Contemporary Artificial Art and the Law

Searching for an Author
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-44266-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 86 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 167 g

Reihe: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences / Brill Research Perspectives in Art and Law

The 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ajani, Gianmaria

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein
• Rechtswissenschaften Wirtschaftsrecht Urheberrecht Kunst-, Musik-, Verlags- und Theaterrecht
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Künstliche Intelligenz

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contemporary 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

Über Autor(innen)

Gianmaria Ajani is Professor of Law & Art at the University of Turin, Italy and past President of the same University. He has published monographs and articles on Legal Theory, Law and Language, Legal Reforms in post-Socialist Countries. He taught EU Law at UC Berkeley. He is Visiting Professor at the University of Bergen.