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Generative AI and creativity: A quick analysis of US and Canadian copyright registrations for artistic works

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Against that background, this blog post provides some tentative musings on the impact of text-to-image generators on human artistic creativity by analysing recent US and Canadian copyright registrations for artistic works. For simplicity, I will label this ‘commercial significant artistic creativity’.

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AI art and Indian copyright registration

SpicyIP

As reported, in 2020, the copyright office rejected an application which listed AI (RAGHAV) as the sole author for an artwork. This copyright office granted registration in this case. The basis of grant of registration is not clear. The basis of grant of registration is not clear. A worrisome paradox.

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Copyright Infringement Case Concerning Photos of Jennifer Lopez Gets Dismissed: An Overview of the August Image LLC v AirG Inc Decision

IPilogue

On April 5 th 2022, the Federal Court released its decision for August Image LLC v AirG Inc , a copyright infringement action concerning images of singer-actress, Jennifer Lopez. However, the Court ultimately dismissed August’s case because they failed to prove all the necessary elements of copyright infringement.

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Bombay High Court Rules that Copyright Registration of a Label is not Compulsory

Kashishipr

Under Section 2(c) of The Copyright Act of 1957 , the label is an original artistic work. When SSPL was incorporated in 2004, SK Oil Industries had assigned it the label’s copyright. As per NTC’s statement, both SSPL and SK Oil Industries couldn’t claim copyright in the artistic work.

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Fleshing out the copyright in a tattoo

IP Whiteboard

In what we understand to be an industry-first, the Copyright Agency (an Australian not-for-profit collecting society that also licences copyright protected literary and artistic works) has licenced an Indigenous artwork for a tattoo. Left: Chris Black’s Jarrangini (buffalo), 2018 © Chris Black/Copyright Agency, 2020.

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Beyond the Big Screen: The Legal Odyssey of Film Titles in India

IP and Legal Filings

1] The Copyright Act protects certain types of works, which are included in Section 13. 13 (1) states that original literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works as well as cinematograph films and sound recordings are protected by copyright. These registrations aid in allocating precedence.

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Supermarket Showdown (Lidl v Tesco) – Lidl’s rights (trade marks and copyright) in the Lidl logo are infringed by Tesco’s “Clubcard Price” signs

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Trade mark infringement – Lidl’s trade mark for the Lidl logo was infringed by Tesco’s Clubcard Price(s) signs, which took unfair advantage of Lidl’s reputation for low prices and damaged the distinctive character of Lidl’s logo. Subsequent registrations of the Wordless Mark were also found to be invalid for bad faith.