Intellectual Property Implications of Generative AI: Challenges to Copyright Act, 1957

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), including systems such as ChatGPT, Midjourney, and DALL-E, has transformed the process of creating literary, artistic, and technical works. These systems generate text, images, music, software code, and inventions autonomously or semiautonomously. The advanced technology has transformed the world, now we have stepped into an innovative tech-driven era. With these technologies, the creativity and productivity, a question arises that who has the ownership? The matter of authorship recognition has become a major question with the advent of new technologies. When the Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) came into existence, human beings were the true and original inventors of the particular innovation. But with the passage of time, when generative AI came into light, the claim of ‘authorship’ became a questionable subject matter. When it comes to the matter of legal protection, the person who invented the creation must be given the protection or the software who has created the content on the command of an individual. The paper analysis the implications of generative AI with special reference to Intellectual Property Rights. In addition to this, the authorship claims and IPR protection are discussed in detail in the present study along with some recommendations and suggestions in order to reform intellectual property law to accommodate AI-generated works.