Who Owns the Algorithm’s Art? Rethinking Copyright in the Age of AI

As artificial intelligence begins to generate creative works, from paintings to poetry, South African copyright law finds itself at a crossroads. In "One (Innovation) Flew Over the Law’s Head...", Razeen and his co-author, Nate Gotora, explore the tension between traditional notions of authorship and the realities of machine-generated output.

The article critiques the human-centric framework embedded in our Copyright Act and questions whether requiring human authorship is still fit for purpose. Can AI-generated works be protected? Should they be? And how do we balance innovation, economic incentives, and the constitutional imperative of access?

This thought-provoking piece challenges readers to reconsider the very foundations of copyright, and to imagine a future where law, technology, and creativity must co-exist, or collide.