ISHTIP’s seminar series brings together scholars from around the world to explore how intellectual property regimes have evolved and how they continue to shape, and be shaped by, social, political, and technological forces. In keeping with ISHTIP’s interdisciplinary ethos, the series invites contributions from law, history, philosophy, sociology, literary theory, political economy, anthropology, and other related disciplines in the humanities and qualitative social sciences. For questions about the seminars, please contact Carol Ballard at: carol.ballard@uq.edu.au.
For the complete collection of past seminars and their recordings, see here.
The Legal Aesthetics of Copyright, How AI Unmakes Images
Séverine Dusollier and Nicolas Malevé
Date: Monday 18 May 2026 | Time: 4.00pm (Paris – CEST) / Time in your location | Venue: Zoom
This talk is a dialogue between two strands of thinking, photography and legal theory, to try and make sense of the current configuration of technology, law and aesthetics that sustain and contest AI image generation.
Séverine Dusollier is Professor of Intellectual Property at Sciences Po Paris and holds a Senior Chair at the Institut Universitaire de France. Nicolas Malevé is a visual artist and computer programmer and a post-doctoral researcher at Sciences Po, Media Lab.
For more details see here.