Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 30, 2021

Since the Second Circuit found the use of the song in the film fair and thus there was no direct infringement, the claims for secondary copyright infringement were also dismissed. The evolution in the case law of the Second Circuit may constitute a game changer for documentary makers. by Tito Rendas. € by Martin Senftleben. €

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Nikita Munjal is an IP Innovation Clinic Fellow, a Student Editor with the Intellectual Property Journal, and a third-year JD/MBA Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. . Creative works, such as artworks, qualify for copyright protection if they are original. Some stakeholders believe an author must be a natural person.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Right on the heels of Vedika’s earlier post , we are pleased to bring to you this guest post by Dr. Anson C J taking an in-depth look into the question of whether an AI-generated work is a “work” under the copyright law. Samuelson argues that, under current law, they are not.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Photographs are under the subject matter of copyright which means that photographs are artistic works that attract copyright protection. Hence, the use of Cairou’s photograph by Prince fell under the exception of fair use and would not be an instance of copyright infringement.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 25, 2022

Works of art, in the form of the reproduction of a painting, frequently adorns the cover of a reissued edition of a renowned novel. Beyond the obvious attempt to draw a connection between the artwork and the book based a shared sense of the "classical", the artwork also seeks to evoke a more specific connection with the contents of the book.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

AI-generated Kats The Review also rejected Thaler’s argument that AI can be an author under copyright law because the work made for hire doctrine allows for “non-human, artificial persons such as companies” to be authors. First, held the Board, a machine cannot enter into any binding legal contract.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

These events point to two prevalent issues within the current legal framework: First, that current intellectual property laws do not properly acknowledge collective ownership over shared culture within Indigenous communities and second, whether tattoo designs have the potential to be protected through copyright laws.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

If any person imitates the ideas of any other creator, he would said to be infringing the original artist’s design and the copyright thereof. A copyright protection is the ability of a designer to protect his original designs through the copyright laws. What Is Copyright? Musical Works.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Such works qualify as ‘computer generated works’ under the Indian Copyright Act. Computer-generated works were included as a category of works in 1995, presumably at a time when AI was not making art. For such works, copyright law confers authorship to the “person who causes the work to be created”.

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IIPRD

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Copy Right Law in the Entertainment Industry The cornerstone of intellectual property protection in the entertainment sector is copyright law. It gives authors and artists the sole ownership rights to their original writings, music, films, and artwork.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 18, 2022

8) computer software; and (9) other intellectual achievements conforming to the characteristics of the works.” ” China’s copyright law protects the expression of ideas instead of ideas themselves, which is similar to U.S. copyright law. .; (8) copyright law. For comparison, U.S.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Next, he added “the overall image’s genre and category,” “certain professional artistic terms which direct the tone of the piece,” “how lifelike [Mr. See my post here on AI and copyright registration issues in India). The term ‘computer generated work’ is not defined and is to be understood literally.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The growth of artificial intelligence (“AI”) and generative AI is moving copyright law into unprecedented territory. While US copyright law continues to develop around AI, one boundary has been set: the bedrock requirement of copyright is human authorship. Perlmutter, et.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 20, 2022

Since the underlying asset in NFTs is primarily art, disputes in relation to NFTs bring up interesting questions pertaining to copyright law, the answers to which have the potential to shape the evolution and growth of NFTs as a medium to create, distribute and collect art. The communication to the public right.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

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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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 23, 2023

Let’s Talk About Derivative Works Subject to fair use and other defenses, a copyright owner has the exclusive right to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work. You might assume that the concept of a “derivative work” under copyright law would be simple to define.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Lame comparisons apart, this story is interesting as it is an opportunity to discuss the protectability of artistic works under Italian laws. We have an artwork, displayed in a museum and which is in the public domain. Thus, not only it is for the authority taking care of the artwork (e.g. Second, Art.

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Art Law Journal

JUNE 16, 2022

It’s heartbreaking to find your artwork on a t-shirt at Forever 21 or as an image on someone’s blog without your permission. Congress included a “statutory damages” provision in the Copyright Act to ensure that artists receive guaranteed compensation for an infringement along with making any infringement case easier and faster to litigate.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Copyright Office (“USCO”) in which the USCO denied an application to register a work authored entirely by an artificial intelligence program. 2] The USCO, maintaining this perspective and upholding the human authorship requirement with respect to GenAI works, refused to register the copyright claim in the Work.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 7, 2023

Goldsmith et al sheds light on different perspectives of copyright law in common law and civil law countries. This brief post dives into this duality, as exampled by American and Brazilian law. Firstly, both Brazilian and American legislation stipulate that the creator of a work holds copyright over it.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

For example, if we ask the Stable Diffusion generator for a “cat wearing a suit” it generates images of dapper cats at the press of a button: As an aside, as it has been discussed previously on the IPKat , there is some uncertainty whether these image outputs are protected under copyright law and, if protected, who owns the relevant copyright.

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