By Melissa Ritti ( November 10, 2026, 22:39 GMT | Insight) -- Major artificial intelligence companies risk using intellectual property and contracts to insulate themselves from competition, a prominent US copyright scholar warned Tuesday. Speaking alongside him at the World Intellectual Property Organization, smaller developers described the benefits and risks of relying on frontier models, as well as their own need to protect investments in specialist technology and training data.Competition authorities should pay close attention to major artificial intelligence companies’ use of intellectual property, licenses and contracts, copyright scholar Paul Goldstein warned Tuesday....
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