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Intellectual Property Law

Maurer School of Law: Indiana University

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Copyright protection

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Where Is The Author: The Copyright Protection For Ai-Generated Works, Chieh Huang Jun 2022

Where Is The Author: The Copyright Protection For Ai-Generated Works, Chieh Huang

Maurer Theses and Dissertations

The two groups of the human-or-machine questions, whether AI-generated works are copyrightable and whether AI-generated works have human authors, are revisiting the current copyright law with the emergence of AI-generated works. These revisiting questions reveal that the current authorship requirement fails to provide a clear and operable standard on evaluating a human contributor’s intellectual labor for creative output. Such a defect of the current authorship requirement has to be fixed to respond to the technological change of artificial intelligence and the burgeoning prevalence of AI- or advanced computer program-generated works.

This dissertation’s main goal is to fix the flaw …


Evaluating The Legal Issues Of Internet Service Providers In China -- A Comparative Copyright Analysis Of Chinese Isps, The U.S. Isps, And Japanese Isps, Yifan Huang Nov 2016

Evaluating The Legal Issues Of Internet Service Providers In China -- A Comparative Copyright Analysis Of Chinese Isps, The U.S. Isps, And Japanese Isps, Yifan Huang

Maurer Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is motivated by a legal challenge in the area of Chinese copyright protection: Baidu, which was considered a disaster by the copyright owners in China. To solve this legal challenge, the Chinese could learn from the legal experience of Japan and the U.S. regarding this issue.

The traditional ISP legal system provides a passive-reactive approach to the secondary copyright liability of ISPs. However, the Baidu issue in China indicates that a passive-reactive ISP model is not able to prevent copyright infringement. Recent cases in China and the U.S. reflect a new trend that the judicial branch adopts an …