Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become omnipresent in today's business environment: from chatbots to healthcare services to various ways of creating useful information. While AI has been increasingly used to optimize various creative and innovative processes, the integration of AI into products, services, and other operational procedures raises significant concerns across virtually all areas of intellectual property (IP) law. While AI has drawn extensive attentionfrom IP experts globally, this is the first book providing a broad and comprehensive picture from the perspectives of the very nature of AI technology, its commercial implications, its interaction with different kinds of IP, IP administration, software and data, its social and economic impact on theinnovation policy, and ultimately AI's eligibility as a legal entity.

An important and multi-faceted contribution to the debate about how AI fits into existing intellectual property law frameworks and where those frameworks need amendment., This is a truly excellent book on AI and law. Beginning with a concise but clear explanation of the programming techniques behind AI systems, the book provides a comprehensive account of the intersection between this new software technology and the intellectual property system. From the many ways AI improves the mechanics of IP-related government administration, to legal handling of the copying of data required for much AI to work, to profound questions such as human-assisted creativity and machine generation of IP-covered works, the outstanding cast of editors and contributors cover all the crucial issues. Here is the single essential volume to appear so far in this important new field of study., With the continuous evolution of technology and the social environment surrounding AI and intellectual property, it is necessary to build methodologies that can be applied not only to existing issues but also to future ones, the concrete shape of which we cannot yet know. This book presents such a methodology. It provides diverse analyses of technology, law, and economics, as well as governance and problem solving. Through an examination of contemporary approaches in different countries, this ambitious book aims to construct legislative and policy theories, as well as a methodological template for future research., This book offers comprehensive insights into IP-related issues that arise in the context of AI. It provides a hands-on guide by an international team of contributors and is highly recommended.

Jyh-An Lee is Associate Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law.Reto M. Hilty is Professor and Director of Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Germany.Kung-Chung Liu is Lee Kong Chian Professor of Law (Practice), Director of the Applied Research Center for Intellectual Assets and the Law in Asia (ARCIALA) at Singapore Management University and also Professor at Renmin University of China.