Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Copyright Office and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office held a conference on machine learning and copyright law (see “ Copyright Law and Machine Learning for AI: Where Are We and Where Are We Going ?”). Copyright Office launched a study to examine the copyright law and policy issues raised by generative AI.

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IPilogue

JUNE 30, 2022

The defendants however contended, in their written response, that: Film titles are not entitled to IP protection; There is no probability of confusion between the defendants’ business and the plaintiffs’ movie; “ Sholay ” is a dictionary word (translation: embers). As stated above, Canadian copyright law also does not protect titles of works.

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Traverse Legal Blog

APRIL 6, 2021

My name is Internet Law Attorney Enrico Shaefer, and today we’re going to be talking a bit about the intersections between technology and the law. . Business Happens on the Internet. It’s a whole different place, and there is now a lot of business conducted on the internet. The World Has Changed.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Most significantly, “the development of blockchain technology” has been accepted as a legal business activity by the Indonesian standard industrial business categorization code, which was published in 2020. Copyright: NFTs are closely related to artworks that are the subject to copyright and related rights protection.

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Traverse Legal Blog

MARCH 8, 2022

The image of the Crypto Punk linked to the NFT placed on to the blockchain is copyright protected. The art inside the gallery is protected by COpyright law. Copyrights protect original works of authorship, such as the digital asset being offered with the NFT. Copyrights protection for the artwork itself is also critical.

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Patentably Defined

AUGUST 28, 2022

The purpose of a trademark is to prevent other businesses from using it without permission, in order to avoid confusion among consumers. Copyrights A copyright gives the creator of an original work exclusive rights to reproduce, distribute, perform, and display that work for a certain period of time.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

This AI system — the so-called “Creativity Machine” — produced the artwork titled “ A Recent Entrance to Paradise ”. After its creation, he attempted to register this work with the Copyright Office. Copyright Office, Compendium of U.S. Hence and copyright law was therefore not designed to reach them. 102(a) ; U.S.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Private Servers Upset Business Model On a base level, Genshin Impact is free-to-play but through so-called ‘gatcha game’ mechanics, players are encouraged to spend virtual currency earned in-game or purchased outside the digital realm using real money.

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IPilogue

MARCH 18, 2022

Once a symbol of revolution, the Flag was dropped by Sports Clubs and up-and-coming businesses which did not want to pay royalties for its use. Crown Copyright in Other Jurisdictions. Provisions for copyright ownership by the Crown are a consistent feature of copyright laws in commonwealth countries. Looking Ahead.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 4, 2023

The emergence of blockchain-supported Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) has captured the interest of the entertainment and business worlds in the past couple of years. NFTs are both a new creative form of intellectual and artistic expression and a lucrative business opportunity. Applicable IP rights.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 20, 2022

NFTs began as a sub-culture of sorts for artists to sell work in a digitised format, but they are now increasingly becoming mainstream, with many major businesses and fashion houses creating their own NFT projects. As we have just seen, one set of legal uncertainties arises from questions of copyright law.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JUNE 23, 2022

Background (NFT Copyright). The case focused around a comic image depicting a chubby tiger receiving a vaccine shot, which was one of many artworks from the popular cartoon series “ Fat Tiger ” released on Weibo, China’s principal social media site, by a Chinese artist. Shenzhen Qice Diechu Cultural Creativity Co.,

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JUNE 23, 2022

The case focused around a comic image depicting a chubby tiger receiving a vaccine shot, which was one of many artworks from the popular cartoon series “ Fat Tiger ” released on Weibo, China’s principal social media site, by a Chinese artist. It will be intriguing to follow up case law in this area as it makes progress.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

Cairo Economic Court’s Ruling For the uninitiated, the Egyptian Copyright framework is set under book three of law n o 82 of 2002 for the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights (Egyptian Copyright Law – ECL) where enforcement is protected through two distinct means, being civil and criminal proceedings.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

Cairo Economic Court’s Ruling For the uninitiated, the Egyptian Copyright framework is set under book three of law n o 82 of 2002 for the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights (Egyptian Copyright Law – ECL) where enforcement is protected through two distinct means, being civil and criminal proceedings.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 5, 2023

The campaign hopes to pay a lobbyist $187,500 to “educate government officials and policymakers” on a new threat to the creative industries – AI-generated artwork. The Concept Art Association says that some of the money will go to the Copyright Alliance, which already lobbies the government on behalf of its own members.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Apart from revolutionizing the creative markets, the ability to obtain new artworks with an increasing marginalization of human contribution has inevitably tested the fitness of copyright legislations all over the world to deal with the so-called “artificial intelligence” (‘AI’). ChatGPT , Smodin ), to perform music (i.e.,

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

AUGUST 27, 2022

A website is an essential asset to any form of business today as it forms a part of the business identity. The domain name of the website may be protected by Trade Mark laws, whereas the contents of the website- the text, artwork, photographs, audio-visual content etc. Is the protection of patent available for website?

