{"id":680,"date":"2018-09-04T18:53:59","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T18:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mplegal.services\/?p=680"},"modified":"2019-01-01T18:59:49","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T18:59:49","slug":"new-paper-legal-personality-to-certain-computer-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mplegal.services\/?p=680","title":{"rendered":"New paper, legal personality to (certain) computer programs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Vagelis Papakonstantinou and Paul de Hert co-authored an article on &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0267364918302309\">Structuring modern life running on software. Recognizing (some) computer programs as new \u201c<\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0267364918302309\">digital persons<\/a><\/em>\u201d, published in the, 200th anniversary issue, of the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/journal\/computer-law-and-security-review\"> Computer Law &amp; Security Review.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Abstract<\/em><\/strong>: <em>Saudi Arabia grants\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/topics\/social-sciences\/nationality\"><em>nationality<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0to an AI\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/topics\/social-sciences\/industrial-robots\"><em>robot<\/em><\/a><em>; the first \u201cclash of robots\u201d took place in Japan; and, Bill Gates suggests that robots start paying taxes. We believe that these developments justify new legal fiction interventions. Software has long now exceeded the\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/topics\/computer-science\/intellectual-property\"><em>intellectual property<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0boundaries. It is no longer merely property; it has assumed life of its own. It does not matter that such life is imaginary today. Legal persons were brought to life through legal fiction intervention that was based on much less motivation \u2013 merely the human incentive for profit. Software is certainly connected today with profit, given that the world&#8217;s most valued corporations are\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/topics\/computer-science\/software-company\"><em>software companies<\/em><\/a><em>. However, it has moved much further than that, to assume in many ways\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/topics\/computer-science\/artificial-life\"><em>artificial life<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0of its own. We think that it is time that the dichotomy between natural and legal persons, that has served humanity so well over the past centuries, now be trisected: A new, digital person, ought to be added to it.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vagelis Papakonstantinou and Paul de Hert co-authored an article on &#8220;Structuring modern life running on software. Recognizing (some) computer programs as new \u201cdigital persons\u201d, published in the, 200th anniversary issue, of the Computer Law &amp; Security Review. Abstract: Saudi Arabia grants\u00a0nationality\u00a0to an AI\u00a0robot; the first \u201cclash of robots\u201d took place in Japan; and, Bill Gates &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mplegal.services\/?p=680\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New paper, legal personality to (certain) computer programs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[77,78],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications","tag-computer-programs","tag-digital-person"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mplegal.services\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mplegal.services\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mplegal.services\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mplegal.services\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mplegal.services\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mplegal.services\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":681,"href":"http:\/\/mplegal.services\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions\/681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mplegal.services\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mplegal.services\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mplegal.services\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}