“AI on trial: Legal dimensions of intellectual property in India”, First Post, January 2, 2024:
“India has a wide range of IP laws within its legal framework. It includes several statutes such as Trademark Act, 1999, Copyright Act, 1957, Design Act, 2000 and Patents Act, 1970. However, it is quite obvious and natural for these laws to be proven obsolete when it comes to resolving IPR issues linked with Artificial Intelligence infringement.
AI is an entirely different ball game from the rest of the modern tech available. In layman’s language, AI is a technology that adapts and learns itself from a set of algorithms and data sets provided to it. Modern-day AI is also known as Generative AI- it consumes existing data, learns from it, and generates data similar to the original one. This method has time and again proven to infringe several copyrights, trademarks and patents.
To understand this, one needs to know that according to Section 2(d)(v) and (vi) of the Copyright Act, an author is a person who causes a computer-generated work to be created. But the point in consideration is whether a person could be linked to the output generated by AI as it is based on a self-learning and adapting model……”
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