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Is Artist's Permission Required to Reproduce Artwork in Exhibition Catalog?

Dear Rich IP Blog

That's because when an artwork is sold, the buyer only acquires ownership of the physical work, for example, the framed painting. As the Seventh Circuit held , “a copyright is not transferred automatically with the transfer of the copyrighted good [thus] when you buy a book, you don’t obtain the right to make and sell copies of it.”

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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

Copyright Office took a stance against generative-AI works, cancelling a copyright claim by author Kris Kashtanova for comic book images made with the aid of Midjourney. s advertisement for hats, copying Sarony’s Oscar Wilde No. But artists’ ability to own these works is hardly clear. Earlier this year, the U.S. Ehrich Bros.’s

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Matricide, Movies and Salinger

Dear Rich IP Blog

I have read that the "change of ownership" of this collection is considered a publication. Does paying the library for their use put the burden of ownership/copyright on them? Transfer of ownership ≠ transfer of copyright. Physical ownership of a work is not the same as copyright ownership. Is that correct?

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Still No “RKO” for Copyright Law After US Court’s Damage Award in Randy Orton Tattoo Dispute

IPilogue

This is a far cry from the revenues earned on the WWE 2K games, which have sold hundreds of thousands of copies each. This discussion raises questions of personal agency and asks how an artist can have ownership over their client’s body, even though it’s how their work is physically fixed.

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Copyrighting the Ogopogo Monster: The © story behind the news story

The IPKat

He found 17 entries related to a range of products from books to wine, chocolates, suntan products, clothing, and soft drinks. There were 18 registered copyrighted works related to the Ogopogo, including books, posters, artwork, videos (in some cases, supposedly of the creature itself) and dramatic works.

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Generative AI and Copyright

IP and Legal Filings

The introduction and advancement of generative AI technology, which is capable of producing everything from research articles to realistic artworks, has brought a revolution in the field of creativity. There will be serious consequences for assigning other than human ownership to AI-generated creations.

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NFTs and Copyright: Some Burning Issues

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Significantly, the vast majority of NFTs do not include a copy of the underlying work ‘as is’, but rather, only include the alpha-numeric signature or URL that is associated with the underlying work, although some low-resolution artwork is stored on the blockchain with the NFT. The communication to the public right.

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