Intellectual Property on Works of Art Made by Artificial Intelligence

Cláudio Lisboa dos Santos, Angela Machado Rocha

Autonomous system, Copyright, Painting, Technology, Rembrandt.

Rembrandt is considered as one of the greatest painters in the history of art in Europe and the world. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been gaining a field of academic study due to the possibilities of its use in several fields of knowledge. Its application can be in facial recognition, in music composition, art painting, among others. The objective of the work is to verify the ownership of a work of art made by AI based on the traces made by Rembrandt. The methodology research used was qualitative, exploratory and descriptive, bibliographic and case study. AI made a painting with similar characteristics to Rembrandt's works and a doubt arose about the intellectual property of the work. We conclude that because it is a new fact, there is no legislation to support the deed and as intellectual property is related to human invention, it cannot be attributed to the machine.

Received: 12 Nov 2020; Received in revised form: 4 Dec 2020; Accepted: 6 Dec 2020; Available online: 13 Dec 2020

10.22161/ijaers.712.9