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Ankit Sahni’s AI “Co-authored” Artwork Denied Registration by US, Continues to be Registered in India

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US Copyright Office issues another ruling on AI-authorship and copyright, reaffirming its decision to reject Ankit Sahni and RAGHAV’s artistic work. Subject work on which copyright registration was sought. Interestingly, the artwork also led to controversy in India when it was granted registration in November 2020.

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How A Century-Old Insight of Photography Can Inform Legal Questions of AI-Generated Artwork (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

A new breed of artists is using generative artificial intelligence tools like DALL·E, Midjourney, Firefly, and ChatGPT to create artistic works. Do these creations belong to the artists or the public domain? 2023, Generative AI Works Found Ineligible for Copyright Under the U.S. By guest blogger Prof.

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Generative AI and Copyright – Some Recent Denials and Unanswered Questions

Intellectual Property Law Blog

On August 18, 2023, the US District Court for the District of Columbia affirmed the U.S. 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. It cited its AI Registration Guidance, 88 Fed.

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Artifical Intelligence Vis-À-Vis Ownership and Authorship Right under Copyright Law

IP and Legal Filings

Ethical considerations regarding the creation of artistic works have been a persistent source of dispute over the course of human history. The integration of technology within the domain of art design has provided artists with unprecedented possibilities to conceptualise and implement interactive and immersive experiences.

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AI and copyright: More developments – human prompts are not ‘direct instructions’

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On September 5, 2023, as explained here , the US Copyright Office (USCO) issued an interesting decision in a copyright registration matter that involved AI-generated work. Previously, in the Thaler case , the US Copyright Office had refused to register an AI-generated work since the application named the AI-system as the author.

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Takeaways from the Hermès Litigation over MetaBirkins NFTs

LexBlog IP

They must first determine whether the work is one “of artistic expression” and thus prima facie entitled to protection under the First Amendment. If it is, the Court will then ask whether the use of the trademark bears any artistic relevance to the underlying work. 22-cv-384 (JSR), 2023 U.S.

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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. ChatGPT , Smodin ), to perform music (i.e.,

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