From Animals to Artificial Intelligence: Non-Human Beings’ Intellectual Property Protection by “Judicial Capacity for Copyrights”

Since artificial intelligence has completed the process from auxiliary tool of human creation to independent completion works with formal appearance, it brought many legal issues that have caused widespread controversy. Among them, whether qualification subject and products should be protected by law is focus problem. In circle, involvement theme “non-anthropocentrism” can traced back debate between animal personality non-human ecological rights. The Naruto v. Slater Monkey selfie case Pigcasso light people’s debating about copyright, provides a new research perspective reinvigorates on copyright. By means analogy animals, humans intelligence, this paper explores rationality, necessity feasibility investing beings quasi-legal in special subdivision field law—copyright. Quasi-legal narrow animals are endowed judicial capacity for copyrights limited act. At same time, designers breeders government so serve as quasi-guardian animals. addition, general super completely act, system terminated. perfectly compatible existing framework development. It protects ownerless intellectual property free lift, thereby helping avoid tragedy commons. Furthermore, solves problem cannot independently safeguard their rights forward-looking theoretical model construction