Enviro News Asia, Shah Alam – Universitas Pembangunan Nasional “Veteran” Jakarta (UPNVJ) has advanced its internationalization agenda through the participation of Faculty of Law lecturer Rianda Dirkareshza, S.H., M.H., in a Visiting Global Lecture program at Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Malaysia, delivering a lecture on intellectual property law, copyright, and the legal implications of Generative Artificial Intelligence.
Rianda presented his published research titled “Generative AI Is Not a Mere Tool: Revisiting Indonesian Copyright Law,” which appears in The Journal of World Intellectual Property. The study examines how advances in Generative AI challenge Indonesia’s copyright regime, particularly as AI systems become increasingly capable of autonomously producing creative works and disrupting conventional concepts of authorship.
Rianda argued that Generative AI can no longer be treated as merely a tool assisting human creativity. Powered by machine learning, AI systems can now independently generate creative expressions, raising fundamental questions about who can be legally recognized as an author under existing copyright frameworks.
The research finds that Indonesia’s predominantly human-centric copyright regime under Law No. 28 of 2014 on Copyright has yet to fully accommodate AI-generated works, potentially creating a legal vacuum in which such works meet the criteria for copyright protection but lack a legally recognizable author or rights holder.
As a possible solution, the study proposes a sui generis legal regime for AI-generated works, under which such works would enter the public domain upon creation while attribution to the generating AI system remains mandatory, contributing to future policy development and reform of Indonesia’s copyright framework.
The session drew around 20 UiTM law students and generated lively discussion on regulatory challenges, authorship concepts, and comparative legal approaches adopted by Indonesia and Malaysia in responding to Generative AI technologies, with several students already familiar with AI-related developments in Indonesia.
UPNVJ Rector Prof. Dr. Anter Venus said international academic engagements are an integral component of the university’s transformation toward becoming a more adaptive, impactful, and globally competitive institution, advancing scholarly ideas relevant to public policy, scientific knowledge, and legal governance in the AI era. (www.upnvj.ac.id)
