Can Artificial Intelligence Be An Author? A Global Study On The Copyright Status Of Artificial Intelligence

1. Introduction

The study titled Copyright of AI-generated works: Approaches in the EU and beyond¹ (the "Study"), published last December by the European Parliamentary Research Service ("EPRS"), was prepared with the aim of examining how approaches to copyright law in the EU and around the world are evolving in response to the rapidly increasing capacity of artificial intelligence to generate visual, auditory, and written content.

The growing capacity of generative artificial intelligence systems to produce content is pushing the boundaries of traditional copyright law. In conventional copyright regimes, human creativity constitutes the fundamental basis for the protection of a work; however, in the case of AI-generated content, human contribution may be removed from the equation, rendering the concept of "authorship" increasingly ambiguous. The Study examines in particular the approaches adopted by different legal systems in response to the legal uncertainty