The Artificial Author
Creativity and intellectual property in the AI eraBy Simone Aliprandi
Length7h 42m
About this audiobook
The artificial author explores the theme of intellectual property in the era of generative artificial intelligence and reflects on the new concept of creativity brought by this disruptive technology.
The book questions the concept of authorship and the possibility that machines might perform much of the creative work traditionally reserved for humans, leaving the latter in the mere role of controller of the outputs obtained. Through an interesting doctrinal reflection, a precise commentary on jurisprudential cases, and a detailed survey of the terms of use of the main platforms, Simone Aliprandi offers an overview of the main emerging issues regarding copyright management of AI-generated works. The book is written in an accessible style and is intended not only for legal professionals but for all those interested in the new challenges posed by artificial intelligence in the field of creativity. The work is completed by a series of explanatory diagrams and an extensive bibliography.
Audiobook details
GenrePolitics and Government
Length7 hrs 42 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 3, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Copylettori
2Introduction
3In what sense “artificial author”?
4The history of this book
5Chapter 1 – Rethinking the concept of creativity and its legal framework
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61. From Greek “Techne” to Generative Artificial Intelligence: The Fascinating Evolution of the Concept of Creativity
72. Authors not human but not artificial either: the parallelism with works created by animals
82.1. Most emblematic cases
92.2. Non-human creations and the clear position of the U.S. Copyright Office
103. Machine-mediated creativity: a historical problem for copyright law
114. A human-centered copyright
125. The idea of creativity for legal theory
135.1. The idea of creativity in Italian law
145.2. The concept of creativity for Anglo-American copyright
156. “It’s not art! It’s just statistics”
167. It’s all about autonomy
178. Towards a new form of authorship
188.1. Shared authorship and crowdsourced works
198.2. Hybrid authorship and the concept of meta-author
208.3. A new way of creating... and thinking?
219. Law is late and technology makes the rules
2210. The focus on liability
2311. An ethical issue too (or perhaps mainly)
24Chapter 2 – Artificial intelligence and intellectual property: the applicable principles
251. Exclusive rights over artificial intelligence systems and their models
261.1 Model in what sense
271.2. What kind of work is the model?
281.3. Exclusive rights over the software component
291.4. Exclusive rights over the database?
301.5. Exclusive rights over the “concept”. The hypothesis of patenting the model
312. The exclusive rights affected by the AI systems training activity
322.1. Primarily, the rights of authors
332.2. There are also related rights (or neighbouring rights)
342.3 But above all, there is the sui generis right
352.4. Some reflections on image rights
362.5. Some specific cases: the voices of voice actors and the images of famous people
372.6. The (all-Italian) problem related to the reproduction of cultural heritage
38Chapter 3 – The central issue of AI training
391. Just another scraping of the internet
402. The so-called text and data mining
413. The insidious misunderstanding
424. The recurring (and wrong) question: do AIs “plagiarize” works?
435. Do generative AIs copy artists’ style (and thus infringe copyright for that)?
446. A new market is born: licenses for training AI systems
457. Fair use and transformative use: the U.S. approach
468. The viewpoint of European law
478.1. The 2019 CDSM directive and the text and data mining exception
488.2. The 2020 Resolution and the AI Act
49Chapter 4 – The most interesting copyright infringement lawsuits in AI training
501. Introduction
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