Tanya Aplin (King's College London) and Giulia Pasqualetto have posted Artificial Intelligence and Copyright Protection (2019 R.M., Kuoppamäki P. & Pitkänen O., Regulating Industrial Internet through IPR, Data Protection and Competition Law, Kluwer Law Int.) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
The proliferation of cultural creations using AI, and their increasing commodification, raises interesting questions from a copyright perspective. This paper addresses the copyright issues raised by works that are generated by AI. In particular, it assesses whether AI generated content may constitute an original, copyright protected work, and who is the author and owner of copyright in such a work, if at all. This is done from the perspective of international, EU and domestic copyright law (UK, France and US). The paper suggests that there is sufficient copyright protection for AI generated content such that reforms to the system are probably not needed.