Too little attention has been given to issues of identity of creators of content. That can be a dangerous oversight. American intellectual property law still looks for a human being as the creator of content and then provides elaborate mechanisms to transfer ownership and even creative credit to business organizations.
Foreign laws work for the same goal through different means.
The act of inventing requires both a conception of a complete and definite idea linked with the first reduction to practice of the thing conceived. This reduction to practice does not necessarily have to be an actual reduction to practice, but can take the form of a constructive reduction to practice through filing of a patent application. At the time of conception the inventor need not be aware that the idea is new or that it has unexpected properties associated with it. In fact there is no requirement in the law that an inventor be aware of the facts which render the conceived subject matter patentable. Further, an inventor may use the services, ideas, and aid of others in the process of perfecting his invention without losing his rights to a patent.