Intellectual Property Rights in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI): Reconciling Individual Liberty and Public Welfare in Western and Islamic Jurisprudence
Keywords:
Intellectual Property, Copyrights, Artificial Intelligence, Ambiguous Ownership, Freedom of Information.Abstract
Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, copyright is a crucially important legal device. (Lessig, L). This study will focus on the Western critiques and development of Intellectual Property rights followed by a juxtaposition of the Muslim scholars’ perspective and pivots the notion that Islam, generally (not always), favours communal rights over the rights of one individual. The study will then discuss the role AI plays in this context, briefly glancing at Pakistan’s approach to IPRs and conclude with the position that the contemporary IP laws would be such that they would follow a quasi-utilitarian position, where the rights of the community as a whole and the individual rights would be juxtaposed and the one with the greater good/benefit would be favoured.
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