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Generative AI and Copyright – Some Recent Denials and Unanswered Questions

Intellectual Property Law Blog

Copyright Office’s denial of a copyright application for a work created using generative AI due to lack of human authorship ( Thaler v. Where AI alone creates a work, this point seems clear. Shortly following the Thaler decision, another artistic work created with generative AI was denied copyright protection.

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US Copyright Office refuses to register AI-generated work, finding that "human authorship is a prerequisite to copyright protection"

The IPKat

The application stated that the Work had been autonomously created by a computer algorithm running on a machine. Registration was sought as a work-for-hire to the owner of the Creativity Machine. In 2019, the Copyright Office rejected the application, holding that human authorship is necessary to support a copyright claim.

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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Image from DALL-E 3 Introduction Generative AI is disrupting the creative process(es) of intellectual works on an unparalleled scale. More and more AI systems offer services that push users’ production capacity for new literary and artistic works beyond unforeseen barriers. In 2019, the U.S. Deepbrain AI , Veed.io ).

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Generative AI and Copyright – Some Recent Denials and Unanswered Questions

LexBlog IP

Copyright Office’s denial of a copyright application for a work created using generative AI due to lack of human authorship ( Thaler v. ” Where AI alone creates a work, this point seems clear. Shortly following the Thaler decision, another artistic work created with generative AI was denied copyright protection.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (March 4-March 10)

SpicyIP

The plaintiff alleged that the defendant’s use of “Café Social” for its restaurant in Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh infringes its trademark as it copied the “Social” word mark and the plaintiff’s distinctive artwork representing its trademark. Both the parties have registrations over their respective “Karim” and “Kareem” trademarks.