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Generative AI and creativity: A quick analysis of US and Canadian copyright registrations for artistic works

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In addition to raising questions about ownership of outputs , infringement in training , and the future of copyright as a policy tool to encourage creativity , economists are in the early stages of analysing the effects of these technologies on human creativity.

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Ownership of Copyrights Patents and Trademarks are Created by Employees and Independent Contractors

IP and Legal Filings

The protection of the trade secrets (the specific and confidential information about the production of the company and give the business a competitive advantage in the industry) can be legalized under major sub pars including: Patents – the protection comes with time strain.

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UK Court of Appeal rules on copyright in GUIs

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Mr Mitchell and Mr Sheridan had formerly entered into a joint business venture, OptionNet LLP (the second claimant in the appeal). The venture concerned software, known as OptionNET Explorer, developed by Mr Mitchell and used by Mr Sheridan and his company Sheridan Options Mentoring Corporation in his mentoring business.

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Can We Reexamine the Role of Blockchain in Copyright Now?

Plagiarism Today

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. This, in turn, is why pirate NFTs became such big business. To put it mildly, those promises have not come to fruition.

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Is your original work automatically protected by copyright?

Intepat

Intellectual property rights (IPR) offer protection and grant exclusive rights to the creator’s work. Copyrights are a form of IPR that offers protection to a wide range of artistic and literary works of a creator. It includes musical works, photographic works, artistic works, motion pictures, and computer programs.

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Professional Photographer Files Copyright Infringement Suit Against Used Car Dealers

Indiana Intellectual Property Law

in Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin and has since combined his love for photographic art and computer science by building an online system to help protect artistsworks on the internet. They tout to be a family owned local car business always looking to give the best deal. He received his B.S.

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[Guest post] Generative AI, originality, and the potential role of contract in protecting unoriginal works

The IPKat

Does UK copyright law protection extend to computer-generated works which are not original? Ordinarily, for a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work to be protected under the CDPA it must be original. Traditionally, the English Courts applied a test of ‘sufficient skill, labour or effort’ to determine originality.