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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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SpicyIP Weekly Review (September 13-19)

SpicyIP

Further details, including the link for registration, are provided in the post here. The deadline for registration for the webinar is September 20, 2021. The deadline for registration for the webinar is September 20, 2021. Further details, including the link for registration, are provided in the post here.

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Generative AI and Copyright – Some Recent Denials and Unanswered Questions

Intellectual Property Law Blog

Copyright Office’s denial of a copyright application for a work created using generative AI due to lack of human authorship ( Thaler v. Howell affirmed, “[i]n the absence of any human involvement in the creation of the work, the clear and straightforward answer is the one given by the Register: No.” Perlmutter, et.

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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

The application stated that the Work had been autonomously created by a computer algorithm running on a machine. Registration was sought as a work-for-hire to the owner of the Creativity Machine. In 2019, the Copyright Office rejected the application, holding that human authorship is necessary to support a copyright claim.

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Novex Communications Pvt. Ltd. v. DXC Technology Private Limited – Summarising the judgment (Part I)

SpicyIP

Registration of Copyright society.— (1) Lemon Tree Hotels Limited (2019 SCC Online Del 6568). I intend to critically analyse this judgment. In the first post, I shall summarise the judgment. In the subsequent posts, I shall critically analyse the judgment. paragraphs 39, 42). Section 34.

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Industrial Design under The Design Act, 2000

IP and Legal Filings

It is used to classify goods for the purposes of the registration of industrial designs which further helps in design searches. Under the previous law, the Design registration was granted only for the visual appearance of an article which included shape, configuration pattern, and ornamentation whether in 2 or 3 dimensions.

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Critical Analysis on Intellectual Property Rights and its components.

IIPRD

Also, it is really important to renew the registration because there is a limit to registration. It is basically giving a right to the original creator, so that no one uses that work. This is basically for literary and artistic work. Sri Sri Ganesh Productions, AIRONLINE 2019 DEL 1017. [2] 2] Novartis v.