Just last week we wrote about the good news that the European
Patent Office had decided to reject AI-generated inventions for
patent applications and explained why this was good. As we noted,
prior to that, most of the discussion on AI and monopoly
protections had been focused on copyright, and there are various
lawyers and law firms eagerly pushing the idea that AI should be
able to obtain copyrights, despite it going against the entire
basis of copyright law. So far, we haven't had a real test of the
issue in the US (though the monkey selfie case could be seen as a
trial balloon for copyright for non-human creators), but apparently
at least one Chinese court has already gone in the other direction.
