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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Against that background, this blog post provides some tentative musings on the impact of text-to-image generators on human artistic creativity by analysing recent US and Canadian copyright registrations for artistic works. In contrast, the CIPO has arguably adopted a more liberal attitude to computer-generated works.

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Media Laws, Rights & Privacy Of Celebrities

IP and Legal Filings

Celebrities have objected to this because it interferes with their personal lives and their right to privacy. Licensing It denotes that the film is based on a previously published novel, book, or artistic work. Celebrities have objected to this because it interferes with their personal lives and their right to privacy.

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

The IPKat

Such ‘synthetic’ training data can be very valuable, as it can be used where real-world training data is scarce or where the use of real-world data is difficult due to privacy or security concerns. Does UK copyright law protection extend to computer-generated works which are not original?

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Digitalization And Copyright Law

IP and Legal Filings

Copyright And Copyright Law Copyright is one of the crucial parts of Intellectual Property Rights which helps the owner of any creative work to have a legal right over the possession of such work or art. Such work may include any literary or artistic work such as books, articles, films, databases, computer programs etc.

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Traditional Tattoos on the Red Carpet: Continuing the Conversation of Collective Ownership

IPilogue

It is likely that tattoos would fall under the Copyright Act under section 5(1), which delineates artistic works as expressions through visual medium. the Federal Court ruled that legal protection of works is not restricted based on the medium in which it is presented. Current State of the Law on Tattoo Designs.

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Industrial Design through AI: Impact and Protection

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

While the increasing use of AI in the generation of designs and other artistic work has created serious challenges and ethical dilemmas such as the increased dependency on software and privacy risks, the calculated collaboration of the human mind in producing said designs is crucial for human development and critical thinking.

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Yearbook Defendants Lose Two More Section 230 Rulings

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

In particular, they are having some success bending Section 230, and this genre offers some interesting considerations for folks paying attention to the privacy/230 borders. The statutory exception for depicting people in literary and artistic works doesn’t apply to the associated ads (?). Callahan v. PeopleConnect, Inc.,