Artificial intelligence has entered into the sphere of creativity and ingenuity. Recent headlines refer to paintings produced by machines, music performed or composed by algorithms or drugs discovered by computer programs. This paper discusses the possible implications of the development and adoption of this new technology in the intellectual property framework and presents the opinions expressed by practitioners and legal scholars in recent publications. The literature review, although not intended to be exhaustive, reveals a series of questions that call for further reflection. These concern the protection of artificial intelligence by intellectual property, the use of data to feed algorithms, the protection of the results generated by intelligent machines as well as the relationship between ethical requirements of transparency and explainability and the interests of rights holders. The full report at https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/bitstream/JRC119102/intelle... -- Guido Assoc Prof Guido Noto La Diega, PhD FHEA Associate Professor of Intellectual Property and Privacy Law @StirLaw <https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/1500494> Visiting Prof @unimc | Director @italiot | Fellow @nexacenter & @ninsorig University of Stirling, Pathfoot Building, A20, Stirling, FK9 4LA, UK guidonotoladiega@gmail.com +44(0)1786467555 You can access my papers on SSRN <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1794950>, Academia.edu <http://stir.academia.edu/GuidoNotoLaDiegaPhD> and ResearchGate <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Guido_Noto_La_Diega>. This email and any attachment hereto are strictly confidential and are exclusively intended for the person above identified. Without the intended recipient’s entitlement, use, copy, and dissemination of this email are prohibited. If you have received it in error, please advise me immediately by telephone and return the documents received to the above address, deleting the files. Thank you. Sometimes I send emails at odd hours. This is just for my convenience, so please reply at yours.