Copyright As Data: What can we learn from other legal transformations

6PM THURSDAY 6 AUGUST 2026

Together with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S), the Copyright Society of Australia is excited to welcome Professor Xiyin Tang (University of California, Los Angeles) to Australia.

The training of large language models has highlighted the extent to which questions of copyright and privacy now overlap in the context of large-scale data use. Large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, and increasingly sophisticated AI agents ingest an unprecedented about of training data, testing the limits of copyright law and practice. Can insights from data protection offer any guidance?

Professor Tang will examine copyright parallels with privacy law, where legal frameworks have had to respond to large-scale data collection and use. Drawing on that experience, she will consider what copyright law might learn from the evolution of privacy regulation, how AI compares with earlier technological shifts, and the role of courts in interpreting copyright law in a period of rapid technological change. Her presentation will also consider whether large-scale data use points towards new approaches to copyright regulation alongside, or in place of, traditional transactional models.

Professor Kimberlee Weatherall (University of Sydney, ADM+S) will join Professor Tang for a Q&A following the presentation.

DETAILS

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer
161 Castlereagh St, Sydney NSW 2000

Thursday 6 August 2026

6PM – 8PM
(Discussion starts at 6:30PM)

CPD (1 unit)

All members and friends are welcome

TICKET PRICES

IN PERSON
Canapes and drinks will be served
CSA Members $55
Non-Members $80

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Non-Members $60

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