The legal implications of 'creative', artificial intelligent robots

One question that needs to be answered is: can an AI's creation be protected by copyright and patents? This issue is multifaceted as legal experts try to apply existing law to fast-evolving circumstances -- something that does not always work. There are also differences in national legal systems, so technology companies need to take a global perspective to ensure full realisation of all implications. For example, under French copyright law, which was largely created to protect individual authors above all and is even recalcitrant to ownership of copyright by legal persons (as opposed to individuals), the standard of protection of copyright work is the imprint of the author's personality. Clearly, authors must be individuals, and AI cannot hold copyright.