Friday, January 10, 2020
Chinese Court Says AI-Generated Content Is Subject To Copyright Protection
Techdirt: Just last week we wrote about the good news that the European Patent Office had decided to reject AI-generated inventions for patent applications and explained why this was good. As we noted, prior to that, most of the discussion on AI and monopoly protections had been focused on copyright, and there are various lawyers and law firms eagerly pushing the idea that AI should be able to obtain copyrights, despite it going against the entire basis of copyright law.
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My personal stance on this issue after reading this article is that AI inventions should be able to be considered for copyright protection under the name of the company/group/person that is licensing the program and wanted to use the program to make whatever piece of material they then want to copyright. I feel like this is kind of a middle ground between not allowing these inventions any consideration for copyright, but also doesn't go so far as to give AI their own copyright claims. Like the more personal commentary at the end of this article discusses, I don't think that we need to introduce AI to the idea of capitalistic greed because once AI become more capable this would be a major detriment to society. Imagine if a super smart being with no human morals who has a taste for capitalism. Personally, I don't think we need more greedy CEOs in the world, and I think this is a pretty surefire way of leading us down that path.
As soon as I read the title of this article, I was confused that AI inventions would even have something as copyright protections, probably because I have never thought about it but after reading this article, I believe I understand where this stance of copyright protection stems from.
Come to think of it, a particular AI invention is after all, the work of a particular group, company or person. They are the ones who have invested in the creation of the invention which they have envisioned, so it does make all the sense for them to patent their creation so that no one else can call their the creator's work as their own.
I feel like what the Chinese court has decided is a thoughtful way to protect and safeguard various different AI inventions, made by talented and intelligent people. Such protection would only motivate creators to continue to do so without fear of outside plagiarism.
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