Copyright of Objects of Automatised Production

Machines are increasingly able to produce, to an extent independently, results that can be considered worthy of copyright protection. Such products are of substance that a third person without knowledge of provenance would likely attribute them to a human creator. This paper will explore the (contentious) attribution of copyright of such works under Austrian and German Law and will argue that if no other legal link can be established, it is ultimately the last interactor with the machine that should be awarded copyright under the current legal framework.