Asst. Prof. K. Panneerselvam, Government Law College, Vellore ABSTRACT The emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems capable of producing text, images, music, and code has destabilized the foundational assumptions of copyright law, which has historically presumed a human author as the source of original expression. This paper critically examines the authorship and ownership problem posed by generative AI, tracing how legal doctrines built around human creativity,...