April 15, 2024

Taiwan: Governing the AI genie

AI has raised concerns regarding copyright protection.
The first issue is whether AI-generated work is copyrightable. In 2018, the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) stated that AI-generated results are not copyrightable because the country’s copyright law protects creations by “human beings” only.
With the rise of ChatGPT, the same issue has surged again; once again, copyright protection authorities worldwide have taken the same position.
Similar to its US counterpart, the TIPO opines that copyrightability depends on the level of human involvement in the creative process.
The greater the degree of participation by a human creator, the greater the likelihood of the work being copyright-protected.

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