Magda Cocco is featured in a recent Observador article exploring the impact of artificial intelligence on the creation of humour, within a broader debate on the creative and legal limits of these tools.

In the article, the lawyer clarifies the legal framework applicable to AI-generated content, stressing that protection depends on human intervention in the creative process: “When there is sufficient creative human intervention — for example, selection, organisation, aesthetic direction, substantial editing — a protected work may exist, belonging to the respective human author.”

The piece brings together contributions from professionals across the creative and technological fields and highlights one of the key issues in this area: the distinction between automated creation and creation involving meaningful human intervention, which remains decisive for copyright purposes.

Read the full article here.