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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>Ugandan authors\/writers have called for a law on Artificial Intelligence saying that the copyright law only deals with individuals, not machines.<\/p>\n

In recent years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has made significant strides in revolutionizing the way people interact with technology and the latest example is ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer), a tool that allows users to enter written prompts to receive human-like responses in text format.<\/p>\n

While commemorating World Book and copyright day on Tuesday, Mr Charles Lubogo, the winner for best individual legal depositor for the year 2023, said that there is a need for a law that can deal with AI to protect the intellectual property of the authors.<\/p>\n

\u201cAuthors have to embrace the future, but we have the challenge of AI in terms of copyright because it is going to compete with us. It\u2019s going to be a strong aid in the sense that it will help us to write better, achieve our goals, and move faster but it will be a lazy \u2018man tool for those who don\u2019t want to write,\u201d he said<\/p>\n

The Copyright and Neighbouring Rights Act 2006, states that it is unlawful to use copyrighted musical work without the copyright owner\u2019s consent.<\/p>\n

According to Uganda Registration Service Bureau (URSB), copyright law grants authors, artists and other creators protection for their literary and artistic creations, generally referred to as \u201cworks.\u201d<\/p>\n

The works protected by the law include literary and artistic works such as novels, poems, plays and songs among others.<\/p>\n

Mr Lubogo noted that the future of writing is changing because copyright is going to be owned by the machine rather than the individual after 55 years.<\/p>\n

“The challenge for copyright law is that it deals with the individual 55 years after they are dead,” he said<\/p>\n

He added: ” We have issues with the law because right now you can generate a book on ChatGBT, will that book be owned by an individual or AI? That is the question I paused that question in my book, ‘The Feature Lawyer\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Adonia Katungisa, Director National Library of Uganda urged Ugandans to embrace the reading culture saying that it\u2019s the only way to know what is happening.<\/p>\n

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