From music tracks to Google maps: Who owns computer-generated works?

From Music Tracks to Google Maps: Who Owns Computer-generated Works?

Increasingly the digital content used in everyday life has little or no human intervention in its creation. Typically, when such content is delivered to consumers it comes with attached claims of copyright. However, depending on the jurisdiction, approaches to ownership of computer-generated works vary from legislated to uncertain. In this paper we look at the various approaches taken by the co...

Computer-Generated Music

While music transcends its time, it eagerly adopts the current technology. Musicians, like anyone else, use new instruments and procedures to reach their desired goals. In the age of computers, this is producing some fascinating results. C omputer music has existed as a formal application of computer science for at least 35 years. The idea has existed much longer. Ada Lovelace suggested the use...

Who Owns Intelligence?

Who owns 'culture'?1

No one owns the concept 'culture'. Anthropology's long-standing proprietary claim on the concept rests on three sorts of contentions none of which are convincing. Anthropology's overwhelmingly interpretive approaches to cultural materials have led to a preoccupation with the details of cultural materials at the expense of formulating explanatory theories. This has, among other things, rendered ...

Who Owns Information? From Privacy to Public Access