Intepat

APRIL 30, 2025

At the heart of the debate lies a fundamental tension: how to balance the enduring protection offered by copyright for original artistic expressions with the more limited, utilitarian protection granted to designs intended for industrial application. The case stems from allegations of copyright infringement by Inox India Ltd.,

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IP Law 360

AUGUST 22, 2023

Federal copyright officials said a tattoo artist's contributions to a pair of designs made them able to be protected by copyright law, the latest dustup in an intellectual property dispute between the artist and the maker of the NBA 2K video game series.

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SpicyIP

APRIL 30, 2025

The Court agreed, stating that the flanges were functional parts , not artistic works, and using the technical drawings to make such components did not constitute copyright infringement. The respondents claim that the drawing is capable enough of being protected as an artistic work.

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SpicyIP

JULY 29, 2021

This post only deals with copyrightability of fonts from artistic work perspective and does not explore the copyrightability of fonts as code or literary works. The phrase has been placed as a residuary clause to cover works that otherwise fulfil the eligibility of artistic work.

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IP Law 360

JUNE 10, 2024

VIP products ruling, courts have applied Jack Daniel's inconsistently to deny First Amendment protection to artistic works, providing guidance for dismissing trademark claims relating to film and TV titles, say Hardy Ehlers and Neema Sahni at Covington. In the year since the U.S. Supreme Court's Jack Daniel's v.

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The Illusion of More

OCTOBER 26, 2023

While people may continue to debate whether robots dream of electric sheep, let us please stop entertaining the notion that AIs “learn from artistic works the same way human artists learn” to make art.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works: This international treaty ensures protection of artistic works, meaning AI developers using global music catalogs must adhere to international copyright standards.

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JD Supra Law

JUNE 21, 2022

A New York federal court has ruled that a non-fungible token (“NFT”) for a digital image similar to a Birkin handbag may be an “artistic” work for purposes of determining whether the NFT infringes the Birkin trademark and other IP rights.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 30, 2024

In the lawsuit brought against them for using visual artists' work to teach their large language model, and producing near-identical copies in response to prompts, Stability AI, Midjourney, DeviantArt, and Runway AI moved to dismiss almost all of the claims asserted against them. . By: McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 22, 2023

On January 18, a series of 16 amicus briefs were filed with the Supreme Court, the vast majority of which urged the nation’s highest court to reverse the Ninth Circuit’s ruling and limit the application of the Rogers test to clearly artistic works and exclude consumer products that happened to have some humorous expression.

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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Copyright law protects artistic works. Who will own the copyright of the translated work? Does it belong to the individual translator, the translation company, or to the author of the original work? That includes literary pieces like novels, poems and other literary pieces.

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The IPKat

MARCH 11, 2025

4,(2) German Copyright Act , artistic works, including works of architecture and applied art, are protected by copyright, provided they are the authors own intellectual creation. The judges referred to the consistent case law of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) to define the term work. According to Sec.

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Intepat

JUNE 15, 2025

The Moral Rights vs. Commercial Exploitation: An equally compelling aspect of this case is the tension between moral rights and the commercial exploitation of artistic works. Moral rights protect authors’ personal connection to their works, preventing alteration regardless of ownership.

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IP Law 360

MAY 1, 2025

A company that claims to own various Frida Kahlo trademarks urged the Eleventh Circuit on Thursday to revive its lawsuit against Kahlo's family over cease-and-desist letters the family sent to partners in exhibitions of the Mexican artist's work that the company says interfered with its business.

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The IPKat

APRIL 6, 2025

Case law has typically dealt with the physical destruction of tangible artistic works, such as famous murals being painted over. First, VARA can and probably should be vastly expanded to protect a wider range of artistic works.

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IIPRD

MARCH 13, 2025

All the creations of the human minds such as designs, inventions, artistic works, names, symbols, etc. For that, first let us understand what are IP and IPR. Intellectual Property refers to any intangible asset or property originated from the human intellect. are intellectual properties owned by individuals and/or businesses.

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Kashishipr

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Under Section 2(c) of The Copyright Act of 1957 , the label is an original artistic work. As per NTC’s statement, both SSPL and SK Oil Industries couldn’t claim copyright in the artistic work. The label in question was designed by an employee of SK Oil Industries.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 12, 2021

Copyright protection is, generally speaking, formality-free in the US and other member states of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works.

