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Intellectual Property and Creative Machines

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  • Gaétan de Rassenfosse
  • Adam B. Jaffe
  • Joel Waldfogel

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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.

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  • Gaétan de Rassenfosse & Adam B. Jaffe & Joel Waldfogel, 2024. "Intellectual Property and Creative Machines," NBER Working Papers 32698, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    • Handle: RePEc:nbr:nberwo:32698
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    2. Sukjin Han & Kyungho Lee, 2025. "Copyright and Competition: Estimating Supply and Demand with Unstructured Data," Papers 2501.16120, arXiv.org, revised Sep 2025.

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    • O38 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Government Policy

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