How Artificial Intelligence is set to disrupt our legal framework for Intellectual Property rights - IPWatchdog.com Patents & Patent Law

It's safe to say that most sectors will undergo significant disruption as a result of artificial intelligence (AI) technology. AI will not only disrupt our business models but it will also disrupt our legal framework for the creation and exploitation of intellectual property (IP) rights, giving rise to new IP challenges for those seeking to develop and deploy new AI systems. With AI systems already being used to generate content capable of attracting IP protection, working out exactly who owns the IP rights in this content will become increasingly important, especially when it comes to licensing or enforcing those rights. When an AI system is used by a human solely as a tool for creating a work, the same human using the system will generally be considered "the author". But what happens when the AI system is more involved in creating the work, e.g. it is given a few simple inputs and the system goes on to create something which is much more than the sum of the inputs?