Harshita Sonkar, Undergraduate Student, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow
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Artificial Intelligence, which was fiction in the 1950s, is more science and less fiction these days. AI can already compose music; write lyrics; write scripts for movies and can paint too. Recently, Nature Morte Gallery in Delhi hosted India’s first artwork exhibition created by Artificial Intelligence. As the artworks created by AI are becoming ubiquitous, the question arises, who holds the authorship of the work; creator of the machine, human or the machine itself. For a work to be copyrightable it must meet the ‘modicum of creativity’, standard setup by the Hon’ble Court in EBC v. D. B. Modak, in this case court stated that minimal degree of creativity should be there in the work. Another essential element is the involvement of human skill, because it is considered that creativity is a human phenomenon. In th…
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Artificial Intelligence, which was fiction in the 1950s, is more science and less fiction these days. AI can already compose music; write lyrics; write scripts for movies and can paint too. Recently, Nature Morte Gallery in Delhi hosted India’s first artwork exhibition created by Artificial Intelligence. As the artworks created by AI are becoming ubiquitous, the question arises, who holds the authorship of the work; creator of the machine, human or the machine itself. For a work to be copyrightable it must meet the ‘modicum of creativity’, standard setup by the Hon’ble Court in EBC v. D. B. Modak, in this case court stated that minimal degree of creativity should be there in the work. Another essential element is the involvement of human skill, because it is considered that creativity is a human phenomenon. In th…