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

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Do these creations belong to the artists or the public domain? s advertisement for hats, copying Sarony’s Oscar Wilde No. Copyright Office denied copyright protection for Kashtanova’s Midjourney-generated artwork, the Office found their work lacked the critical component of a human author. By guest blogger Prof.

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[Guest post] Can the owner of an artistic work convert it into an NFT for its use in the Metaverse?

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Last week the media reported (see here ) that the Commercial Court Number 9 of Barcelona has issued a decision on the precautionary measures filed by VEGAP, the sole copyright collecting society which in Spain represents authors of artworks against the well-known Spanish fashion brand.

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Uffizi museum sues Jean Paul Gaultier over unauthorized reproduction of Botticelli’s Venus on fashion garments

The IPKat

Besides the case of unofficial tickets, in the past the Italian state has relied on the CHC to prevent commercial advertisements of rifles in which Michelangelo’s David was portrayed in full armour.

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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority had emphasised this in its April 2021 guidance on advertising cryptocurrencies. For instance, CrypToadz is a prominent CC0 NFT project wherein the artwork related to the NFT is in the public domain.

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The EU imperative to a free public domain: The case of Italian cultural heritage

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Image via Staatliche Museen, Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Christoph Schmidt Public Domain Mark 1.0 In this context of international and EU legal obligations to protect cultural rights, the EU has set a legal imperative to protect the public domain.

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The puzzled tie of copyright, cultural heritage and public domain in Italian law: is the Vitruvian Man taking on unbalanced proportions?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

1] The artwork is held by the Italian state museum Gallerie dell’Accademia of Venice, which, along with the Italian Ministry of Culture, initiated the precautionary proceeding against the German company Ravensburger and its Italian subsidiary for producing and selling the puzzle and reproducing the work’s image. 633/1941, l.

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Dastar prevents misrepresentation of source of IP from being material

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WPI counterclaimed against Restellini and third-party Institut Restellini SAS – Documentation Centre alleging copyright infringement and false advertising. Cases about false advertising of the source of “services” were inapposite. “[T]he This opinion got rid of the counterclaims. “In