Synthetic Creativity and Legal Reality: Copyright Implications in the Age of Generative AI

Overview

This project examines the legal challenges posed by generative artificial intelligence and deepfake technologies to existing copyright and personality rights frameworks. As AI systems increasingly generate text, images, music, and synthetic voices comparable to human creativity, traditional legal concepts of authorship, originality, liability, and infringement face significant disruption.

The research adopts a doctrinal, comparative, and policy-oriented approach to analyze how copyright law and moral rights should respond to machine-generated content and identity manipulation. With a focus on the UAE legal system and international best practices, the project aims to develop regulatory guidance for managing synthetic media. Key outputs include peer-reviewed journal articles, a conference paper on platform liability, and policy-oriented publications that provide actionable recommendations for regulators, developers, and digital platforms.