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AI Generated Art and its conflict with IPR

IIPRD

This article delves into the ongoing debate around the issue of right of ownership of copyright by AI generators for their novel artwork. 2] This shift i.e. from assisting work to generating it has taken the legal regime of IPR by a storm of confusion and questions.

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Fleshing out the copyright in a tattoo

IP Whiteboard

In what we understand to be an industry-first, the Copyright Agency (an Australian not-for-profit collecting society that also licences copyright protected literary and artistic works) has licenced an Indigenous artwork for a tattoo. In looking at this question, you first need to consider what work is being used as a tattoo.

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Prompt Authorship and Ownership: Clarifying Rights and Responsibilities

Intepat

One case involved the visual work “A Recent Entrance to Paradise,” produced by Steven Thaler’s Creativity Machine, which was entirely generated by AI with no human contribution. Despite this, the Office denied copyright registration for the AI-generated images.

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‘AI Generated Work’, ‘Computer Generated’ and ‘Work’ in Copyright: Whether AI Generated Work is a ‘Work’?

SpicyIP

In her work, Jessica Gillotte focuses on the copyright infringement issues arising from AI-generated artwork and argues that under current copyright law, engineers may use copyrighted works to train AI programs without infringing copyright.

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Andy Warhol Foundation Seeks Rehearing in Fair Use Case

Copyright Lately

The Andy Warhol Foundation (AWF) is asking the Second Circuit to reconsider its recent fair use ruling over Warhol’s “Prince Series,” arguing that the decision “threatens to render unlawful many of the most historically significant artistic works of the last half-century.”.

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Paradise Lost: Human Involvement Still Required for “Creativity Machine’s” Work

LexBlog IP

Copyright Office (“USCO”) in which the USCO denied an application to register a work authored entirely by an artificial intelligence program. The court in Thaler focused on the fact that the work at issue had no human authorship, setting a clear rule for one end of the spectrum. The case, Thaler v. 3d 955 (9th Cir.

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NFTs and Copyright: Some Burning Issues

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Significantly, the vast majority of NFTs do not include a copy of the underlying work ‘as is’, but rather, only include the alpha-numeric signature or URL that is associated with the underlying work, although some low-resolution artwork is stored on the blockchain with the NFT. The communication to the public right.

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