Copyright laws are necessary for creators to protect their work, and to prevent people who would like to copy their works and sell them to others. Therefore we have laws to regulate the behavior of people, but how can the law regulate AI?
Regardless of whether the work is a human’s creation or the work of an AI, they all need copyright laws to protect their work. If AI-generated works are not protected by copyright laws, somebody might refer to the AI-generated works and copy them for their own gain.
However, copyright laws of AI-generated works should be stricter. Not only do AI-generated works produce faster than humans’, but their quality are also similar to humans. Presently, artificial intelligence can help humans create content more efficiently, but will there be one day when artificial intelligence completely replaces the need for humans? At that time, when employment opportunities will be left for humans?
After this lecture, I understand more about AI, copyright systems and the solutions for this problem going forward. I also recognise that copyright laws concerning AI are not easy to carry out, since many different factors need to be considered. Therefore, different countries may have different attitudes to this issue. For instance, the case on Creative Machine not being able to apply for copyright laws in the US due to its lack of human identity, and because of the way the Creative Machine creates content. The Creative Machine creates works based on data inputted into the MLAlgorithm that it takes reference from so it is not actually its own creation. On the other hand, Japan allowed literary works of an AI to be submitted to a story writing competition, implying that it recognises the right an AI should have when it produces new works. There is no right or wrong for this issue; what matters is when we approach a hands-on problem and we can design solution for each unique case.