This timely book explores the challenges posed by AI to the creative sector, emphasizing the consequences for authors and creators. Featuring cutting-edge contributions from leading international legal scholars, it interrogates whether existing rights and legal frameworks can adapt to the rise of AI, or if entirely new rules are needed.Questioning traditional legal concepts in light of AI’s transformative influence, contributors assess fields such as intellectual property, privacy and data protection, fundamental rights and international law. They discuss the various facets of AI regulation, copyright and payment models, as well as different legal regimes and their applicability to AI, including unfair competition. The book also confronts under-explored issues like generative AI training, the regulation of rights reservation, author remuneration and perspectives on AI in the Global South.Artificial Intelligence and Creativity is a key resource for scholars and students of intellectual property law, as well as practicing lawyers specializing in the law of artificial intelligence. Researchers in other disciplines, from economics to the humanities, interested in the impact of AI and its regulation will also benefit from its comprehensive overview of this increasingly complex and controversial field.
Edited by Guido Westkamp, Professor in Intellectual Property, Media and Comparative Law and Noam Shemtov, Professor in Intellectual Property and Technology Law, Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Contents1 Artificial intelligence, standards and patents 1Enrico Bonadio and Akshita Rohatgi2 Human copyright and generative AI training 22Robert Brauneis3 Is there a captain in the ship? The EU copyright regulator’squest in the generative AI era 44Christophe Geiger and Vincenzo Iaia4 The AI Act and open source 74Thomas Hoeren and Stefan Pinelli5 AI for creative reuse: a balanced approach 81Georgia Jenkins6 The multi-layered regulation of rights reservation (opt-out)under EU copyright law and the AI Act – for the benefit of whom? 100Péter Mezei7 Property or propriety? Unfair competition law and generativeAI development and exploitation 125Chris Reed8 Winning the Race: America’s AI Action Plan scrubbinginappropriate AI bias – where have all the lysergic Vikingsgone? 157Gary Rinkerman9 The AI Act and author remuneration – a model for otherregions? 168Martin Senftleben10 When AI wreaks havoc across the equator: a right to objectby the Global South? 205Guan Tang and Brian Leung11 The freedom to mine and train artificial intelligence modelsand the limits of copyright and personality rights law 228Guido Westkamp
‘This timely book explores a defining topic of our era. Bringing together leading scholars, it advances debates beyond questions of authorship and inventorship to address concrete questions of AI, patented standards, remuneration, governance, and fundamental freedoms. Through erudite analysis and insights drawn from recent case law, it is essential reading for scholars, policymakers and practitioners.’