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35 Cardozo Arts & Ent. L.J. 635 (2016-2017)
Intellectual Property Rights for Hubots: On the Legal Implications of Human-like Robots as Innovators and Creators

handle is hein.journals/caelj35 and id is 691 raw text is: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS FOR HUBOTS: ON THE LEGAL IMPLICATIONS OF HUMAN-LIKE ROBOTS AS INNOVATORS AND CREATORS* AMIR. H. KHOURY' INTRODUCTION: THE CATALYST OF THE RESEARCH AND ITS UNDERLYING HYPOTHESIS .......................... 636 I.ON INTELLIGENT MACHINES ............................. 637 A. Autonomous Robots and the Emergence ofHubots ....... 640 II.THE THREE LAYERS OF THE HuBOT-IPR QUESTION ........ ..... 642 A. On the Concept of Legal Rights and Obligations for Hubots.................... ................642 B. Who Should Own Intellectual Property Subject Matter that is Generated by Hubots? ............ ....... 647 C. How the Law Needs to Treat the IP Subject Matter that is the Product of a Hubot? ..................... 654 III.WHY ROBOTS CANNOT BE CONSIDERED TO BE EQUAL TO HUMANS? ............................................. 665 CONCLUSION .......................................... ...... 668 Abstract The research in this Article provides the answer to the following question: how should the law deal with innovations and creative works that are independently created or generated by robots? Specifically, this Article focuses on the legal implications of innovation and content generated by robots with artificial intelligence, which will be referred to in this Article as Human-Like Robots (hereinafter Hubots). The position which this Article advocates for is that Permission is hereby granted for noncommercial reproduction of this Article in whole or in part for education or research purposes, including the making of multiple copies for classroom use, subject only to the condition that the name of the author, a complete citation, and this copyright notice and grant of permission be included in all copies. I Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University. 635

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