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Copyright's Fixation Requirement: Is It Still Needed?, Attamongkol Tantratian
Copyright's Fixation Requirement: Is It Still Needed?, Attamongkol Tantratian
Maurer Theses and Dissertations
While the United States requires fixation for an original work to be entitled to federal copyright protection, many other countries ignore such requirement. The difference could lead to partial copyright protection standards across jurisdictions over certain works that are not fixed. Examples of such works include extemporaneous speeches, lectures, improvisational performances, and contemporary arts that are transitory. Moreover, with today’s rapid development of arts and technologies, creative works can be presented via new media without being fixed in a traditional way. The examples include live streams of lectures and music performances, which have become part of the “new normal.” In …
Artificial Creativity: A Case Against Copyright For Ai-Created Visual Artwork, Megan Svedman
Artificial Creativity: A Case Against Copyright For Ai-Created Visual Artwork, Megan Svedman
IP Theory
Artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly complex, and provides examples of compelling, human-like performances. One such artificial intelligence technology is known as Creative Adversarial Network (“CAN”) technology, which relies on inputs of preexisting pieces of art to create pieces of original art that pass as human-made. Whether the coders responsible for CAN-technology should be granted coverage for the resultant art remains an open question in United States jurisprudence. This paper seeks to explore why, given both software’s historical legacy in copyright law and bedrock copyright justifications, extending copyright coverage to the coders responsible for CAN technology would be a grave misstep …