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U.S. Copyright Office Proposes Rule for Group Registration of Published Two-Dimensional Artwork

JD Supra Law

On February 15, 2024, the United States Copyright Office published a notice of proposed rulemaking, proposing to create a new group registration option for published two-dimensional artwork. The proposed rule, which the Copyright Office calls “GR2D,” would allow applicants to register up to ten.

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New Generative AI Copyright Disclosure Act of 2024 Introduced

BYU Copyright Blog

New Generative AI Copyright Disclosure Act of 2024 Introduced Legislation or Federal Rulemaking,Artificial Intelligence April 29, 08:59 AM April 29, 08:59 AM On April 09, 2024, a new piece of legislation was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives concerning Artificial Intelligence and Copyright Law. 7913), sponsored by Rep.

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First duel between NFTs and copyright before the Spanish courts: NFTs 1 – Authors 0

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In fact, on 11 January 2024, Barcelona Commercial Court number 9 handed down what is indeed the first judgment in Spain in a case where NFTs and copyright are at a crossroads. Findings of the Court The long-awaited judgment of 11 January 2024 of Barcelona Commercial Court number 9 dismisses the Authors’ complaint in its entirety.

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Registering a trade mark even if you think that copyright is for losers? Not bad faith, says (finally) EUIPO BoA

The IPKat

Banksy's Laugh Now But One Day We’ll Be In Charge A while ago The IPKat reported [ here and here ] on a string of cancellations of elusive artist Banksy ’s EU trade mark (EUTM) registrations relating to some of their best-known artworks. The reason?

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Sunday Surprises

The IPKat

The Art Newspaper has followed up on the ruling and the commentary, speculating on the potential implications thereof concerning the copyright status of digitized images of public domain artworks. Votes must be made via email before 15 January 2024 as per the instructions in this post. The whole editorial is available here.

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Print-on-Demand Services Face More Legal Woes–Canvasfish v. Pixels

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Much like Redbubble, Pixels also has a hand in advertising infringing work, allowing users to search for DeYoung artwork and providing a link to view “all Derek DeYoung products,” despite the fact that many of those products originated from unlicensed third parties. Pixels.com, LLC , 2024 WL 885356 (W.D. ” UGH.

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AI: The Copyright and Plagiarism Story of 2022 and 2023

Plagiarism Today

We saw similar backlashes on DeviantArt and many sites, such as Getty Images, have banned AI artwork for the time being. It’s unlikely that we’ll know the long-term impacts of AI in 2023 or even 2024. For example, in December, artists on ArtStation began to protest against AI-generated images , flooding the site with protest images.