— whether they're in the consumables market or after-market auto parts, or you know, auto electric vehicle component parts or music," Blackburn said."The thing is, a lot of people don't know that they're pirated until somebody sends something in for repair, and they realize they didn't make this… It is something that is an infringed patent or copyright.
"I think the first thing we're going to have to do is pass an online consumer privacy protection standard. That law needs to be passed," she said."You're going to have to give the individual the right to protect their information online and to hold it out of that open source, be able to firewall their information and their use in the virtual space."
Intellectual property and AI will be the focus of a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing that will be chaired by Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del. "Secondly, there's going to have to be a discussion, and we'll do more of this, how you handle the patent copyright issue. Because our law doesn't cover those that are generated through technology. They cover those that are filed by humans. So we’ve got to figure that component out," Blackburn added.
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