Gianmaria Ajani - Böcker

Analyzes the processes of privatization and entrepreneurial formation by countries and subjects, and points out the different features they acquire in various post-socialist countries through an interdisciplinary and historico-comparative approach.

topology, since the set of nodes with highest degree represents the main core of thetaxonomywith the shortestaveragedistance-concepts.The domainofmul- system and multi-lingual ontologies o?ers the opportunity to integrate arti?cial intelligence not only with legal theory,but also with further, more empirical and comparative, legal studies. The relation of legal ontologies, multi-agent systems, and distributed n- works, is only one, albeit important, among many other examples of research in AI and law. The aim of the AICOL workshops is thus to o?er e?ective support for the exchange of knowledge and methodological approaches between scholars from di?erent scienti?c ?elds, by highlighting their similarities and di?erences. The comparison of multiple formal approaches to the law-such as logical m- els, cognitive theories, argumentation frameworks, graph theory, game theory, as well as opposite perspectives like the internal and the external viewpoints- should stress possible convergences, as for instance in the realms of conc- tual structures, argumentation schemes, emergent behaviors,learning evolution, adaptation, and simulation.WewouldliketothanktheAICOLreviewersandtheOrganizingCommittees oftheJURIX2009andIVR2009conferences.WewouldalsoliketothankAlfred Hofmann for being so sensitive to the main AICOL idea. The following projects allowed the conception and organization of the research workshops, and the edition of this ?rst volume: CSO-2008-05536-SOCI, TSI-020110-2009-39, TSI- 020110-2009-374, TSI-020501-2008-131, TSI-020100-2008-134, and JLS-28002- CFP-CJ-08.

The advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as an “autonomous author” urges the law to rethink authorship, originality, creativity. AI-generated artworks are in search of an author because current copyright laws offer as a solution only public domain or fragile regulatory mechanisms. During the 20th century visual artists have been posing persistent challenges to the law world: Conceptual Art favoured legal mechanisms alternative to copyright law. The case of AI-art is, however, different: for the first time the artworld is discovering the prospective of an art without human authors.Rather than preserving the status quo in the law world, policy makers should consider a reformative conception of AI in copyright law and take inspiration from innovative theories in the field of robot law, where new frames for a legal personhood of artificial agents are proposed.This would have a spill-over effect also on copyright regulations.