Professor Victoria Schwartz Presents "AI Influencers and Revisiting the Right of Publicity" at M3 Intellectual Property Scholars Workshop and Privacy Law Scholars Conference

Professor Victoria L. Schwartz presented her draft paper, "AI Influencers and Revisiting the Right of Publicity," at the M3 Intellectual Property Scholars Workshop on May 19, and at the Privacy Law Scholars Conference on May 30. 

The M3 Intellectual Property Scholars Workshop was hosted by the Chicago-Kent School of Law. The M3 stands for mid-career or “mezzanine” scholars, middle of the academic year, and mid-point drafts. The workshop is open to any intellectual property scholar who has held a full-time academic position for 8 to 15 years.  Each participant in the M3 IP Workshop submits a project on a topic pertaining to an aspect of intellectual property. The authors do not present their projects. Instead, all 10 participants collectively provide feedback based on the abstract or paper draft, with some verbal instruction from the author about what types of feedback they would value most.

The Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC) was hosted by UCLA School of Law. The PLSC is the world’s premier academic conference of privacy, law, and technology scholars, researchers, and practitioners. The PLSC promotes scholarship in privacy by providing workshop sessions and academic dialogue open to scholars in all disciplines from around the world.  At PLSC’s core is work related to privacy law, including in the humanities and social sciences, computer and data science, and other fields.  Scholars submit paper abstracts in a blind review, and the program committee selects which abstracts to include in the conference. Scholars then submit entire drafts of the paper for discussion. The author does not present the paper.  Instead a discussant presents the paper, and the audience provides extensive feedback and discussion in dialogue with the author. Professor Schwartz's draft paper "AI Influencers and Revisiting the Right of Publicity" was selected this year in the blind submission process for inclusion in the prestigious privacy conference.  The commentator for her paper was Melodi Dincer. 

Based on her expertise in workplace privacy, Professor Schwartz also was asked to be the commentator for a paper by UC Law San Francisco associate professor Seema Patel titled "The Law of Worker Data Privacy Harms," which Professor Schwartz participated in at a different PLSC session.