November 5, 2020
“There should not be any copyright protection over work created used artificial intelligence, provided the work is generated autonomously by an AI algorithm meaning that you cannot trace a human linkage to the creation of that particular work,” Arul George Scaria, associate professor at NLU Delhi said. “I don’t see any philosophical or economic justification for granting IP rights over that particular work, be it patterns or be it copyright,” he added. However, Aamod Gupte, legal head at ZEEL, contended that works created using AI should not be kept out of the Copyright Act’s purview.
Scaria and Gupte were speaking at MediaNama’s discussion on the proposed amendments to the Copyright Act, for which the Indian government has begun private consultation. The Act was last amended in 2012, when the internet and multimedia landscape was wildly different. Held on October 30 with support from Netflix, Amazon, and Facebook, the discussion looked at whether A
November 6, 2020
“Copyright law is not just about the rights of creators, but it’s also about the rights of society to access the work, and also the right of society to use the works in different manners,” Dr. Arul George Scaria said at MediaNama’s discussion on Copyright and Digital Media. The roundtable was organised against the backdrop of the government’s private consultation to amend the Copyright Act. In the discussion, participants surfaced many gaps in the law that could be filled surrounding fair use and intermediary liability for copyrighted content. The discussion was held on October 30 with support from Netflix, Amazon, and Facebook.