The IPKat

MARCH 18, 2023

Kat approved This book is aimed at those who are new to the subject of intellectual property. The preface reiterates that the purpose of the book is to describe the essential nature of living IP law: "What we want is the reader to come away with a good idea of how IP works in practice."

Intellectual Property 78

Intellectual Property Moral Rights Database Right Editing 78

IP and Legal Filings

MAY 13, 2024

Is copyright, patent, or trademark infringement applicable to AI creations or not, and who owns the material that AI platforms generate for you or your clients is still an unanswered question. AI additionally possesses no copyright on the material that it generates. Finally, it is generated by a computer from previously stored data.

Copyright 83

Copyright Intellectual Property Ownership Technology 83

The IPKat

JANUARY 25, 2022

Beyond the obvious attempt to draw a connection between the artwork and the book based a shared sense of the "classical", the artwork also seeks to evoke a more specific connection with the contents of the book. You can't judge a book from its cover". True, except when a book and its cover are involved. But of course.

Art 134

Art Artwork Copying Moral Rights 134

The IPKat

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Ramalho’s structure is simple and clear, two main parts, in two chapters – the first covering AI and copyright, and the second AI and patents – with one agenda, are AI-generated creations protectable? She then analyses relevant parts of copyright and patent protection for AI-generated content under European, US, Australian and Japanese law.

Intellectual Property 93

Intellectual Property Moral Rights Invention Copyright 93

IPilogue

MARCH 29, 2023

In March 2022, the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (“CIPO”) allowed its first artificial intelligence (AI)-authored copyright registration of a painting co-created by the AI tool, RAGHAV Painting App (“RAGHAV”), and the IP lawyer who created RAGHAV, Ankit Sahni. RAGHAV is the first non-human “author” of a copyrighted work.

Copyright 105

Copyright Moral Rights Copyright Law Registration 105

The IPKat

JANUARY 17, 2024

The book that is going to change copyright law? After the referrals in Mio [IPKat here and here ] and USM Haller [IPKat here ] , another referral asking about the meaning of originality in EU copyright law has been made to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU): it is the referral from Romania in Institutul G.

Derivative Work 137

Derivative Work Editing Copyright Music 137

The IPKat

JANUARY 11, 2023

What moral rights looked like in the 12th century—the story of "Guide of the Perplexed" Neil Wilkof took us back to the medieval ages, and looked at the work of Moses Maimonides’ “The Guide of the Perplexed”. Parody under copyright and trade mark law: key guidance from Zorro. I PKat book of the year awards - voting extended!

Moral Rights 67

Moral Rights Copyright Reporting Law 67

The IPKat

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

After discussing traditional legal methods in Parts I and II, the second half of the book introduces readers to empirical research methods. After introducing readers to the three main stages of content analysis, Bar-Ziv applies this methodology to a case study: content analysis of online copyright law cases. Montagnani, OUP, 912 pp.),

Intellectual Property 73

Intellectual Property IP Moral Rights Law 73

The IPKat

MAY 31, 2023

Copyright This Kat reflected on a judgment issued by the Tribunal Judiciaire of Paris on 31 March 2023 which concerned a claim of copyright infringement in a typeface. The Court held that a musical box infringed of an author’s moral rights. A Kat waiting for the next IP case.

Moral Rights 57

Moral Rights Intellectual Property Editing Copyright Infringement 57

The IPKat

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Here's what Jørgen writes: Universal Copyright Convention – RIP by Jørgen Blomqvist On December 9, 2021, WIPO announced that the Kingdom of Cambodia has joined the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, with effect from March 9, 2022.

Copyright 133

Copyright Moral Rights Copying Publishing 133

IPilogue

MARCH 29, 2023

RAGHAV is the first non-human “author” of a copyrighted work. However, Canadian courts claim that “[c]learly a human author is required to create an original work for copyright purposes” (para 88). If the machine produced the expressive elements of the work, it is not copyrightable.

