Playing the System

Abstract

In the first part of the study, we summarize the existing types of copyright bots. In the second part, we present the current state of legal research on the implementation of copyright bots and our own analysis which focuses on the Czech Supreme Court’s decision concerning copyright bots. The core of this paper concerns the impact of copyright bots on the work of sampling musicians and how the creativity of musicians is shaped by their struggle to avoid detection of sampled music by bots in the online environment.