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is Ada, a humanoid robot with the appearance of a woman with short hair.

This drawing AI was present at the British Parliament a few days ago, let's hear it.



[I am not a living being, but I can create art.]



As AI creates creations in various fields such as paintings and music, there is a controversy over whether to recognize the copyright. Recently, a related conflict has begun in Korea.



Reporter Ahn Hee-jae reports exclusively from the controversy surrounding the composition AI 'Lee Bom', which has already received royalties.



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you enter the music genre and song length in the command input window, a light song is completed in less than 10 seconds.



It is a level that is comparable to playing in a club or cafe right now.



'Lee Bom', a composition AI developed by Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, composes music in a way that learns music theory and creates a probable melody, and completes music in seconds with just two clicks.



Users can create songs without knowing any music at all.



In the past six years, he has made 300,000 songs and sold 30,000 songs, generating 600 million won in sales.



Last year, he composed singer Hong Jin-young's song 'Love is 24 Hours' and became the copyright holder.



However, the Korea Music Copyright Association, which has paid royalties for six songs made by AI 'Bom Lee', sent an official letter in July saying that it would suddenly stop paying royalties.



The reason was that there was no legal basis for paying copyright fees, saying that it was late aware that the composition was composed by an AI, not a human.



According to the Copyright Act, a work is defined as a creation that expresses human thoughts and emotions, so AI-made works cannot be regarded as works.



[Changwook Ahn/Professor GIST (CEO of Creative Mind): Now AI is the subject of creation anyway.

It seems to be a very unfortunate fact that creative rights are not being protected.]



There are creative works, but the rights are not recognized anywhere.



Even if a third party uses it without permission for commercial purposes, it cannot be protected by the Copyright Act.



As AI creations are becoming more diverse, from drawings to music to novels and cartoons, AI developers point out that delay in recognition of creators' rights will become an obstacle to the development of the field of artificial intelligence.



(Video coverage: Kim Hak-mo, video editing: Lee Seung-jin, CG: Kim Hong-sik)