Politico March 28, 2025
With help from Brendan Bordelon
Hello, and welcome to another round of the Future in 5 Questions. This week we spoke with Karen Robinson, senior vice president and deputy general counsel at Adobe, where she oversees the company’s intellectual property, trust and safety, and anti-piracy and fraud litigation. Robinson talks about how AI is providing new ways for people who don’t traditionally think of themselves as “creatives” to express themselves, as well as creators’ concerns about AI plagiarizing their art. We also get into why Robinson thinks the government needs to issue formal guidance on how copyright law applies to AI, how creativity is the missing element in how we talk about AI and why we all need to lean...