
Creativity and copying - how innovation really happens

While researching AI and computational creativity for a paper I'm writing I realized the site for the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology Digest was down, so my paper "Artificial Intelligence and Authorship Rights" was inaccessible. I'm posting the penultimate draft here until such a time as they have it back up and want this…

Intellectual property law has grown like a cancer,[1] with copyright growing on creative content to produce a tangled, dysfunctional knot of proprietary rights that eat away at what could be a robust system of incentives and digital production. (How about you ask how I really feel?) Which is one of my main reasons for obsessing about copyright…