Reconfiguring Identity, Ownership, and Legal Framework in the Digital World

Humankind's lived reality of an experience heavily mediated by Generative AI and the digital realm calls for a critical reconfiguration of existing social modes of being as well as legal contracts and regulations. The chapter attempts to address significant challenges presented by AI and AI-generated content specifically within literary creation in terms of copyright and ownership as well as legal systems pertaining to digital personhood and identity. A reworking of the traditional understanding of authorship and creativity also traces the inadequacy of existing global legal frameworks, largely anthropocentric in nature, grappling with the dilemma of attributing ownership and accountability for AI-generated creative content and prosecution of AI entities. The chapter also explores digital personhood with specific focus on the idea of digital necromancy and sophisticated AI crime as a threat to the world at large. The aim is to raise questions that could foster dialogue and initiate some form of policy change in the aforementioned realms.