Authorship: Carmela Artime Omil
Programme: Information and Knowledge Society
Lenguage: Spanish
Supervisor: Dr Raquel Xalabarder Plantada
Departament / Institut: Doctoral School
Subjects: Social Sciences
Key words: copyright, authorship, computer generated works, artificial intelligence
Area of knowledge: Information and Knowledge Society
Abstract
For some time now, technology has been generating content that can be categorized as works – music, theatre, cinema, literature, painting, etc. – that are eligible for intellectual property (IP) and/or copyright protection. These are known as computer-generated works (CGW), with examples such as the Edmond de Belamy portrait or The Next Rembrandt. This raises questions, on the one hand, about the validity of the authorship principle, i.e., there is no work without an author and no author without a work, and on the other hand, whether the solutions provided by comparative law are (or are not) sufficient or appropriate. In the thesis, we also explore other non-human creations: those of animals and transhumans (hybrids, cyborgs). We will analyze both the object (the work) and the subject (the author), concluding with a defense of intellectual property based on the centrality of the anthropocentric figure of the author, and relegating the protection of other forms of creation to different frameworks.