[Part I] AI Text-to-Image Art: Can We Actually Protect it with the Indonesian Copyright Law?

With the comparison of computer-generated works protection between common law doctrine and civil law doctrine above, we can conclude that there’s a difference in the perspective of authorship and originality between common law doctrine and civil law doctrine. This difference is caused by the history of copyright itself, which will be another subject to uncover in another article.

In conclusion, with emphasizing the originality of the creation, the AI-text-to-image art is not eligible as a protected work under the Indonesian Copyright Law. However, with the development of technology and rapid awareness of artificial intelligence in this era, we don’t know if this doctrine will always exist as the basis for addressing this phenomenon. There will come a time when AI as a creator/originator is a common phenomenon, and a doctrine is needed for humans as the creator of such AI to be recognized as the creator of such AI-generated works — and we, as Indonesians, have to be ready for such changes.