Abstract
There has been a rise in technological advancements, specifically the implementation of Artifical intelligence (AI) across a multitiude of industries. One of the advantages of AI and its advanced capabilities is to incorporate this in and/or have this assume control over some or all of the processes in the generation of works. This minor dissertation seeks to discuss the issue of works generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI) that would in the normal course qualify for copyright protection. The preliminary issue arising from AI in the spectrum of copyright is whether such works so generated, are in fact awarded copyright protection and if so, who or what is awarded ownership of the work. Copyright protection and ownership is put into question specifically due to the fact that the generation of the work may be viewed as too far removed from the human author...
LL.M. (Intellectual Property Law)