Disappearing Authorship: Ethical Protection of AI-Generated News from the Perspective of Copyright and Other Laws
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Disappearing Authorship: Ethical Protection of AI-Generated News from the Perspective of Copyright and Other Laws
Original language description
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been widely recognized as an important game-changer in our digital society. With help of AI, we are currently able to automate a number of various tasks, including creation of visual, musical, or textual content. Ethical approach to design, development and utilization of AI systems as well as their legal compliance and robustness are defined as prerequisites of building trust and adoption of the technology. In this paper we analyze whether law supports ethics in the specific domain of automated journalism by examining principles of accountability, responsibility, and transparency (the ART principles) from the perspective of legal interests protected by copyright and other laws. Other factors influencing ethical decision-making process, namely specificities of a business model and perception of authorship, are also taken into account. We present results of a recent pilot qualitative study illustrating that perception of authorship is closely related to perception of agency and responsibility. Our findings show that the current Czech law neither incentivizes implementation of the ART principles nor perception of agency in relation to AI systems for automated journalism. Perception of disappearing authorship may, thus, also lead to perception of disappearing responsibility. In order to solve these problems, we suggest introduction of new legal obligations and adaptation of existing personal rights to protect authors involved in the design of AI systems.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50501 - Law
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/TL03000152" target="_blank" >TL03000152: Artificial Intelligence, Media and Law</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Name of the periodical
Journal of Intellectual Property, Information Technology and E-Commerce Law
ISSN
2190-3387
e-ISSN
2190-3387
Volume of the periodical
13
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
13
Pages from-to
132-144
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85139263725