Yes, I think that would be the concern. I think right now there's a bit of a legal grey area where a lot of this research is happening. The potential of AI is so great—it's so lucrative and it's going to be helpful to virtually every industry—that at the moment, companies' tolerance for risk may be a bit higher. I think if there were to be an adverse court decision that says, in fact, all of this is infringing, it would have really adverse impacts on Canada's investment in AI.
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