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Who Is the Artificial Author?

  • Tom LebrunEmail author
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Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 10233)

Abstract

This paper focuses on the potential receptions of literary artworks produced by or with the help of artificial intelligence on a legal and literary point of view. We take into account the Canadian legal notion of originality to postulate that we should now distinguish authority from auctoriality.

Keywords

Authorship Copyright Literature Auctoriality Formalism 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Université LavalQuebec CityCanada

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