人工智能生成内容可版权性的判断路径

On the Judging Path to the Nature of Copyright of Artificial Intelligence Products

在“人工智能生成物是否构成作品”的两例案件中,法院按照相似的判断路径,给出了截然不同的判决,体现了人工智能(AI)生成内容可版权性带给实务界的困扰。在现有的法律框架内,人工智能仍属于法律上的客体。人工智能生成物是否构成作品,首先应当以客观标准判断其是否具有独创性,若其是“独立完成”并符合“最低限度的创作性”,该作品就具有独创性;其次判断其是否属于人的智力成果,若人的创作对内容生成起到了决定性的贡献,人工智能在创作过程中仅作为创作辅助工具,则生成内容应当属于人的智力成果。具有独创性且属于人的智力成果的人工智能生成内容,则应当认定为著作权法意义上的作品。人工智能生成作品的著作权(版权)归属既可以考虑法人作品模式,也可以选择合同约定模式。

In the two cases of“whether artificial intelligence products constitute works”,the court has made different sentences according to the similar judging path,which reflects the perplexity whichis caused by the nature of copyright of AI products in the practical field.Within the existing legal framework,artificial intelligence is still a legal object.As for whether an artificial intelligence product constitutes a work,it should be firstly judged according to objective criteria whether ithas originality.If it is“independently completed”and conforms with the“minimum creativeness”,such a work has originality.Secondly,it should be judged whether it is human intellectual achievement.If human creation makes a decisive contribution to content generation and artificial intelligence only plays the role of an auxiliary means during the process of creation,the generated content should belong to the achievement of human intelligence.AI-generated content with originality and intellectual achievement should be recognized as works in the sense of copyright law.The copyright ownership of artificial intelligence-generated works can either be considered as the legal person work model or the contractual agreement model.