IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/iip/wpaper/27.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Intellectual Property and Creative Machines

Author

Listed:
  • Gaétan de Rassenfosse

    (Ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne)

  • Adam Jaffe

    (Brandeis University)

  • Joal Waldfogel

    (University of Minnesota)

Abstract

The arrival of creative machines—software capable of producing human-like creative content—has triggered a series of legal challenges about intellectual property. The outcome of these legal challenges will shape the future of the creative industry in ways that could enhance or jeopardize welfare. Policymakers are already tasked with creating regulations for a post-generative AI creative industry. Economics may offer valuable insights, and this paper is our attempt to contribute to the discussion. We identify the main economic issues and propose a framework and some tools for thinking about them.

Suggested Citation

  • Gaétan de Rassenfosse & Adam Jaffe & Joal Waldfogel, 2024. "Intellectual Property and Creative Machines," Working Papers 27, Chair of Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy.
    • Handle: RePEc:iip:wpaper:27
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://cdm-repec.epfl.ch/iip-wpaper/WP27.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    generative AI; machine learning; copyright; fair use;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • O34 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital
    • K20 - Law and Economics - - Regulation and Business Law - - - General

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:iip:wpaper:27. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Gaétan de Rassenfosse (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://stip.epfl.ch/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.