AI Has Emerged as a New Actor Beyond Tool.
But Law Still Remains Human-Centered.

Paper: "Discussing Music Authorship in the Generative AI Era: Co-Creation in K-Pop and the Shift of Agency" (Ko Yun-hwa, 2025). The paper analyzes how the myth of "the lone creative genius" — long-accepted as the basis of artistic creation — is deconstructed and reconstructed at a technological inflection point, using K-pop''s unique industrial structure as a lens to ask the philosophical and institutional question "who is the author?" Theoretical framework: Roland Barthes'' "Death of the Author" + Michel Foucault''s "Author-Function" — authorship is not a fixed subject''s attribute but an institutional device operating within discourse and systems; creative works acquire meaning not in the author''s intention but in reader reception and social context. K-pop as distributed authorship laboratory: K-pop production is already based on "multiple authorship" not "single author" — overseas composer demos, internal director revisions, artist contributions, label direction, and fan reception all constitute the work. AI''s entry adds another layer: algorithmic co-creation where the AI''s statistical patterns interact with human direction and fan interpretation. Key finding: applying conventional copyright frameworks to K-pop + AI production reveals fundamental inadequacies — when a song is co-created by foreign composers, Korean producers, AI systems, and the artist''s performance interpretation, attributing copyright to any single party misrepresents the actual creative process. The "algorithmic authorship" question: AI can produce music indistinguishable from human composition — but its "authorship" is statistical pattern recombination rather than intention-driven expression; whether this distinction matters legally remains contested. The paper''s policy recommendation: rather than trying to fit AI-human co-creation into existing author-centric copyright frameworks, new legal structures acknowledging creative networks (human + human + AI + fan community) as joint authorship entities may better reflect 21st century creative reality.