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Uffizi museum sues Jean Paul Gaultier over unauthorized reproduction of Botticelli’s Venus on fashion garments

The IPKat

Not a copyright dispute … and the non-role of Article 14 of the DSM Directive In sum: the CHC provides a way to control for-profit reproductions of Italian cultural heritage, irrespective of their copyright status (it is in any case worth recalling that under Italian copyright law moral rights protection is … perpetual).

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NFTs: promisingly transformational, yet fraught with IP pitfalls – Part I

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Caveat Emptor The common notion that acquiring ownership of an NFT representing a work in which copyright subsists equates to owning the copyright to the underlying work is clearly false. For instance, CrypToadz is a prominent CC0 NFT project wherein the artwork related to the NFT is in the public domain.

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AI and copyright in 2022

Kluwer Copyright Blog

AI-generated works have won awards: The Crow , an “AI-made” film won the Jury Award at the Cannes Short Film Festival and the story of an AI artwork winning the Colorado State Fair’s annual art competition was reported in The New York Times. Very few jurisdictions expressly provide for copyright in computer-generated works.

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Unrequited love at the times of French maisons: the Museum vs Le Musée

Kluwer Copyright Blog

We have an artwork, displayed in a museum and which is in the public domain. Thus, not only it is for the authority taking care of the artwork (e.g. On the other hand, given that these artworks have already fallen in the public domain, in such a scenario there is no room for copyright to apply. Second, Art.

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The Parody Exception: Revisiting the Case for a Distinct Pastiche Exception

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Presently, a new reference from the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) asks the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) for vital interpretive guidance concerning the parody exception within copyright law. This approach, initially applied to cultural politics by Dentith, can be similarly adopted within copyright law.

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[Guest post] Litigation commenced against the developers of AI image generation software

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While at this stage the particulars of Getty’s claim are unavailable, their press release states that Stability AI “unlawfully copied and processed millions of images protected by copyright and the associated metadata owned or represented by Getty Images”.