AI is reshaping how fashion designers create and connect with customers. Should designers and other industry talent be required to disclose AI-generated elements? What should creators know and how can AI and intellectual property work together?

SUITED host Kenya Wiley recently sat down with IP attorney Darrell Mottley to discuss these issues; his current role as Assistant Clinical Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship Clinic (IPEC) at Suffolk University Law School; and how IPEC is training the next generation of IP attorneys while also providing legal services to creators in Boston and across the United States.

Professor Mottley's legal scholarship focuses on AI and the creative community. What should creators be mindful of when inputting their information into AI-assisted tools? What are First Amendment concerns around government-mandated transparency for AI-generated creative works—as discussed in Professor Mottley's latest law article?

In this episode, Professor Mottley explains why you should not put information into AI systems that you do not want to become public, citing the recent chat conversations that were searchable on Google as a cautionary example. He also shares strategies for designers using AI, plus practical advice and course recommendations for law students interested in fashion and tech.

Connect with Professor Darrell Mottley at Suffolk University Law School

Read Professor Mottley’s AI law article here.

For fashion designers and other creators requesting legal services, please see the application page for the Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship Clinic.

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