Copyright and Patent Laws for the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Authorship and Inventorship Revisited

This book responds to the need to distinguish human creations from those produced by AI.

It does so by tracing human attributes of authorship and inventorship in statutory requirements for protection and ownership in European copyright and patent laws.

Its main contribution lies in exposing shortcomings in how the laws are applied in the UK, Germany, and France. It shows that the human origin of creations is traditionally inferred from their expressive form or technical character. Given the ...