Legal issues of intellectual property rights in disrupted technologies era: Chatbots and conversational computing platforms

Abstract

This paper represents the complexity of ecosystem of chatbots and related challenges of IPRs. It focuses on the analysis of legal and case law of the European Union, suggest which of the IPR instruments may be used by chatbots developers in order to ensure effective legal protection, rights transfer and etc. The Survey of the Licensing and Terms and Conditions of 20 Conversational Computing Platforms has discovered different legal possibilities to implement IPRs. This paper is organized: 1) introduction and state of art 2) legal analysis; 3) the survey of conversational computing platforms; 4) conclusions and future work.