A book was recently published on lithium-ion batteries. You may wonder why this is the topic of a tech law article, especially with one of the simpler sentences in the book being: “Due to its high theoretical capacity (718 mAh g−1 ), low cost, relative abundance, and environmental benignity, NiO has attracted considerable attention among multiple TMOs for Li-ion batteries. The reason is that, apart from the preface, this 278-page book was written entirely by a machine learning (ML) program - a virtual author named Beta Writer. While this is interesting in many ways, it has significant implications from an Australian copyright...