Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2020
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108750066.009
Abstract
This chapter recapitulates Professor Ricketson’s analysis in his 1992 Manges Lecture at Columbia Law School, presciently titled 'People or Machines: The Berne Convention and the Changing Concept of Authorship'. As Ricketson systematically developed the inquiry, it became clear that ‘People or Machines’ in fact meant ‘People Not Machines’. This chapter considers whether, more than twenty-five years later, subsequent technological developments warrant reconsideration of the human authorship premise underlying the Berne Convention. If that premise holds firm, the next question is whether non-human-generated outputs require some form of intellectual property protection. Any such regime, it should be noted, would fall outside the Berne Convention.
Disciplines
Intellectual Property Law | Law | Science and Technology Law
Recommended Citation
Jane C. Ginsburg,
People Not Machines: Authorship and What It Means in International Copyright Law,
Across Intellectual Property: Essays in Honour of Sam Ricketson, Graeme W. Austin, Andrew F. Christie, Andrew T. Kenyon & Megan Richardson (Eds.), Cambridge University Press
(2020).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/4291
Comments
This material has been published in "Across Intellectual Property: Essays in Honour of Sam Ricketson", edited by Graeme W. Austin, Andrew F. Christie, Andrew T. Kenyon and Megan Richardson. This version is free to view and download for private research and study only. Not for re-distribution or re-use.