Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property

Abstract

In the article, prepared on the basis of the author’s plenary report presented at the XII International Forum “Innovative Development through the Intellectual Property Market”, held in Moscow at the MSLA on October 30, 2020, issues arising in the field of intellectual property rights in connection with the development of artificial intelligence systems and their impact on the development of legal relations in the economy and culture of modern society are considered. Aspects of mutual policies in the field of intellectual property rights and the development of artificial intelligence systems for the development of innovation and creativity are discussed. Questions of copyright and ownership are raised and proposed in the interaction of man, collective and artificial intelligence or artificial intelligence systems. Issues related to artificial intelligence as an object of intellectual property are considered. The position of the author on the legal personality of artificial intelligence to intellectual property objects created by autonomous artificial intelligence systems is presented, which is expressed in the answers to the questions of the project of the World Intellectual Property Organization to the wide discussion of interested parties, planned for 2020 at the headquarters of the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva. The main conceptual principle of the author on the issues of the planned discussion is to grant the right of copyright and ownership of intellectual property objects created by autonomous artificial intelligence to a dressed subject — a person or collective, a developer of artificial intelligence with fixation of the latter as a sub-subject or instrument of the subject. Traditional categories of intellectual property rights are also discussed, such as patentability and the inventive level of property in connection with the possible generation of these objects by artificial intelligence. Issues related to data, its generation, fabrications and legal relations regarding data are considered. It is proposed to harmonize international intellectual property rights policies to reduce the technological gap between countries in the context of artificial intelligence development.