Newslink: Should robot artists be given copyright protection?
When a group of museums and researchers in the Netherlands unveiled a portrait entitled The Next Rembrandt, it was something of a tease to the art world. It wasn't a long lost painting but a new artwork generated by a computer that had analysed thousands of works by the 17th-century Dutch artist Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn.
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An interesting topic! I think this will be a tough question but for the current AI tech I will be more inclined to saying no. The reason is AI learns from experience and finds pattern from the training data. They just basically copy other artists' ideas. You may say human is the same. But AI has a systematic way of copying from experience, but humans do not (at least now since we dont fully understand our brain). So probably copyrights are currently not necessary for robots.
I really think otherwise
can you say the same for a camera taking a picture? The owner of the computer should be able to gain credit...but not the robot itself...don't think we are there yet....next thing you know my printer will have rights....