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

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

A new breed of artists is using generative artificial intelligence tools like DALL·E, Midjourney, Firefly, and ChatGPT to create artistic works. Do these creations belong to the artists or the public domain? Do creators who use generative AI maintain copyright in their creations? By guest blogger Prof. When the U.S.

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Generative AI and Copyright – Some Recent Denials and Unanswered Questions

Intellectual Property Law Blog

Copyright Office’s denial of a copyright application for a work created using generative AI due to lack of human authorship ( Thaler v. Thaler included several new legal theories to suggest that his contribution to the Creativity Machine, such as his ownership and prompting of the software, would establish a human component of authorship.

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

SpicyIP

suggest that highlighting tokens with the highest predicted likelihood of being edited by a programmer leads to faster task completion and more targeted edits. Overall, these papers indicate that there is a need for further discussion and development of copyright laws to address the unique challenges posed by AI-generated works.

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Generative AI and Copyright – Some Recent Denials and Unanswered Questions

LexBlog IP

Copyright Office’s denial of a copyright application for a work created using generative AI due to lack of human authorship ( Thaler v. ” The application asserted that the work was created autonomously by the machine and listed the machine as the author. ” Where AI alone creates a work, this point seems clear.

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IP and NFTs: Where are We?

LexBlog IP

NFTs are units of data stored on a blockchain that signify ownership of (supposedly) unique digital media items. February 2022: Nike sues online retailer StockX for trademark infringement based on StockX’s sale of NFTs for limited edition Nike sneakers that include images of the sneaker. The case is in the discovery phase.

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Centering Artists’ Voices Within IP Discourse

IPilogue

This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity; all emphases are mine. Not asking someone if you can share their comic about depression before reposting it to your tens or hundreds of thousands of followers is irresponsible and can read as disrespectful of the time the illustrator put into the original artwork.”

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“For Sale: This Article”: an overview of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and IP

IP Whiteboard

This means that each time an NFT changes hands, the transaction is verified, adding a new record to the chain of ownership. NFTs have a variety of uses which extend far beyond digital artwork. The ownership of an NFT can be easily authenticated, meaning buyers can have confidence that they are buying the real deal.