1 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: THE CONFLICTING ISSUES OF CREATIVE OWNERSHIP By Tami Koroye INTRODUCTION The 21 st century has seen the emergence of technological innovations that render the erstwhile Intellectual Property (IP) systems seemingly inept in protecting and regulating intellectual property rights. 1 Artificial Intelligence (AI) has established itself as a frontier of innovation with over a $250 million market opportunity. 2 With the advent of the AI, the lines of creative ownership rights attributed to the creators of intellectual works are blurred, due to the essential nature of the technology itself. 3 The question of who then is attributed authorship of the work produced by AI arises. 4 The goal of this essay is to answer the enquiry of ownership of creative works by AI and the seemingly disruption of the notion of romantic authorship of intellectual creations. 5 To answer this question, this work shall examine the intellectual property laws of the European Union (EU), the United Kingdom (UK), United States of America (USA) and the Republic of China; these are technological advanced countries with the recognition of AI and are members of international treaties recognizing IP rights. 1 Kenneth Einar Himma , ‘The Justification of Intellectual Property: Contemporary Philosophical Disputes ’, 2006, UC Berkeley Recent Work https://escholarship.org/uc/item/20h4p5sj , accessed 7 th December 2019. 2 Peter Cowan and Jim Hinton, ‘Intellectual property and artificial intelligence: what does the future hold? (IAM Media, March 2018) < https://www.bereskinparr.com/files/file/IAM88_AI-and-IP_Jim%20Hinton.pdf>, accessed 10 December 2019. 3 Katharine Stephens and Toby Bond, Artificial Intelligence Navigating the IP Challenges, (Practical Law, July 2018) < https://www.twobirds.com/~/media/pdfs/ai--navigating-the-ip-challenges-plc-magazine-june- 2018.pdf?la=en&hash=1A69268C76EC74DED0E68F063C09B7152A9D96CF > accessed 10 th December 2019 4 Eleonora Rosati , ‘Conference report: “Can robots invent and create? A dialogue between Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property’, (Fide Fundacion, Mar 28, 2019) < https://www.fidefundacion.es/attachment/1509086/ > accessed 10 th December 2019 5 Margot E. Kaminski , ‘Authorship, Disrupted: AI Authors in Copyright and First Amendment Law’, (2017) 51 UC Davis, 589