SouthViews No. 314, 6 November 2026
Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property Rights: Preserving the Sanctity of Human Creativity
By Kishore Singh
Rapidly developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) is bringing human creativity into the virtual realm. This has far-reaching repercussions on intellectual property rights. Even as digital technologies are becoming ubiquitous, so-called creativity by AI is becoming juxtaposed with, even overshadowing human creativity. Upsurge in digital technologies and AI owes a lot to misappropriating copyright protected works and plundering knowledge in ways which are devoid of legitimacy and fair play. Protecting intellectual property rights of natural persons in their literary and artistic works in the face of widespread misappropriation and gross violations of these rights by AI tech giants has become a global moral issue and a legal battle. This calls for taking a legal and public policy approach aimed at maintaining the system of intellectual property rights and protecting literary and artistic works created by a human mind, both as a moral claim and as a legal title. Evolving jurisprudence which seeks by and large to protect creative works of the human mind from their unauthorized use by AI tech firms provides a laudable perspective.