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The Artificial Author

Creativity and intellectual property in the AI eraBy Simone Aliprandi

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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.

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GenrePolitics and Government

Length7 hrs 42 mins

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FormateBook with Audio

Publish dateOct 3, 2025

LanguageEnglish

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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