AI and IP: Are Creativity and Inventorship Inherently Human Activities?
Christian E. Mammen, Carrie Richey · FIU Law Review · 2020
As artificial intelligence algorithms (AIs) become ever more powerful and sophisticated, they are becoming capable of generating audio and visual begs the question, can these AI-created works be granted copyright protection in the U.S.? Should they be granted the same copyright protections as human-created works?If AI-generated works are copyrightable, what are the legal and policy implications?Similarly, AIs can now devise novel and non-obvious solutions to known problems.The first patent applications have been filed in the U.K. and elsewhere, naming an AI as an inventor.Can AIs U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has recently raised for public comment about AI inventions in the U.S. Are we on the cusp of a new era that extends intellectual property protection to computerat these protections are exclusively available to the products of human creation?I.Introduction ......