When an AI system produces a musical composition or any artistic work, can that output be protected under intellectual property law? In my Intellectual Property Law classes, I often tell students that intellectual property is an expression of what St. John Paul II described as man’s “original solitude.” As artificial intelligence increasingly generates creative outputs without direct human involvement, I find myself asking: where does human creativity begin and end? If such works receive the same intellectual property protection as human creations, market forces may gradually favor artificial production over human creativity. Ultimately, the true subject of intellectual property law is not the machine but the human person.