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Law Offices of Kate Downing
The Law Offices of Kate Downing provide a variety of legal services to technology companies, depending on their needs and stage of growth. For smaller companies, we often serve as an outside general counsel, whereas for larger companies we tend to focus on AI licensing, open source-related matters,
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2025 3
2024 5
- PLI CLE: Open Source and Machine Learning – Practical Licensing Issues
- Keynote at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
- PLI’s Artificial Intelligence Law Program 2024
- Choose Your Own Adventure: The EU AI Act and Openish AI
- The New York Times Launches a Very Strong Case Against Microsoft and OpenAI
2023 11
- Yes, GitHub Finally Offered to Indemnify for Copilot Suggestions, But…
- Co-Chairing PLI’s Annual “Open Source Software – From Compliance to Cooperation” Program + Slides to New Presentation “Licensing ‘Open’ AI Models”
- An IP Attorney’s Reading of the LLaMA and ChatGPT Class Action Lawsuits
- Evaluating Generative AI Licensing Terms
- AI Licensing Can’t Balance “Open” with “Responsible”
- Copilot and Snippet Scanning
- Battle of the AI Analogies
- Did GitHub Really Just Offer to Indemnify You for Copilot’s Suggestions?
- OpenAI’s Massive Data Grab
- US Copyright Office Rejects Notion that Midjourney Output Can Be Copyrighted
- An IP Attorney’s Reading of the Stable Diffusion Class Action Lawsuit
2022 3
2021 3
2020 1
2019 6
- The Great Open Source Shake-up
- Part 2: The GPL Cooperation Commitment – Coincidentally, Great for Lawyers
- Part 1: The Dark Practice of Free & Open Source Software Law
- CommunityBridge: Probably Not What You Were Hoping For
- Should I Use a Developer’s Certificate of Origin or a Contributor Agreement?
- Creating a Comprehensive 3rd-Party Package Licensing Policy