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AI Generated Art and its conflict with IPR

IIPRD

This article delves into the ongoing debate around the issue of right of ownership of copyright by AI generators for their novel artwork. 2] This shift i.e. from assisting work to generating it has taken the legal regime of IPR by a storm of confusion and questions.

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What Copyright’s “Unclaimable Material” Rules Mean for Hollywood’s Use of AI

Copyright Lately

Howell ruled last Friday that the Register of Copyrights did not act “arbitrarily or capriciously” in denying a copyright registration to Dr. Stephen Thaler for artwork generated entirely by artificial intelligence.

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Which Type of Intellectual Property Protection Do I Need?

Art Law Journal

Copyright is the type of Intellectual Property most often associated with artistic works like fine art, movies, or books. Copyright only protects: original works of authorship fixed in a tangible medium. For example, anybody can publish a book about three teenagers who solve magical mysteries at a wizarding school.

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Which Types of IP (Intellectual Property) Protection Do Artists Need?

Art Law Journal

Copyright is the type of IP most often associated with artistic works like fine art, movies, or books. Copyright only protects: original works of authorship fixed in a tangible medium. More importantly, because the work must be tangible, that also means that an idea can’t be copyrighted , only the execution of that idea.

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How to Avoid Pitfalls on the Way to Decentralized Disney

Copyright Lately

You can also tell your book club that you read it even though you really stopped at page 136. The same rule applies to digital artworks sold as NFTs. That is one expensive book. Want to Create New Derivative Works? So, if you buy a copy of “Dune,” you can read it. You Should Probably Read The License.

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The clash of artistic rights: Warhol, Goldsmith, and the boundaries of copyright in Brazil and in the U.S.

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Thus, guided by the principle of equality, copyright operates as a spectrum of creativity, where the level of protection granted to a work corresponds to its level of originality. [2] 2] At one end of the spectrum, we find plagiarism: a completely derivative work that fails to contribute any creative elements to the original piece.

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Miramax, Tarantino and a Fight Over Bright Shiny Objects

Copyright Lately

Miramax claims, among other things, that the preparation and sale of these derivative works constitutes copyright infringement because the contractual rights Tarantino reserved in his 1993 agreement with Miramax don’t cover NFTs. Again, NFTs are just an ownership record and a link to content. The NFT isn’t the image.

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