The AI Copyright Dilemma
The AI Copyright Dilemma Dareem Scipio* Since the public release of artificial intelligence technologies such as OpenAI last year, the United States Copyright Office (USCO) has reported a significant increase in persons seeking copyright protection for works generated by these technologies. This development has raised questions about whether AI generated works meet the long-established criteria necessary for copyright protection, particularly the requirement of human authorship. [1] On a strict interpretation of the current laws relating to authorship, any work solely generated by AI generated technologies will be incapable of obtaining copyright protection. The challenge involves those cases where there is a mixture of human involvement or authorship and mechanical ‘designer-ship’ by AI technologies. In such cases, the primary issue becomes whether the level of human involvement is such that the resulting work constitutes an original work of human authorship. Even then a ...