The Legal Challenges of Artificial Intelligence in Copyright and Data protection Laws in Uganda
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2025-05-27
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Uganda Christian University
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The study investigated, mined, analyzed and educates the legal Challenges that artificial intelligence (AI) has posed on copyright and data protection laws in Uganda. The study based on the objective; To assess the adequacy of Uganda’s Copyright and Data Protection law in addressing AI-generated works. Data was collected between April and May 2025 using the sample strategy with questionnaire as the survey design to the stake holders in the Copyright and data protection field. The study finds that there is a high level of copyright infringement and data privacy breaches by Artificial Intelligence accompanied by a lower observance of the copyright and data protection laws by Artificial Intelligence Systems owners. The study addresses the human authorship issue that is negatively criticized and undermined by the Artificial Intelligence systems developers and generative AI users. The Liability concerns in AI copyright infringement issues have been ratified by the study identifying who is liable when AI infringes on copyright. The study explores the legal arguments brought about in litigation whether fair use is a defence to AI infringement of copyright and whether transformed generative AI works constitute to derivative works. The study is an education of AI-generated challenge to interpretation of the literal meaning of the traditional copyright principles. The study reviews all related and relevant literature about copyright law identifying the bridge between Generative AI and copyright law. The study is guide to the law reform commission, the parliament of Uganda and academic institutions in understanding in the challenges that Artificial Intelligence evolution is posing to copyright and data protection laws. The study discovered ignorance in the Ugandan populace about copyright and data protection law principles and Artificial Intelligence, therefore the study poses a challenge to the government bodies such as the Uganda Registration Service Bureau and the Uganda Communications Commission to educating the copyright law stake holders about Artificial Intelligence and Copyright and Data Protection. The study examines ethical considerations under the Data Protection laws obligating user consent and data collection by generative AI