initiative, seeking to understand gig workers’ needs and the solutions that will impact them most.
The first phase of the project, which took place over 2022, included early stakeholder outreach and a landscape scan of existing gig workers research. The Gig Worker Learning Project published its findings from that analysis in February 2023, and considers several questions, such as:
- What is the “Gig Economy”?
- What are gig workers doing to make money?
- Who are gig workers?
- How do digital platforms affect the experiences of gig workers?
- How are gig workers using their incomes?
- What kinds of benefits and protections exist for gig workers?
This is a valuable resource for anyone seeking to better understand gig workers and the challenges they face, and definitely worth a read!