The Droid Duo Podcast

Big news. The Droid Duo just became the Droid Trio for the first time.

In this episode, Gil (pink droid) and David (blue droid) welcome Juliana Neill Bower, the purple droid. Juliana is a partner at Fox Rothschild and a leading IP and AI lawyer. Together, they unpack what is actually happening in the courts around generative AI, copyright, and fair use, and what it means for creators, brands, and AI builders.

Juliana helped Gil and David write the Harvard Business Review piece “Generative AI Has an Intellectual Property Problem.” Now she returns to explain what has changed since 2023, where the big test cases stand, and how companies should think about training data, guardrails, and risk.

In this episode, we cover.

• Why copyright law was never written with non human “authors” in mind.

• How courts are starting to treat training data versus AI outputs.

• The tensions around fair use, from photographers and visual IP owners to news publishers and platforms.

• What the Anthropic, New York Times v. OpenAI/Microsoft, and Google Books style cases might signal about the future.

• Why guardrails on outputs are becoming legally critical for image and video generators.

• What startups and small businesses should know before using AI models commercially.

If you are a marketer, founder, creator, or AI builder wondering “What can I safely do with AI right now, and what should I avoid?” this conversation will make you smarter about the real IP risks and the likely direction of the law.

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