(Ebook) Legal Personhood of Artificial Intelligence by Isaac Christopher Lubogo ISBN 9789913633253, 9913633257

(Ebook) Legal Personhood of Artificial Intelligence by Isaac Christopher Lubogo ISBN 9789913633253, 9913633257

''With the rise of AI, artistic creation of content is no longer a purely human
enterprise. Currently works made by AI are considered to be computer assisted or
aided works and copyright/patent right is vested in the human being who uses Al as
a tool. However, questions have arisen as who owns the copyright/patent right in
AI generated works where there is no human input. Is it the inventor of the AI? Or might the AI be given a
certain degree of legal subject status and thus have its own rights?. Section 4 of the Copyrights and neighboring Rights Act, 20061
provides that
the author of any work specified in section 5 shall have a right of protection of the
work, where work is original and is reduced to material form in whatever method
irrespective of quality of the work or the purpose for which it is created.  Most
of the literature on whether AI can own intellectual property rights and how IP law
can be amended to carter for AI is from developed countries like US & UK. There
is an existing gap in literature from developing countries like Uganda, which,
although they are not experiencing rapid technological developments in AI, will
nevertheless be affected by AI's disruptiveness especially to their legal
regime especially intellectual property. This research seeks to cover this gap by
addressing how Uganda’s IP law can be updated to carter for AI-generated works.
This research will be done while taking into account Uganda.