Oliver Scherenberg

Lethe GmbH

CFO and Chief Legal and Compliance Officer

VON HAVE FEY Rechtsanwälte

Of Counsel (attorney in a passive role)

SCHERENBERG LEGAL & LICENSING

German law firm with a focus on the monetization of intellectual property rights, web3 and generative AI.

Founder and IP Licensing Counsel

WEB3LEX

Award-winning international online knowledge base for web3 and AI legal and tax topics and home of the international #lawyers4web3 network. 

Browse our knowledge base with an AI assistant for the legal answers you are looking for in the areas of web3 and AI (currently testing, published soon).

WEB3LEX is a virtual law firm, which puts you in touch with web3 legal and tax experts from over 60 jurisdictions. Book your meeting through the platform and pre-pay with credit card or PayPal (currently running a pilot on this feature). 

Want to have an immersive meeting with your WEB3LEX lawyer? No problem, come visit our Virtual Office with your fancy avatar.

- Winner of 1 golden and 3 bronze nails at the 2023 creative festival of Art Directors Club.
- Winner of 4 Red Dot Awards (among one "Best of the Best") 2023.
- Short-listed for European Metaverse Awards 2023.

Founder

DRYMSTRYM TV GmbH

Multi-Channel-Network with a German broadcasting license. Are you running a live streaming or SmartTV channel and require a license? We can legalize your channel by granting you a sub-license (approved by the media regulators).

Co-Founder and Managing Director

The Orthocorp Ltd.

web3 voxel game and Metaverse. An innovative experiment on the Ethereum Blockchain. Doomed, but what isn't?

Orthosigliere (The Legal Guy)

Sisvel Group

General Counsel Legal and Business

Preu Bohlig & Partner

Partner

Unverzagt von Have

Associate Partner

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Associate

Licensing, web3 and Media Law.

Picture courtesy of Rainer Hosch (www.rainerhosch.com), 2022.

Titanic II in the making – for younger viewers.


If the ship were to sink today, this might be the final scene of the movie.

Considering today's social media habits, the sad truth is: this probably wouldn’t even be unrealistic.

And yes, I know: the ship didn’t actually sink stern-first but went down in a bow-first nosedive.

Maybe AI knows something we don’t!?

Folks, we might be onto something here...

#conspiracy #bestselfie #titanic2 #howhavewegottenhere

German Court: AI trainig can be considered copyright infringement

The Munich Regional Court delivered an interesting decision today.

GEMA, the collective society for music rights holders, sued #OpenAI over lyrics used to train and reproduced by ChatGPT.

And GEMA fully won. Here are the key points of the judgement:

1️⃣ OUTPUT infringement:
ChatGPT reproduced lyrics of several songs verbatim. The court saw that as a copyright violation.
👉 No surprise here. If the output looks like the original work, that’s an infringement.

2️⃣ INPUT (= training data) infringement:
Because the lyrics appeared word-for-word, the court concluded they must have been part of the training data. That means, there must be a “copy” of the work in the training data.
👉 I believe this is technically wrong. AI models do not store original data. They learn patterns. This point may not survive appeal.

3️⃣ No text and data mining (TDM) privilege:
Since the court found that data was stored, they come to the conclusion that this does not fall under the TDM privilege.
👉 I am afraid this is also incorrect, since no data is stored in AI models to begin with.

4️⃣ Liability:
OpenAI, not individual users, was found responsible for near-verbatim reproductions.
👉 That makes sense under the Court's logic. But it does not stop there. Make no mistake: users are not automatically off the hook. Just like in pre-AI times: If you publish infringing material, you are still responsible, regardless of the source.

GEMA is the clear winner of round one. Now both sides head back to their corners. OpenAI will spit out some blood, and get ready for round two. This ain't over yet.

