The Rise of the Artificial Artist: AI Creativity, Copyright and Database Right

摘要

This article is a first attempt to discuss the application of copyright law to AI. It looks at the matter from two different angles: (1) the use of copyrighted content to train AI technologies ("the input"); and (2) the possible copyright or equivalent intellectual property (IP) protection of a "creative" product generated by AI technologies ("the output"). This article refers primarily to the laws of the EU and US. Both systems implement international copyright treaties, such as the Berne Convention, and follow a broadly similar approach. In the "output" section this article briefly analyses the UK rules protecting computer-generated works.