Copyright in Works Created by Artificial Intelligence: Between Creativity and Investments

Enrico Bonadio, Luke McDonagh, Plamen Dinev

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Abstract

Artificial intelligence (AI) has captured the attention of copyright lawyers fascinated by the thought of machines creating works of art, music and literature. There is no doubt that, as has often happened in the past during previous waves of technological advances, AI platforms – and especially, machine learning – have brought with them new opportunities as well as challenges. Machine learning is an AI application enabling programs to learn and progress automatically from experience. Its main feature is accessing data and often using it for the purpose of creating outputs, including music, literature, movies and art. Amounts of data are observed and analysed by the machine, which enables the latter to learn and then make creative decisions leading to final outputs that, as precise works of art, are often not foreseeable by the people who developed and started the initial program. Such a process is characterised by the absence of substantial human intervention or assistance after the program is operated, and by using algorithms – namely a sequence of instructions aimed at solving a problem or performing a computation. This can be labelled ‘algorithmic creativity’, that is, the way by which AI creates new works.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Cambridge Handbook of Investment-Driven Intellectual Property
EditorsEnrico Bonadio, Patrick Goold
Place of PublicationCambridge
PublisherCambridge University Press
Chapter4
Pages73-85
Number of pages13
ISBN (Electronic)9781108989527
ISBN (Print)9781108839198
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 23 Mar 2024

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