WIPO Conversation on Intellectual Property and Frontier Technologies

What is the WIPO Conversation?

The WIPO Conversation is an open, inclusive, multi-stakeholder forum intended to provide stakeholders with a leading, global setting to discuss the impact of frontier technologies on all IP rights and to bridge the existing information gap in this fast moving and complex field.

The sessions of the Conversation have a truly global reach. Over the last 5 years, almost 12’000 people have participated in the WIPO Conversation, from 172 countries, including Member States, academia, IP professionals and enterprises.

Eleventh session of the WIPO Conversation

The rise of generative AI models trained on copyrighted works has sparked significant concerns about the rights of creators. As these technologies continue to advance, they have the potential to dramatically disrupt traditional creative industries.

A comprehensive and cohesive copyright infrastructure, a set of organizational structures and technical means that support the implementation of copyright law, is therefore essential to ensure fair protection for creators while allowing for technological innovation to flourish.

While many copyright infrastructure mechanisms arise, these solutions often fail to address the broader challenges of interoperability across diverse legal systems and industries. Without a unified approach, creators’ rights can be inconsistently protected depending on where and how the content is being used leading to high transaction costs and lost revenues.

Copyright infrastructure will have a profound effect on whether the IP system can recognize and support human creativity while acknowledging the transformative potential of AI so that AI empowers creators and contributes to the overall long-term sustainability of the creative ecosystem.

The Eleventh session of the WIPO conversation will take place on April 23 and 24, 2025.

It will address the challenges AI poses to traditional copyright infrastructure, including issues of rights management, attribution, and compensation, and consider the potential for regulatory frameworks and new infrastructure to support fair protection for creators while fostering technological innovation. This session builds on previous WIPO Conversations on generative AI and IP, training data, and AI outputs.

Tenth session of the WIPO Conversation on "Generative AI-IP and Outputs"

The tenth session of the WIPO Conversation “Generative AI: IP and Output” offered a platform for stakeholders to explore the questions whether AI-generated content should be eligible for copyright protection and existing and emerging regulatory frameworks.

WIPO Conversation 11 – AI and IP: Infrastructure for rights holders and innovation

April 23 and 24, 2025

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Previous sessions of the WIPO Conversation

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Artificial Intelligence and IP

The tenth and ninth sessions covered the question of Gen-AI inputs and outputs, exploring the connection with IP.

The eighth session covered impact of GenAI on creation of music, images, and other forms of content and a multitude of IP questions related to it.

The sixth session focused on AI inventions and how IP Offices worldwide are supporting AI.

The first three sessions of the WIPO Conversation looked at AI and IP policy and discussed general questions.

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Intellectual Property and the Metaverse

The seventh session looked at the wide spectrum of frontier technologies enabling the metaverse, such as AI, blockchain and the NFTs, emerging AR and VR technologies, the Internet of Things and data processing and discussed the challenges the metaverse poses to the existing IP system.

New Technologies for Intellectual Property Administration

The fifth session looked at the new technologies and assessed their possible uses in IP administration and registration as well as the disruption they may cause to the IP system. It encouraged information sharing across all stakeholders from IPOs to private enterprises and sharing diverse views from IP professionals, innovators, creators and individuals.

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Data and IP

The fourth session discussed some of the background to the current data debates including what data is and why this intangible asset increasingly matters and is changing how we do business, innovate and create.