AI and IP: Are Creativity and Inventorship Inherently Human Activities? Article Swipe

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YOU? · · 2020 · Open Access · · DOI: https://doi.org/10.25148/lawrev.14.2.9

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

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