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NFTs: promisingly transformational, yet fraught with IP pitfalls – Part I

Kluwer Copyright Blog

However, the ensuing craze and notoriety generated by many high-value NFT transactions has revealed a slew of unanswered legal copyright questions and issues. However, de facto they merely owned proof of ownership without any proprietary value, as all copyright and any related rights were retained and not granted upon purchase.

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Never Too Late: If you missed the IPKat the past 2 weeks!

The IPKat

GuestKat Becky Knott commented on the decision of the 2nd Board of Appeal in case R 609/2021-2 [ Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft v European Flipper / Pinball Factory GmbH ], which shows that it is possible to rely on 3D marks in the context of opposition proceedings.

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UKIPO’s public consultation on AI and IP – computer-generated works (Part 1)

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Running from 29 October 2021 to 7 January 2022, the “ Artificial Intelligence and IP: copyright and patents ” consultation formed the latest round in an ongoing national conversation between the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) and interested stakeholders (see here ). Photo by Possessed Photography on Unsplash.

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AI and IP – to legislate or not? UKIPO’s public consultation seeks evidence

Kluwer Copyright Blog

On 29 October 2021, the UK Intellectual Property Office launched a public consultation looking at how the copyright and patent regimes should deal with artificial intelligence. That call concerned patents, copyright and related rights, designs, trade marks and trade secrets. Computer-generated works (CGW).

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Training AI models on Synthetic Data: No silver bullet for IP infringement risk in the context of training AI systems (Part 3 of 4)

LexBlog IP

This third part of our four-part series on using synthetic data to train AI models explores the interplay between synthetic data training sets, the EU Copyright Directive and the forthcoming EU AI Act. Stated another way, how can a person wishing to use such content reasonably discover and avoid materials subject to an opt-out?

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Guest Post: Press Publishers’ Rights In Indian News Media Digital Space

SpicyIP

The EU took the Intellectual Property route by introducing a related right under its copy right law. The right is an exclusive right to reproduction and making the content available online to the EU press publishers against online use of their content by information society service providers for two years.