The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's Creatives

Handbook on Originality in Copyright: Cases and Materials eds., Dr. Indranath Gupta and Others. ©Springer, 2023, May 14.

24 Pages Posted: 13 Oct 2022 Last revised: 15 May 2023

Date Written: May 16, 2022

Abstract

Long after the United States' Supreme court Feist decision, the threshold for conceptualizing copyright originality is still unfolding. The predominant doctrines are sweat of the brow, selective creation, and an author's intellectual creation. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning tools have changed the human creative landscape. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) couched its copyright law in a hybridized regime and positioned it to enhance the creativity of creators. The KSA law included the selective creativity, the author's intellectual creation, and sweat of the brow approach in conceptualizing copyright originality. This chapter analyzes and explores the KSA copyright creative theories, regimes, and its socioeconomic impact in the digital economy. The chapter further seeks to create a path for further de-escalating the copyright originality threshold to focus on human creators and for effective developmental growth.

Suggested Citation

Andrews, Dr. Samuel Samiái, The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's Creatives (May 16, 2022). Handbook on Originality in Copyright: Cases and Materials eds., Dr. Indranath Gupta and Others. ©Springer, 2023, May 14., Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4227049

Dr. Samuel Samiái Andrews (Contact Author)

Al Yamamah University ( email )

7010, King Fahd Road
Al Qirawan
Riyadh, 13541
Saudi Arabia

HOME PAGE: http://https://yu.edu.sa/

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