Contemporary Artificial Art and the Law: Searching for an Author

By Gianmaria Ajani

The advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as an "autonomous author" urges the law to rethink authorship, originality, creativity. AI-generated artworks are in search of an author because current copyright laws offer as a solution only public domain or fragile regulatory mechanisms. During the 20th century visual artists have been posing persistent challenges to the law world: Conceptual Art favoured legal mechanisms alternative to copyright law. The case of AI-art is, however, different: for the first time the artworld is discovering the prospective of an art without human authors. Rather than preserving the status quo in the law world, policy makers should consider a reformative conception of AI in copyright law and take inspiration from innovative theories in the field of robot law, where new frames for a legal personhood of artificial agents are proposed. This would have a spill-over effect also on copyright regulations.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004442669
• ISBN13: 9789004442665
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 86 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"