The current copyright regulation of computer programs has its ideological origins in the 1980s. Its concept is based on the protection of literary works, and therefore on the premise that computer programs always have a “human” author. Protection is then primarily granted under the copyright of that person (the programmer).

The rapid development of AI, however, brings a substantial change to the concept of contractual relationships in this area, including open source and free software. Our colleague Josef Aujezdský examines this issue in more detail in his article, which was published in LUPA magazine (in Czech).