Copyright 40

Copyright Moral Rights Copyright Law Registration 40

The IPKat

JANUARY 30, 2022

COPYRIGHT Katfriend Moritz Sutterer posted on a new competition tool that the German Competition Authority recently tried out against Google in relation to press publishers' neighbouring right. SpecialKat Hayleigh Bosher reviewed " Performers' Rights " by the Rt Hon Sir Richard Arnold, Judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.

Moral Rights 76

Moral Rights Database Right Designs Design 76

43(B)log

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Copyright Law Why are we so sure facts are excluded from the statute when the statute doesn’t use that word and uses a lot of other words. C’s first subject matter—maps, charts, and books—may help us think about what facts are (as distinguished from works?). Natural or moral right to own fruit of labors. 1) Baker v.

Copyright 59

Copyright Moral Rights Artwork Art 59

Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Like most copyright systems, French copyright law does not leave much room for the freedom of authors of transformative graphic works (also called “derivative works”). Three interesting cases on derivative works, two involving Jeff Koons and one Tintin, have recently put French copyright law in the international spotlight (e.g.

Derivative Work 107

Derivative Work Copyright Law Copyright Law 107

SpicyIP

JULY 14, 2023

He took no offense when I teased him about the lack of an Indian contribution to copyright. That’s right, because he focused more on patents — their ever-greening, their negative social impact — where facts are your primary weapons. Copyright and Author’s Rights The publishers wrote the history of Anglo-American copyright.

Moral Rights 93

Moral Rights Publishing Copyright Music 93

The IPKat

DECEMBER 10, 2021

A Kat contemplating the complex beauty of the universe Copyright Adele has stolen the spotlight with her new album and also with a special request to Spotify to disable its shuffle button so that listeners could listen to the album the way the artist intended. SpecialKat Tian Lu wrote a short summary of the report. Calboli and M.

Moral Rights 67

Moral Rights Intellectual Property Contracts Reporting 67

The IPKat

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Unauthorized changes to a text reside in the murkier confines of the copyright system, where, at most, moral rights may hold court. What brought together the two siblings was a book publishing project, The Family Shakespeare , first published in 1807, with a second edition published in 1818. They bowdlerize books.").

Moral Rights 62

Moral Rights Editing Publishing Licensing 62

Velocity of Content

MARCH 16, 2023

As a person involved in copyright on a daily basis, I’ve observed a number of events and requests for comment over the last few years on the issue of whether artificial intelligence (AI) systems can be “authors” in the copyright sense (or inventors of patents). This article was originally published in The Scholarly Kitchen.

Litigation 98

Litigation Fair Use Copying Derivative Work 98

Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In order to train their technologies, should AI companies be allowed to use works under copyright protection without consent? Such uses, they argue, constitute copyright infringement. In this regard, an important precedent lies in the history of US litigation involving Google Books. Fair Use Precedent?

Fair Use 137

Fair Use Copyright Moral Rights Copyright Law 137

SpicyIP

DECEMBER 20, 2023

With further ado, here’s what I found in Novembers: Database Protection in India: Since Prof Basheer’s 2005 post about the inaccurate implication of the theft of data as copyright infringement, to 2023, not much seems to have changed. The issue has often arisen in the context of protecting confidential information through copyright law.

Personality Rights 59

Personality Rights IP Licensing Copyright 59

IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 19, 2023

Second, the right to privacy, which protects individuals from having their identities disclosed to the public without their consent. The Indian Copyright Act, 1957 According to the act , only creators and performers, including actors, singers, musicians and dancers, have moral rights.

Personality Rights 75

Personality Rights Privacy Moral Rights Copyright 75

The IPKat

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This is a book review of Reforming Intellectual Property , edited by Gustavo Ghidini, Professor Emeritus, University of Milan and Senior Professor of Intellectual Property and Competition Law, LUISS University and Valeria Falce, Jean Monnet Professor in European Innovation Policy, European University of Rome. What Single Reform?

Intellectual Property 73

Intellectual Property Intellectual Property Law Moral Rights Editing 73

The IPKat

JANUARY 21, 2022

This is a review of Performer's Rights by the Rt Hon Sir Richard Arnold, Judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales. The book covers the rights of performers, particularly the rights conferred under Part II of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (as amended). The book is presented in 11 chapters.

