Copyright: “Who Owns AI’s Output?”

From a Communications of the ACM Article:

But consider: can you protect an AI-generated work or invention? Also, how are existing works protected from AI using them to produce its outputs?

These are seemingly simple questions, but not questions with easy answers.

That is because countries are scrambling to effectively legislate and regulate the ownership and usage of AI-produced works and ideas—and keep up with rapidly changing AI capabilities and systems. Currently, countries take very different approaches to whether or not individuals and companies can copyright or patent AI outputs. And, in the process, they’re sometimes raising more questions than they answer, especially about deeper issues like human creativity and ingenuity. The result is that the landscape for AI copyright and patent law looks a lot like the overall landscape for AI technology: confusing, chaotic, and changing at lightspeed.

Here’s where that legal landscape stands today.

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