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Generative AI and creativity: A quick analysis of US and Canadian copyright registrations for artistic works

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Against that background, this blog post provides some tentative musings on the impact of text-to-image generators on human artistic creativity by analysing recent US and Canadian copyright registrations for artistic works. For simplicity, I will label this ‘commercial significant artistic creativity’.

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Protecting Fashion or Stifling Innovation

IIPRD

It is here that the distinction between ‘design’ in the Designs Act and ‘artistic work’ in the Copyright Act becomes relevant. This is evidenced as an artistic work enjoys protection throughout the life of the author plus sixty years; whereas a design only enjoys protection for 10 years from registration.

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IPR infringement in yellow-and-blue logo: Lidl wins High Court dispute against Tesco

The IPKat

Copyright The Court also established that Lidl’s mark was protected by copyright as an original artistic work under Section 4 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Tesco also claimed that Lidl had applied to register the latter as a trade mark in bad faith.

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Protecting Software Innovation in India

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) establishes the entitlement to enjoy the protection of moral and material interests arising from scientific, literary, or artistic creations. This applies to literary, dramatic, musical, artistic works, computer programs, cinematograph films, and sound recordings.

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The Choice Of Law Debate In Copyright Infringement

IP and Legal Filings

The theory of Territoriality states that since disputes relating to the registration and validity of intellectual property rights are typically considered to fall under the exclusive jurisdiction of the State in which such registration was applied for, the choice of law should favour that State. Will there be no remedy at all?