Moral Rights 128

Moral Rights Contracts Editing Related Rights 128

43(B)log

AUGUST 5, 2021

Risk of identity loss means that “everyone belongs to everyone else,” as the slogan used in Huxley’s book goes. Rothman: Does not agree that ROP is the coined opposite of the right of privacy, nor that it should have a purely economic and commercial focus. See her book. Moral rights as a solution?

Privacy 45

Privacy Social Media Moral Rights Litigation 45

43(B)log

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

A Few Words for a Lost Friend: Tribute to Dmitry Karshtedt (Bob Brauneis, Mark Lemley, Jake Sherkow) Closing Plenary Session: Fair use Robert Brauneis, Copyright Transactions in the Shadow of Fair Use Suppose a work does not infringe another work because and only because it’s been ruled a fair use. Rosen: Moral rights? [he

Fair Use 59

Fair Use Derivative Work Copying Marketing 59

IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 22, 2024

Introduction The Intellectual property laws are designed in such a way that not only reward the creator of his intellectual creation thereby incentivising other creators for further innovation, while balancing the rights of the creator with the right of the society to access information or knowledge.

Ownership 52

Ownership Copyright Fair Use Intellectual Property 52

The IPKat

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

And, as Aviv Gaon points out in The Future of Copyright in the Age of Artificial Intelligence : AI-authored writing may look like any other human text, but it has no ‘soul’. AI systems do not ‘understand’ Therefore, we should consider carefully if AI creations should be worthy of copyright protection? Arguably not.

Copyright 98

Copyright Moral Rights IP Privacy 98

The IPKat

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Copyright Katfriend Seun Lari-Williams discussed the implications of the provision of Nigeria’s new Copyright Act which explicitly deems copyright as "movable property" for the purpose of the Constitution. There are also interesting questions about whether the deeming of copyright as "moveable property" is constitutional at all.

Moral Rights 67

Moral Rights Intellectual Property Editing Inventor 67

The IPKat

MAY 29, 2023

Now in its second edition, the book offers a perspective on how one can address the overlap between intellectual property (IP) rights, either to reconcile them in whole or in part, or to pre-empt one over the other. The volume is a beautiful testimony to the work of late Shamnad Basheer, who co-edited the first edition.

Intellectual Property 89

Intellectual Property Editing Privacy Moral Rights 89

IIPRD

JANUARY 29, 2023

3] The legal pitfall people ignore is the lack of clear communication over the copyrights of the character. However, the conversation being considered as a contract between them was unclear regarding the IP rights. 3] Section 17 of the Copyright Act, 1957. [4] 4] Andrew L. 10] Nichols v Universal Pictures Co, 45 F.2d

IP 52

IP Artwork Contracts Intellectual Property 52

Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 12, 2021

The so-called “conditional irresponsibility” of online content-sharing service providers (OCSSPs) with regards to copyright infringements is a never-ending, vexing, and daunting topic not only for scholars (see here , here , here and here ), but also for the European Court of Justice itself (CJEU). Overview of the Egyptian Copyright Law.

Copyright 103

Copyright Moral Rights Copyright Infringement Marketing 103

Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 28, 2022

On 8 February 2022, the Italian Supreme Court (the Corte di Cassazione ) issued an order that intervened on the interpretation of the quotation exception under Article 70 of the Italian Copyright Act (l.aut.). [1] Schifano’s heirs sued again the Foundation, claiming violation of their economic and moral rights over the works.

Copyright 52

Copyright Art Moral Rights Law 52

The IPKat

JANUARY 4, 2023

The basic mechanism of the modern author is regulating reproduction of the work (the subject matter of copyright) and preventing affronts to the work and the author's connection with it (the subject matter of moral rights). In the word so favored by the Academy, "contextualization" matters.

Moral Rights 96

Moral Rights Derivative Work Licensing Intellectual Property 96

LexBlog IP

AUGUST 31, 2022

Jacobs on the copyright side. Humor is also central to trademark infringement claims through notions of parody, and as part of copyright claims through satire. Humor has also come up as a relevant factor outside the defamation context, and specifically within the trademark and copyright context. constitutional system.

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