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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In addition to raising questions about ownership of outputs , infringement in training , and the future of copyright as a policy tool to encourage creativity , economists are in the early stages of analysing the effects of these technologies on human creativity.

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Conundrum Involving The Ownership Of The Work Created By Ai

IP and Legal Filings

Introduction Any literally or artistic work that is original and creative i.e.; not copied from anywhere by the owner is protected under Copyright Act, 1957. Thus, most would agree that AI-created work does not have the component of originality. Issues There are many issues in granting ownership to AI.

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Ownership of Copyrights Patents and Trademarks are Created by Employees and Independent Contractors

IP and Legal Filings

Copyright: The copyright protection is given by Indian Law under The Copyright Act, 1957, supported through Copyright Rules, 2018. In early 2012, there has been substantial amendments to the Act, copyright protection involves dramatic, musical, any original piece of literary work including cinematography films, etc.

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St. Art Foundation v. Acko General Insurance: Decoding Street Art, Fair use and Moral rights

SpicyIP

Acko General Insurance , the Delhi High Court is faced with the opportunity to elaborate whether and how street art in general is subject to the Copyright Act, the scope of ‘artistic work’ under Sec. 52(1)(t) and ‘moral rights’ of the author in such work. 13(1) of being ‘original artistic work’. 57 of the Act.

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Interaction Between Ai And Copyright : Who Has The Copyright In Ai?

IP and Legal Filings

Image Sources : Shutterstock] Copyrightability In Indian Context Copyright is a legal term used to describe the rights that creators have over their literary and artistic works. The NITI Aayog in its conversation paper, 2018 suggested that the usage of AI had been increasing in all areas such as medical care, schooling and so on. [8]

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US Copyright Office refuses to register AI-generated work, finding that "human authorship is a prerequisite to copyright protection"

The IPKat

AI-generated Kats The Review also rejected Thaler’s argument that AI can be an author under copyright law because the work made for hire doctrine allows for “non-human, artificial persons such as companies” to be authors. Secondly, the doctrine is about ownership, not existence of a valid copyright.

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Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Jack Daniel’s in BAD SPANIELS Case: Parody Marks Can Still Function as A Source Identifier

LexBlog IP

By way of brief background, in 2018 the District Court of Arizona found that consumers were likely to be confused as to the source of the BAD SPANIELS toy and ruled in favor of Jack Daniel’s. Grimaldi , the Second Circuit established a threshold test for artistic works that incorporate third party trademarks. [1]