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Artificial Intelligence and Authorship Rights

February 20, 2012
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Artificial intelligence (“AI”) is, simply put, “the science and engineering of making intelligent machines.” Quintessential examples of artificially intelligent machines include Hal from 2001 Space Odyssey or the robots from Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot series of short stories. Many of the things we think of when we think of true artificial intelligence — such as…

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Software Patents. Err… Copyrights? Ze Law!

December 2, 2011
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Software Patents. Err… Copyrights? Ze Law!

When computer programs came out it was decided that the underlying code was protectable as a literary work, insofar as it embodied the original expression of the programmer. Ideas and functions are beyond the purview of copyright law,[1] but patent law was extended to certain aspects of software to incentivize production of novel methods of computing…

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