JOUR 601 Lecture Notes - Lecture 80: Marine Mammal Protection Act, The Employer
4 Sep 2020
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Science fiction authors have let us see a future where robots and artificial intelligence are creative things that can act as beings or entitled with similar human intellectual property rights. Mechanical generation of creative work is an idea that has previously explored, especially in satire. Intellectual property rights of non-human creators aren"t completely new. The courts have said that all animals, because they aren"t human, lack standing under our. If congress wants to grant non-human creators standing to sue for this, it could. But, without the explicit right, animals don"t have the chance to sue for infringement. This is the same when considering the fact they don"t have explicit rights to sue under the. The situation with this happened when a dolphin wasn"t given standing to sue about it being transferred from an aquarium to the department of the navy.
