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Book SynopsisThe 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.
Table of ContentsContemporary Artificial Art and the Law Searching for an Author Gianmaria Ajani Abstract Keywords 1 Introduction 2 Artificial Art in Search of an Author 3 Kaleidoscope: Authors and Artworks between Classic Law and the Art World 4 Artificial Authors? 5 “If a Machine Acts as Intelligently as a Human Being Then It Is as Intelligent as a Human Being” 6 Conclusion: “Art Makes Meaning” Acknowledgments Bibliography
