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Following the success of ACID’s Dids Macdonald OBE’s talk on AI and intellectual property (IP) at the British Furniture Association’s AI Summit in September 2026, Dids sat down with The Furniture Magazine to answer their questions on what design protection covers, what AI has changed, and what a small workshop can do when it finds a copy.
At the invitation of the Michael Kyprianou LLC, organisers of Cyprus Intellectual Property (IP) Day held in Nicosia recently, Dids Macdonald, OBE., Chair and Co-founder of Anti Copying In Design (ACID) was invited to talk about “IP as a Positive Force for Growth” with the caveat, “But only if the copycat culture from generative AI data scraping to fakes and knock offs are curtailed”.
At a packed conference of industry professionals in the Furniture Industry, organised by the National Furniture Association last week at the Coventry Building Society Arena, ACID’s Chair, Dids Macdonald OBE, using an iceberg as an analogy said about artificial intelligence, “What we know is minimal and exciting, but what we don’t know is daunting and poses enormous risk.”

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