1. Artificial Intelligence Creations and Ownership – Who should the Intellectual Property belong to?.-2. Fostering Innovation by Utilising Big Data: The Data Act and the Risk of Quasi-Exclusivity Reinforcing Data Lockups.-3. Legal Nature of NFTed artwork -- A comparative study.-4. Intellectual Property Regulation of Artificial Intelligence – A Matter of Time or a Step Too Far? -- 5. An Artificital Intelligence Invention Protection Model -- 6. Care robots for the elderly: legal, ethical considerations and regulatory strategies.-7. An examination of the tangible value of IP financing for companies and businesses.-8.Transformative (Bio)technologies in Knowledge Societies: Of Patents and Intellectual Commons -- .

Research in the area of intellectual property (IP) is increasingly relevant to the rapidly growing artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics industries, affecting the legal, business, manufacturing, and healthcare sectors. This contributed volume aims to develop our understanding of the legal and ethical challenges posed by artificial intelligence and robotics technologies and the appropriate intellectual property based legal and regulatory responses. It provides a philosophical and legal framework for considering concepts and principles that relate to the development and use of such technologies at the international, regional, and national levels. The legal discourse in IP concerns the ever-growing AI sector and how businesses can protect their IP and incorporate AI. Moral sentiments often take a back seat to market sentiments, even in shaping the direction of ethical business strategy. This anomaly persists despite growing interest in ethics and IP. Taking an interdisciplinary and diverse perspective, this book enriches the evolving definition and scope of IP literature by focusing on actors, products and regulation that shape the business sector. Considering the gap between theory and practice, this book bridges academic and professional knowledge in unpacking legal, ethical and governance issues in the intellectual property industry. In an effort to include as many viewpoints as possible, contributions have been gathered from diverse fields, including business, ethics, governance, law, philosophy and technology studies. This book will appeal to academics in the field of intellectual property, business ethics, AI, emerging technologies and strategic innovation, as well as practitioners and policy makers. Nadia Naim is the Associate Dean International for Law and Social Sciences at Aston University, UK. She has published extensively in intellectual property and its relationship with the finance sector, company structures, governance and international business law. She is a qualified barrister and fellow of the HEA. Chapter 2 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via Springerlink. .