Creative Chaos:
Re-evaluating Copyright as Market Policy for the Creative Industries in the Age of AI
Hector Postigo
Date: Thursday, March 6, 2025
Time: 3:00 - 4:30 PM
Location: Edna Anderson-Taylor Communication Institute, LNCO 2910
About the Talk:
The rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has revolutionized creative production, challenging traditional copyright frameworks designed for human-centered creativity. This talk examines how adopting less restrictive copyright policies could foster innovation and economic growth in creative industries, using game theory concepts like Nash Equilibrium to demonstrate how current hyperprotective regimes encourage content hoarding rather than beneficial cooperation. Through analysis of recent case law and successful IP-sharing models, the presentation explores market-based solutions such as compulsory licensing agreements and open-access frameworks, arguing that the future of creative industries lies in embracing a dynamic, cooperative approach to intellectual property rather than enforcing artificial scarcity in the AI era.
about the speaker
Hector Postigo
Hector Postigo's (Temple University) research focuses on new digital media and cultural production both large and small. His work has centered on two areas of inquiry in cultural production. The first interrogates notions of value, participation and “free” labor on the internet. For example, Postigo was one of the first researchers to study video game fan communities that make valuable modifications to popular PC games (modders) and has written on the history of AOL volunteer communities and their labor disputes. His second line of research focuses on technologically mediated activism. He interrogates this topic by asking how technological resistance structures activism in social movements. Postigo is concerned with how ICTs, hacks, workarounds and other circumvention and organization measures might impact the role of individuals and organizations bent on social change. His contributions in that vein have centered on the digital rights or free culture movement and their use of technological measures as a form of activism. His book on that topic was published by MIT Press.
