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Book Review: Research Handbook on IP and Moral Rights

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This is a book review of the Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Moral Rights , curated by Ysolde Gendreau (Université de Montréal, Canada), provided by Francesca Mazzi , Lecturer in AI, Innovation and Law at Brunel University London. Such gestures couldn't be overlooked in a book on moral rights.

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Conundrum Involving The Ownership Of The Work Created By Ai

IP and Legal Filings

AI can explore data or information that is accessible in public domain or copyright of other person and can investigate or work upon that information but only to that extent which the software program permits. [3] Therefore, AI may not equipped for generating an original work. Hence, ownership is not granted to the AI.

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

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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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Generative AI and Copyright

IP and Legal Filings

In doing so, it calls into question a fundamental assumption of many traditional intellectual property (IP) frameworks as copyright laws only protect works created by humans and not AI. And if someone substantially edits AI-generated data and claims copyright on the edited work, they could potentially qualify for copyright protection.

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The Wonder That is Berne

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By voting to limit the period of copyright, the House of Lords created the Public Domain. The decisive events in London from 1710 to 1774 determined the course of modern Anglo-American copyright. The influenced the American Copyright Statute of 1790.

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Copyright Protection of Photographs: a Comparative Analysis Between France, Germany and Italy

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Photographs are included in Article 2(1) of the Berne Convention as copyrightable artistic works. All Berne Union Member States must thus provide copyright protection to photographic works. By contrast, the author of a simple photograph is not granted any moral right. Simple photographs. . by Alexander Puutio. €

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[Guest Post] Copyright as movable property: Constitutional issues with Nigeria’s Copyright Act 2022

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If the right to something depends on a contract, or a statute explicitly creating it (e.g., copyright), can one call such a constitutional right? copyright law. Would it automatically place works compulsorily acquired in the public domain or only transfer ownership to the government?