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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 DALLĀ·E, Midjourney, Firefly, and ChatGPT to create artistic works. Do these creations belong to the artists or the public domain? Over time, courts began to accept that cameras and even computers can be used as tools for artistic creation.

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The Photography Show: your questions answered

Intellectual Property Office Blog

Photographs will generally be protected by copyright as artistic works. This means that a user will usually need your permission if they want to perform certain acts, such as copying your image or sharing it on the internet. However, this particular exception does not apply to two-dimensional works like graffiti.

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Can We Reexamine the Role of Blockchain in Copyright Now?

Plagiarism Today

Back in January, the crypto group Spice DAO (decentralized autonomous organization) made headlines for spending approximately $3 million to acquire a physical copy of the book Jodorowskyā€™s Dune , a bible for a planned Dune move that would have been made in the 1970s. . The payment beyond excessive.

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UK Court of Appeal rules on copyright in GUIs

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Mr Sheridan appealed the judgeā€™s declaration that ā€œ [t]he graphic user interface, the graphic displays produced by the Software when in use, and the ONE logo ā€¦ are artistic works: a. Both sides appealed to the Court of Appeal. in which copyright subsists; b. of which Andrew Mitchell is the author; and c. of which THJ is the owner ā€.

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Professional Photographer Files Copyright Infringement Suit Against Used Car Dealers

Indiana Intellectual Property Law

for Copyright Infringement, Removal of Copyright Management Information and Addition of False Copyright Management Information. 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 artistsā€™ works on the internet.

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Copyright Registration in India

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Copyright registration in India ensures protection for various types of works, such as literary works (e.g., books, articles, poems), artistic works (e.g., paintings, photographs, sculptures), musical works, cinematographic films, sound recordings, computer programs, and many more.

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Digitalization And Copyright Law

IP and Legal Filings

The availability of a large variety of information has also increased the risk of Copyright Infringement due to its easy accessibility and dissemination. Such work may include any literary or artistic work such as books, articles, films, databases, computer programs etc.