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SCOTUS Denies Cert in Thaler – The Thorny Issue of AI Inventorship

LexBlog IP

History suggests the law will split inventorship down the middle and grant rights to those “portions” of an invention or copyrightable work that were created by a human, and avoid granting protection to the “portions” that were AI-generated. Copyright law does this well with the protection of derivative works.

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YouTube Wins Partial Summary Judgment in Maria Schneider Copyright Lawsuit

TorrentFreak

Schneider’s first amended complaint alleged that YouTube and its users infringed her copyrighted musical compositions and sound recordings, and that YouTube facilitated infringement by removing copyright management information (CMI) from her copyright works, in violation of the DMCA. YouTube’s Licensing Defense.

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Public Domain Day 2023 is Coming: Here’s What to Know

Copyright Lately

The principle that characters which evolve over time don’t enter the public domain all at once was established by the 2014 opinion in Klinger v. At the same time, those aspects of the character’s evolution that don’t appear until later works may still be eligible for copyright protection. Conan Doyle Estate, Ltd.

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Why Netflix’s “Bridgerton” Lawsuit is Good for Fan Fiction

Copyright Lately

performances of “The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical”) or other derivative works that might compete with Netflix’s own planned live events,” including the multi-city “ Bridgerton Experience.” 1962, 1976 (2014). Was it a license on the world’s greatest terms? Petrella v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. ,

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Software Downloads Netflix & Disney+ Videos to Make DRM-Free Copies

TorrentFreak

It is unlikely that these features will appear on a licensed mainstream service but that doesn’t stop subscribers from desiring them. for a ‘lifetime’ license. You agree that as a condition of your license, you will not: i. People Want to Download and Keep Movies & TV Shows.

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What Goldsmith Means to AI Trainers

IP Intelligence

Warhol created these silkscreens from a photograph of Prince taken by Lynn Goldsmith, who claimed copyright infringement when the Warhol estate licensed Orange Prince to Conde Nast after Prince’s passing in 2016 to illustrate an article about Prince’s life and music. We limit our analysis accordingly.

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The Battle Over Poker NFTs

Plagiarism Today

” The case raises questions of fair use and whether the new paintings were transformative enough to be non-infringing or if they were simply derivative works. That court found that most of Prince’s work was non-infringing (though several works still were) and the two sides ultimately settled the case in March 2014.

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