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in: Legal and Economic Perspectives on the Nexus of AI and Copyright, IGI Global, pp.139-154, 2025
In the digital age, music composed, poems written, and canvases painted by artificial intelligence equipped with deep learning techniques have revealed the need to rethink the fundamental concepts of intellectual property law. Once it is accepted as a work of authorship, the question of who the copyright holder arises. Is there really a need to re-think these conventional concepts or is the answer clear enough? Indeed, the legal debate of whether works created by non-human beings deserve copyright protection is not a problem specific to the digital age. The copyright status of a selfie taken by a monkey has been the subject of another extraordinary lawsuit, Naruto v. Slater. The purpose of this study is to examine the impacts of AI-generated artistic works on copyright law. In order to address the challenges created by non-human authors, with focus on AI-generated artistic works, the conventional concepts of intellectual property law are discussed to determine whether they are sufficient to handle the novel problems AI systems created.