Intellectual Rights to Objects Created by Artificial Intelligence

The aim of this thesis is to study the phenomenon of artificial intelligence, its legal nature, as well as the features and further prospects of legal regulation of related relations from the point of view of intellectual property law. The following tasks contributed to the achievement of this goal: - study of the proposed approaches to defining the concept and key features of artificial intelligence; - research of existing positions on the legal status of artificial intelligence, in particular, the possibility of its recognition as a subject of law; - analysis of the legal status of artificial intelligence from the perspective of domestic and foreign legislation on intellectual property; - assessment of the nature of artificial intelligence activities to create potentially copyrighted objects; - analysis of existing approaches to the legal regime of objects created by artificial intelligence and the ownership of rights to them; - assessment of the prospects for legislative regulation and law enforcement practice in relation to issues related to the generation of objects by artificial intelligence systems. The thesis consists of an introduction, three chapters, divided into paragraphs, conclusion and bibliography. The first chapter discusses the possibility of establishing a universal definition of the term “artificial intelligence”, as well as various approaches to the definition of this concept. The second chapter is devoted to the analysis of the possibility of endowing artificial intelligence with legal personality. In particular, this chapter discusses and analyzes various approaches to determining the legal status of artificial intelligence. The third chapter examines issues such as the legal problems of involving artificial intelligence systems to create objects that could potentially be considered as the results of intellectual activity. In addition, in this chapter, a comparative legal analysis of domestic and foreign legislation, as well as judicial practice, related to the issues under study is carried out. Moreover, in the framework of this chapter, various approaches to the legal status of artificial intelligence in intellectual property law are examined and analyzed, in particular, the legal regime of objects created by artificial intelligence and the procedure for determining the ownership of rights to them are examined.