Digital platforms now dominate the creativ e industries\, yet the value they generate is shared unevenly - from how st reaming platforms compensate musicians to how AI companies use creative wor ks as training data. This imbalance\, Yaniv argues\, threatens both human c reativity and cultural diversity.
In his new book\, Creative Valu
e Chains: Copyright and Beyond for a Better Value Distribution (Bristo
l University Press\, 2026)\, Yaniv Benhamou examines this problem across mu
sic\, video games\, and the visual arts\, and proposes new models for faire
r value distribution in the age of generative AI. Learn more about the book
at
https://creative
valuechains.com/
To launch the book\, Yaniv is traveling across t he US and Canada\, giving a series of book talks and discussions\, as well as Law by Music performance-lectures combining live music and AI-generated visuals to illustrate the legal challenges facing creativity today - a form at he first presented at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2025.
At HLS\, the event will take the form of a conversation between Yaniv and Annika Go ldman from the Recording Artists Project (RAP) Transactional Clinic.
Yaniv Benhamou is Professor of Digital\, Information\, and Media Law at the University of Geneva's Faculty of Law\, where he directs the Digital Law C enter. His research centers on copyright and privacy\, with a focus on emer ging technologies\, the cultural sector\, and the collective dimension of d ata - including open licensing and data class actions. He regularly serves as an expert for World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)\, the Inte rnational Council of Museums (ICOM)\, and the Swiss IP Office\, and has aut hored reports on copyright and museums for WIPO and on digital sovereignty and AI for the Latin Cantons.
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