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Copyright Lately

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

The HitPiece Business Model. In a January 24 interview with the “ Business Builders ” podcast that has since been deleted (are you sensing a pattern here?), Rory Felton, “Business Builders – Boise” Podcast, January 24, 2022. HitPiece, We Have A Problem. So there’s a lot of nuances out there.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 14, 2023

In a policy paper , copyright and art-law experts led by the author clarified the general copyright law principles applicable to stakeholders dealing with digital cultural heritage worldwide and formulated recommendations, addressed to policy-makers, to facilitate their digital activities. Proposal 4.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 10, 2023

However, in 5Pointz the building owner consented to the artwork installation. Copyright Law grants the author the exclusive rights to exploit the work, subject to certain fair use defenses. Laws can also vary by jurisdiction. Copyright Act is the primary section that grants rights to visual artists.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 31, 2023

” Artificial intelligence would become “part of our core business” by “enhancing the quiz experience, informing our brainstorming, and personalizing our content for our audience.” Protection of AI-Generated Content Content that is wholly created by AI is not copyrightable or patentable.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 10, 2023

It is capable of writing articles, translating, summarizing and answering follow-up questions and can also create content that can be protected under copyright law. It is like ChatGPT, but the users get priority access during busy times and faster response times. OpenAI has introduced a paid version called ChatGPT Plus.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 18, 2022

NFTs can be based on three-dimensional items or artwork, or can be purely digital creations—for example, a collectable digital sneaker or a token used in a videogame. Most NFTs are protected under US Copyright Law as creative works and/or may be derivative works based on pre-existing copyright-protected works.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

Authors Kennington Groff and Jaime Chandra Kozlowski delve deep into the potential implications of a landmark Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) case that sent ripples through the art world, impacting copyright law including fair use and commercial licensing.

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43(B)log

JULY 20, 2022

15, 2022) The parties in this case are former business associates, which is one reason there are so many different claims. Though the parties went forward, “they never signed a formal written document memorializing and defining the nature of their business relationship.” Stubenrauch, 2022 WL 2793579, No. 3:21-cv-00545 (M.D. 1” therein.

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IIPRD

AUGUST 4, 2022

Unlike offline business sectors, original material on the web is simply and freely accessible to anyone. Social media influencers sign contracts with businesses to promote their products by providing original content for such brands. Subscribe to copyright for original videos, audio recordings, pictures, writing, and artwork.

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IP Tech Blog

MARCH 18, 2022

NFTs can be based on three-dimensional items or artwork, or can be purely digital creations—for example, a collectable digital sneaker or a token used in a videogame. Most NFTs are protected under US Copyright Law as creative works and/or may be derivative works based on pre-existing copyright-protected works.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In order to train their technologies, should AI companies be allowed to use works under copyright protection without consent? The lawsuits brought by the owners of such works, including artworks in the case of image-generators and journalism in the NYT case, claim that this should not be allowed. copyright law.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 23, 2023

Introduction Intellectual property entails the protection of legal rights for inventions and creations made by individuals or businesses using their minds. Such works of art benefit the creator, and they are protected by the law of intellectual property. Image Sources : Gettyimages] One of the important issues in online is copyrights.

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Art Law Journal

JUNE 16, 2022

It’s heartbreaking to find your artwork on a t-shirt at Forever 21 or as an image on someone’s blog without your permission. Congress included a “statutory damages” provision in the Copyright Act to ensure that artists receive guaranteed compensation for an infringement along with making any infringement case easier and faster to litigate.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Presently, a new reference from the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) asks the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) for vital interpretive guidance concerning the parody exception within copyright law. This approach, initially applied to cultural politics by Dentith, can be similarly adopted within copyright law.

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The IP Law Blog

JANUARY 12, 2023

When looking into company assets protectable under federal copyright laws, one should check the company’s website, marketing materials, manuals, YouTube videos, podcasts, posted content on Instagram, TikTok, and the like, photos, software, blog posts, articles, white papers, etc.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 7, 2023

Goldsmith et al sheds light on different perspectives of copyright law in common law and civil law countries. This brief post dives into this duality, as exampled by American and Brazilian law. Firstly, both Brazilian and American legislation stipulate that the creator of a work holds copyright over it.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 8, 2024

In an ever more fragmented digital landscape, this provision has become a key instrument of self-regulation, playing a crucial role in the allocation of rights and obligations around the licensing of copyrighted works as training data (see here ).

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The IPKat

AUGUST 24, 2021

This book review of Art and Copyright by Simon Stokes (Partner at Blake Morgan) is kindly provided to you by Alexander Herman, Assistant Director, at the Institute of Art and Law and co-directs the Art, Business and Law LLM developed with the Centre for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary University of London.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 12, 2023

When looking into company assets protectable under federal copyright laws, one should check the company’s website, marketing materials, manuals, YouTube videos, podcasts, posted content on Instagram, TikTok, and the like, photos, software, blog posts, articles, white papers, etc.

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