Ding ding!🥊

See addtional posts and many more details and perspectives regaring this case by my esteemed colleagues Dr. Ralph Oliver Graef, LL.M. (NYU), Dr. Barry Scannell, Max-Julian Wiedemann, LL.M., Edward Lee and many others.

Preparing early for the upcoming corporate Christmas party this year. 



P.S.: I made this picture last year already with the then most recent Midjourney AI diffusion model. 

P.P.S.: I seriously consider getting this made by some talented knitting expert on Etsy or the like. Recommendations anyone?

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This morning we have obtained a landmark court decison regarding the use of copyright protected works for the training and operation of AI models under EU law. 🏆

In its ruling in GEMA vs. OpenAI the Munich Regional Court found that OpenAI should have asked for permission before feeding our members’ song lyrics into ChatGPT. 

According to the court AI training with copyrighted works and the memorization of such works in the model without prior authorisation constitutes a violation of copyright rules  - and triggers AI companies’ liability. 

This is a huge success for all whose creative output has been used to build and train an AI model. Creators’ rights are not up for grabs. 

We will continue our mission to defend our members’ rights! Next stop: GEMA vs. SunoAI in January.  
#fairness #AI #copyright

CHEQs

I'm helping Richard Piacentini build and test a platform to allow people to transfer crypto and stablecoins in a reliable and a secure manner. CHEQs provides a system that removes the feeling of dread you have when you hit the  "confirm" on a large (or even small) blockchain transaction.

Founder and test engineer

Resonance Security

Acting as a writer-in-residence, I talk to the Resonance technical staff and partners on a regular basis, and then produce articles explaining or examining issues in the blockchain and security space.

Advisor

Chainfrog

This is my first company: a Finnish blockchain research and development outfit focused on inventing blockchain technologies and developing intellectual property. We currently hold 13 patents for innovations all built around blockchain and one for magnetic locationing (that are for sale).

CEO and Founder

Working on possible the most interesting and least lucrative NFT/metaverse project in the blockchain space, and hoping to accidentally reverse the latter while keeping the former.

Metaverse Wizard

Helsinki Blockchain Center

The Helsinki Blockchain Center aims to educate and inform the Finnish blockchain technology scene, and foster collaboration between private and public sector organizations. As a board member my duties include assessing the technical merit of proposed blockchain projects, and continue promoting and explaining blockchain to the world. They also make me take board meeting minutes from time to time.

Board Member

PMCC Ltd - Crypto Club-LDN

Developed a bespoke gas-reduced ERC1155 token for a London private members club focused on crypto and defi.

Solidity Developer

ARGANS

ARGANS is a scientific research company in the Earth Observation sector. I am working with ARGANS as a consultant on a European Space Agency-funded project titled "Building trust in the digital economy", and provide other blockchain-related advice and training as needed.

Blockchain Consultant

NFT Alley

I provided weekly analysis and advice to the NFT Alley project, in the areas of technical approaches and business development.

Blockchain Advisor

The Advertising Currency

TAC was a blockchain project that, unfortunately, turned out to be a bust, with the founder leaving to produce NFT artwork instead. I did successfully debug their badly implemented consensus protocol, ported the browser extension wallet, and produced an install script for the project. And I learned the hard way that enthusiam isn't enough to make a project succeed.

Node Operator  and Volunteer Developer

Exafore

Exafore develops indoor/outdoor positioning systems using ultra-wide band radio technology, providing location accuracy in the centimetre scale. I provide consultancy and programming services to enable regression testing of the hardware and server software using the Python Robot Framework test system.

Test Automation Consultant

I walk through the woods thinking about blockchain

I like to understand and contemplate difficult technical concepts to the point that I can explain them to non-technical people. My focus for the last twelve years has been blockchain, although I know a bit about GNSS, databases, security and cryptography, and test automation.

I also like working out where technology fits into the business world, and how it can impact us in a psychological, sociological, and even philosophical sense.

I wish people would stop asking me to "also develop a website for the project, if you can."

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