Lessons for Nigeria: Determining Authorship and Inventorship of Artificial Intelligence Generated Works

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has gained widespread momentum in today’s tech-savvy world. AI is now capable of creating copyright works and inventions without human intervention. Such AI-created challenge the frontiers intellectual property rights (IPR), particularly those on patents copyright. The extant patent laws Nigeria (Copyright Act, 1988, Patent 1970) were drafted when authorship inventorship not a primary consideration. international legal framework IPR also addressed this issue conclusively. Using doctrinal method research, paper examines poses to under laws. It takes peek into advanced jurisdictions which have had opportunity address these issues, draw lessons for where National Centre Robotics recently been established issues are envisaged arise as carries out its objectives. This finds that Nigeria, an system cannot be designated author or inventor. Considering advancement technology, will exclude from protection Nigeria. While drawing other jurisdictions, recommends responsive regulation technology through legislative amendment accommodates systems authors inventors with presumption law allows ownership, rights, liabilities borne by owners such systems.