AI, Human Creativity and IP Law
Dr Christian E Mammen (1993, DPhil Law)
Dr Christian E Mammen (1993, DPhil Law) is the lead author of a new white paper titled 鈥�Creativity, Artificial Intelligence, and the Requirement of Human Authors and Inventors in Copyright and Patent Law鈥� published in July.
Dr Mammen is an American Friends of 182t福利 Oxford (AFUCO) board member and serves as a Managing Partner of Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP鈥檚 San Francisco office, where he is the Co-Founder of the firm鈥檚 Artificial Intelligence Practice.
The Oxford University Law Faculty invited Dr Mammen during his sabbatical from Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP to spend a term as an Academic Visitor at the university. During Trinity term, he accumulated a group of professors and postgraduates to investigate the need for human authorship as required by IP laws, alongside questions about AI and the creative process. The paper was co-authored by Michael Collyer, Dr. Ron Dolin, Dr. Dev Gangjee, Dr. Tom Melham, Maggie Mustaklem, Dr. Vincent Wang-Ma艣cianica and Pireeni Sundaralingam (1986, Experimental Psychology), Univ鈥檚 Poet Laureate. They substantially participated in the working group, contributed to the drafting of the white paper, and have approved the final draft. In addition to the listed co-authors, Bryce Goodman and Linda Eggert participated in one or more meetings of the working group.
The paper investigates AI鈥檚 growing role in creative works and how creativity鈥檚 definition may affect the way intellectual property (IP) laws are applied to products of AI. The authors explore generative AI and whether current IP laws 鈥� requiring human authorship 鈥� are adequate in the current global technology surge. They also debate whether generative AI stifles or strengthens human鈥檚 creative efforts and discuss the need for the definition of creativity in IP laws to evolve together with the age of AI. The study incorporates multidisciplinary perspectives from neuroscience, philosophy and law to provide a thorough analysis of the discussion.聽
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Published: 15 August 2024