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What Winnie-the-Pooh Lapsing into the Public Domain Really Means

Plagiarism Today

On January 1, 2022, works that were first published in the year 1926 lapsed into the public domain. Winnie-the-Pooh is likely the most culturally relevant character to enter the public domain since 2019, when works started entering the public domain again in the United States due to the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.

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A first look at the copyright relevant parts in the final AI Act compromise

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Among these rules, which were one of the main areas of contention between Council and Parliament until the very end, the final compromise includes two provisions relevant to copyright. A newly introduced article on “Obligations for providers of general-purpose AI models” includes two distinct requirements related to copyright.

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The puzzled tie of copyright, cultural heritage and public domain in Italian law: is the Vitruvian Man taking on unbalanced proportions?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The Court applies Italian law cross-border to the unitary set of conducts, based on an economic-functional link among all company divisions, indicating as the main criterion of connection with Italian jurisdiction the forum damni ex Article 20 of the Italian code of civil procedure (c.p.c.),

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Disney+ ‘Behind the Attraction’ Accused of Plagiarism

Plagiarism Today

In July 2019, YouTuber James St. They have a lengthy and aggressive history when it comes to protecting their rights , even as many of their stories are based on public domain tales. This has made Disney something of a copyright villain to many online and off. Bottom Line.

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Generative AI, Digital Constitutionalism and Copyright: Towards a Statutory Remuneration Right grounded in Fundamental Rights – Part 1

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Indeed, human creators seek compensation for the novel use of their intellectual efforts while AI firms aim to maximize the free harvesting of data (including copyright-protected materials) for training their algorithms. Lately, IP offices and the judiciary have started to decide on the copyrightability of AI-generated outputs.

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Should Copyright Preemption Moot Anti-Scraping TOS Terms? (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

At the district court level, the law of copyright preemption is a morass of ad hoc explanations of whether certain contracts are “equivalent” to the exclusive rights within the general scope of copyright law. Platforms that copy online data and use it to create AI have a strong fair use argument under copyright laws.

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Emoji and World of Intellectual Property

IIPRD

The article attempts to answer this question of the readers in the simplest way with the help of real-time examples. However, the word emoji itself is not subject to protection awarded to intellectual property in general, but unlike the Indian Law, the US Law awards protection to emoji in certain cases. Copyright Law.