Who is the author: the question in the age of artificial intelligence
When a system based on artificial intelligence creates material or fully determines it, the first legal question concerns authorship: does copyright arise in such material at all, and to whom does it belong? In Georgia this question is governed by the Law of Georgia on Copyright and Neighboring Rights. The law contains no separate norm on artificial intelligence, so the answer must be constructed from its foundational concepts: what is an object of copyright, when is a work deemed created, and who is deemed an author. Below we explain these concepts and show where the case of material produced by artificial intelligence creates a distinctive difficulty.