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JD Supra Law

JUNE 27, 2023

With the increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in creating literary and artistic works, the U.S. Copyright Office has now addressed the issue of the copyrightability of works containing AI-generated materials.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Section 2(c) of the Copyright Act 1957 states that a copyright covers what is referred to as an artistic work, when interpreted in relation to the protection of jewellery through intellectual property, it may be deemed that the initial artistic sketch on which the design is based will be subject to copyright protection.

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The IPKat

MARCH 25, 2025

Copyright and AI Eleonora Rosati reviewed the US Court of Appeal decision in A Recent Entrance to Paradise which is an artistic work that is claimed to have been entirely generated by Dr Stephen Thalers Creativity Machine. The Court awarded RMB 3.3

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Intepat

JUNE 15, 2025

The Moral Rights vs. Commercial Exploitation: An equally compelling aspect of this case is the tension between moral rights and the commercial exploitation of artistic works. Moral rights protect authors’ personal connection to their works, preventing alteration regardless of ownership.

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IPilogue

MARCH 14, 2023

Judge Rakoff held that the Rogers v Grimaldi test for artistic works applies where the key inquiry is whether the trademark was used to mislead the public. This test was applied as opposed to the Gruner + Jahr test, which applies where no artistic work is involved.

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IP Law 360

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The MTV reality show "Floribama Shore" doesn't violate the trademark rights of a bar called Flora-Bama Lounge, the Eleventh Circuit has ruled in a precedential opinion, finding the show name to be entitled to protection as a title of an artistic work.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

According to Ricketson , it was clearly understood that this was also a requirement for the purposes of protection under the Convention, and inherent in the phrase ‘literary and artistic works’ in Article 2.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 30, 2022

Is it mandatory to be a member of copyright society to carry out the business of issuing or granting licences in respect of literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works incorporated in a cinematograph film or sound recordings?

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 2, 2022

For almost as long as the blockchain has existed, supporters and advocates of it have claimed it would revolutionize the way we consume art, handle copyright disputes and earn revenue from artistic works. To put it mildly, those promises have not come to fruition.

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IP Law 360

AUGUST 24, 2022

The pastor of a Texas church apologized for his congregation's decision to put on an unauthorized rendition of "Hamilton," agreeing to pay any damages to the producers of the hit musical and promising to "use this moment as a learning opportunity about protected artistic works and intellectual property."

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IP Law 360

JULY 7, 2022

The artist behind a viral installation of a banana taped on a wall can't escape a copyright lawsuit accusing him of plagiarizing another artist's work, with a Florida federal judge finding that the "absurd and farcical nature" of a duct-taped banana met the minimum bar for creativity.

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In August of 2021, India’s copyright office recognized the RAGHAV Painting App, an artificial intelligence tool, as the co-author of a copyright-protected artistic work , Suryast. However, recent developments in India may signal the emergence of a new era of protection extending beyond humans to include artificial intelligence.

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JD Supra Law

OCTOBER 25, 2024

In 2023, visual artists Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKernan, and Karla Ortiz filed a class action lawsuit against several Artificial Intelligence (AI) companies, alleging that the companies’ various AI models violated copyright law by using the artists’ work in their training data sets.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 8, 2023

It states that the following classes of works are copyrightable- Original literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works; Cinematograph films, and Sound recording The term ‘artistic work’ is defined under Section 2(c) of the Act.

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Garrigues Blog

MARCH 27, 2025

Firstly, it seems clear that any element that is included in a board game and meets the originality criterion, constitutes a literary or artistic work, depending on its nature. Drawings, designs, figures or characters can be classified as artistic works.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 23, 2022

“the business of issuing or granting licence in respect of literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works incorporated in a cinematograph films or sound recordings shall be carried out only through a copyright society” ) has to be read as an exception to the first proviso. The second proviso (i.e.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 25, 2024

In the most recent of three Copyright Review Board decisions regarding artificial intelligence (“AI”) works, the Board once again found that an artistic work generated by inputting the author’s photograph of a sunset and Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, into the RAGHAV AI Painting App, then selecting the intensity of a style filter did not constitute more (..)

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Under the copyright act in India, an artist may protect an “original artistic work” if it is expressed in a tangible medium for over 60 years. However, it is pertinent to note that if an artistic work is already protected under the designs act, it cannot be protected under the copyright act.

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IPilogue

JULY 27, 2022

On June 23 rd , 2022, the Parliament of Canada passed legislation to extend the term of copyright protection in literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works from life of author plus 50 years to 70 years. Sally Yoon is an IPilogue Writer, IP Innovation Clinic Fellow, and a 3L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School.

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