인공지능에 의해 작성된 작성물에 대한 저작권법적 고찰

A global go-player Se-dol Lee and Google ‘AlphaGo’ played the game of go of the century. Through this, people are interested in artificial Intelligence. The artificial intelligence is very important factor in the fourth industrial revolution. The artificial intelligence can be divided into ‘weak artificial intelligence’, ‘strong artificial intelligence’ and ‘super artificial intelligence’. “Deep Learning” is one of the technology of artificial intelligence, which is operated through big data. This technology is used in various fields. For example, it can write articles, draw pictures, diagnose illnesses, manage schedules and recognize faces. Sometimes artificial intelligence can show it’s competence as a specialist in a particular fields. Therefore, works of artificial intelligence arise of legal issues of copyright law. The important issues are whether this work is a copyrighted work and whether artificial intelligence can be a copyright holder. Under the current Korean Copyright Act, artificial intelligences are not natural or legal persons, who can create works. Also, artificial intelligences cannot be a copyright holders under the current Korean Copyright Act as well as the works subject re written by artificial intelligences is only artificial intelligences, because the interventions of artificial intelligences‘s users are minimized. I think that works of artificial intelligences cannot be copyrighted works and also artificial intelligence cannot be the copyright holders at all under the current Korean Copyright Act. In addition, it has to consider, whether the works of artificial intelligence can be the database under the current Korean Copyright Act. In this article, it is researched how could be protected the works of artificial intelligences under the Copyright Act and also it is reviewed international trends about that. Through this, it is intended to arrive at a conclusion about the improvement to legal system of artificial intelligence works, etc.