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Autonomous Intelligent Systems as Creative Agents under the EU framework for Intellectual Property

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Madeleine de Cock Buning
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Recent advancement in technology in the domain of Autonomous Intelligent Systems (AIS) shall eventually lead to autonomous technology that can perceive, learn, decide and create without any human intervention. Already now there are robots that create better versions of robots and computer programmes that produce other computer programmes. Although the ability to create is a quality that has traditionally been considered a human capacity, the sudden increase in the level of complexity of such systems as well as their learning abilities, shall ultimately render human intervention in the process of creation redundant. This makes the need to address creative agents and the challenges they bring ever more evident. This contribution assesses the output of AIS as Creative Agents and its relation to the EU framework for Intellectual Property.

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Special Issue on the Man and the Machine
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European Journal of Risk Regulation , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , June 2016 , pp. 310 - 322
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016

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