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Role of Intellectual Property in Entertainment Industry

IIPRD

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Introduction The media and entertainment industry is a broad and ever-evolving domain that includes several industries, including music, cinema, television, fashion, and more. In this sector, intellectual property (IP) regulations are essential for defending the rights of inventors, artists, and producers.

Intellectual Property

Intellectual Property Cease and Desist Copyright Law Music

AI Generated Art and its conflict with IPR

IIPRD

APRIL 8, 2024

This article delves into the ongoing debate around the issue of right of ownership of copyright by AI generators for their novel artwork. And then further questions like if given protection under IPR, will that be fair to the initial creators, whose works were used without consent or licensing to create these so-called novel art pieces?

Art

Art Artwork Intellectual Property Copyright Law

Copyrightability Of Designer Clothes And Costumes

IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

It is a form of IPR that is used to guard the hard work and efforts of the artist. Copyrights can be awarded for usage of literary works, dramatic works, cinematographic films, musical works and even for the designs of clothes and jewelry. Literary Works Other than Computer Programs. Musical Works.

Designs

Designs Design Copyright Copyright Infringement

Copyright Laws & Trademark Infringement for NFTs

Traverse Legal Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2022

An NFT, or “non-fungible token” is a token added to a blockchain that links ownership to unique digital items (images, video files, audio files, artworks, etc.). Can NFTs Reflect Ownership License Rights or Other IP? If the NFT project then sells the NFT linked to a digital work to a NFT buyer, that NFT buyer would also be infringing.

Non-Fungible Tokens

Non-Fungible Tokens Copyright Law Trademark Copyright

Generative AI, Digital Constitutionalism and Copyright: Towards a Statutory Remuneration Right grounded in Fundamental Rights – Part 1

Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

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., ChatGPT , Smodin ), to perform music (i.e., AIVA, Beatoven , Soundful ), to draw images (i.e., Deepbrain AI , Veed.io ). UDHR, and 15.1

Copyright

Copyright Art Copyright Law Licensing

IP and NFTs: Where are We?

LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Licensing of rights: How should IP rights in the associated asset be licensed in an NFT context? In his motion, Rothschild argued that he used “MetaBirkins” as a title to an artistic work as opposed to a source-identifying trademark. Miles Parks McCollum v. Opulous et al. 2:22-cv-00587, U.S.

IP

IP Non-Fungible Tokens Artwork Intellectual Property

California Supreme Court reaffirms strict liability for false advertising in Serova

43(B)log

AUGUST 22, 2022

Sony Music Entertainment, P.3d Serova bought Michael , “an album of music billed as Michael Jackson’s first posthumous release,” which promised “9 previously unreleased vocal tracks performed by” Jackson. Not all marketing of artistic works is noncommercial speech. 3d -, 2022 WL 3453395, S260736 (Cal. citing Hustler v.

False Advertising

False Advertising Advertising Advertising Artistic Work

Fair Use for Documentaries in US Copyright Law: Brown v Netflix

Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 30, 2021

The rest of the dance routine music consists of other songs. This decision will certainly be welcomed by documentary makers, who may now feel more encouraged to use works created by others – not only music but also visual artworks, especially those which are placed in the public environment.

Fair Use

Fair Use Copyright Law Copyright Law

Artists Attack AI: Why The New Lawsuit Goes Too Far

Copyright Lately

JANUARY 23, 2023

“A photorealistic dining table made out of old license plates” (Midjourney) The tool can then apply its knowledge of tables to the knowledge it has acquired about aesthetic choices, styles and perspectives, all en route to creating a new image that’s never existed before. The Copyright Act Definition is Broad, But.

Derivative Work

Derivative Work Art Copying Fair Use

SpicyIP Weekly Review (March 4-March 10)

SpicyIP

MARCH 11, 2024

The plaintiff alleged that the defendant’s use of “Café Social” for its restaurant in Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh infringes its trademark as it copied the “Social” word mark and the plaintiff’s distinctive artwork representing its trademark. X wins copyright infringement case against 17 music publishers.

Trademark

Trademark Registration Copyright Patent

Copyright and Transformative Fair Use

Patently-O

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Warhol’s Estate argues that the artworks represent a commentary on the dehumanizing nature of celebrity whereas the Goldsmith photos merely reflect Prince in his unique human form. Rather, Warhol worked from a set of studio photographs by famed celebrity photographer Lynn Goldsmith. Warhol was never personally a party to the license).

Fair Use

Fair Use Copyright Derivative Work Art

[Guest post] Litigation commenced against the developers of AI image generation software

The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

This issue is often discussed in connection to section 9(3) of the Copyright Design and Patents Act (UK) , (CDPA) which provides that in the case of an artistic work which is computer-generated, the author shall be taken to be the person by whom the arrangements necessary for the creation of the work are undertaken.

Litigation

Litigation Copying Copyright Designs

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

IP Whiteboard

JUNE 7, 2021

A non-fungible token is a one-of-a-kind digital token that may be linked to another item or asset, often a digital work, such as a drawing, video or piece of music. NFTs have a variety of uses which extend far beyond digital artwork. Multiple pieces of copyright material may exist in a single digital work.