Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JUNE 23, 2022

In China’s first copyright infringement case including NFT digital work, a court recently decided. Background (NFT Copyright). On Bigverse, the plaintiff learned that a user had created and sold a nearly similar NFT digital work to the copyrighted item in dispute, complete with the artist’s Weibo watermark.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 14, 2022

In April 2020, Disney filed a copyright complaint with Google, stating that Club Penguin Rewritten’s domain (cprewritten.net) not only infringed its rights in artwork but also its trademarks.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 22, 2023

However, Warhol went further and created a series of artwork based on Goldsmith’s photograph. Years later, Goldsmith granted a limited one-time use license for Vanity Fair to use one of her photos of Prince as an “artistic reference for an illustration.” The illustration was Andy Warhol’s portrait of Prince known as “Purple Prince.”

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 28, 2021

1: Bungie & Ubisoft Sue Destiny 2 Cheatmakers Ring-1 For Copyright Infringement. The lawsuit alleges that the group is committing copyright infringement not only because they are making derivative works based upon their games, but because they are circumventing copyright protection tools.

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 31, 2024

Video game publisher Atari Interactive has launched a copyright infringement lawsuit against State Farm, claiming that the insurer improperly appropriated artwork from Atari’s 1983 arcade game “Crystal Castles” for an advertising campaign as part of a “cynical plot” to resonate with fickle millennial and Gen Z consumers.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Introduction AI-generated art is booming, and the Indian Copyright Office is baffled. AI generated art is made autonomously by artificial intelligence without human creative input (see below for the artwork Dall-E 2 created in response to my suggestion “a machine painting a canvas”). The basis for registration is not specified.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 8, 2021

3: PokerPaint Boss Brett Butz in New Copyright Theft Row over Artwork NFTs. Finally today, Andrew Burnett at PokerTube reports that the PokerPaint saga appears to be continuing as the company is offering a new line of NFTs, many of which feature copyright infringing issues. PokerPaint has not responded to the allegations.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

1: Shenseea Hit With Second Copyright Lawsuit For US$450,000 Over ‘Foreplay’ Video. First off today, Claudia Gardner at DancehallMag reports that Jamaican dancehall artist Shenseea is facing a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Stephanie Sarley, a visual artist who accuses Shenseea of infringing the copyrights of three of her pieces.

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Recently, Shein is once again being sued for copyright infringement. District Court, Central District of California, on June 15 suing Shein for over $100 million in damages for unauthorized reproductions of her artwork “One is good, more is better.”. In 2019, Mollman registered this artwork with the U.S.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

JUNE 1, 2023

In a 7-2 majority opinion authored by Justice Sotomayor, the court found that both Warhol’s artwork and Goldsmith’s original photograph served the same purpose of depicting Prince in magazine stories about him. The commercial nature of the copying further weighed against fair use.

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IPilogue

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Background Banksy’s graffiti artwork Laugh Now first appeared in Brighton, England, in 2002. Typically, artists protect their artwork using only copyright law. However, artists are required to reveal their identity when claiming copyright infringement. street artist Banksy.

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IIPRD

APRIL 8, 2024

This article delves into the ongoing debate around the issue of right of ownership of copyright by AI generators for their novel artwork. This question even after a broad reading of the Indian Copyright law remains unanswered, demanding an amendment in the present law or more clarity on the same by the way of judicial decisions.

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

In the last 20 years, the contemporary art industry has doubled the number of auction houses participating in the sale of artworks. Digital platforms have made it increasingly easy to disseminate unauthorized copies of art works that are copyright protected. Image Source: gettyimages]. IPR and contemporary art. McDonald’s Corp.:

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 1, 2023

courts are addressing lawsuits brought by artists alleging that AI-generated art infringes on copyrights held by the artists for their artwork. A written decision from the court is forthcoming, and that decision could be an important one for plaintiffs and defendants alike in current and future AI-related copyright cases.

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Olartemoure Blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

He used a cropped photo based on one of Goldsmith’s images to create his artwork. There was no image copyright credit or compensation to Lynn Goldsmith. The photographer threatened to sue the Foundation alleging copyright infringement.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 15, 2023

IPNews® – This week, a federal judge in Miami ruled that artwork featuring a banana duct taped to a wall does not infringe the copyright of a banana and orange duct taped to a wall. In a very bizarre case, the judge ruled that the idea of affixing fruit to a wall with duct tape cannot be protected by copyright.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 9, 2022

As reported, in 2020, the copyright office rejected an application which listed AI (RAGHAV) as the sole author for an artwork. However, a second application was filed where a natural person and an AI (again (RAGHAV) were named as co-authors for another artwork. This copyright office granted registration in this case.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 30, 2024

In addition, concerns have been raised regarding the authenticity and possession of the artwork, the involvement of the artist, and the authorship and ownership of its copyright in relation to the integration of artificial intelligence into the artistic process. Two major obstacles can be recognized in this context.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

First off today, Adam Schrader at UPI reports that New York artist Kris Kashtanova has received a copyright registration for a graphic novel entitled Zarya of the Dawn , representing the first known copyright registration granted to a work of AI-generated artwork.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 22, 2022

Movie studio Miramax, which owns most of the rights to the film, sees the plan as a contract breach and copyright infringement. For example, the early artwork featured iconic depictions of Samuel L. The original artwork was labeled as copyright-infringing by Miramax so this change appears to be a direct response to this claim.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 27, 2022

3: Immersive Experiences and Copyright: TeamLab Sues MODS for ‘Copying their Artwork’ Finally today, Jonny Walfisz at Euronews reports that the Tokyo-based art collective teamLab has filed a lawsuit against the Los Angeles-based museum, the Museum of Dream Space (MODS) alleging copyright infringement.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Unfortunately, however, Section 113(c) is like the Generation X of copyright law—it’s remarkably useful, underrated, and largely overlooked—even by copyright lawyers and judges. One of Deadly Doll’s popular designs is a cartoon image of a bikini-clad pin-up girl holding a skull: Deadly Doll’s original artwork.

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IPilogue

JUNE 13, 2022

Listing someone else’s artwork on an NFT marketplace is as simple as saving a copy of the work from an artist’s website or social media platform and uploading it onto a marketplace where it is minted into an NFT. Alternatively, authors can inform marketplaces of copyright infringement and request the removal of infringing content.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 7, 2022

King was convicted of being the leader of a variety of companies that traded in copyright infringing products. Stephen Thaler has filed a lawsuit against the United States Copyright Office (USCO) hoping to overturn the USCO’s decision to not grant a copyright registration for an AI created piece of artwork.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 31, 2023

This week’s big IP news is the New York Times suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, trademark dilution and other violations of existing laws. As with most current cases related to AI’s copyright infringement, this one will most likely result in the issuance of a landmark ruling. Microsoft Corp.,

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CoCal IP Law Institute

APRIL 9, 2022

On Monday, April 11, 2022, Chris Kopitzke will lead a discussion of the issues before the Supreme Court in the long-running copyright infringement case based on Andy Warhol’s “Prince” series of artworks, and about the CAFC’s recent holding that a party lacked Article III standing to challenge the TTAB’s ruling on likelihood of confusion involving [.]. (..)

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TorrentFreak

JULY 1, 2022

NFTs are not without copyright issues, however, as Quentin Tarantino swiftly discovered. Movie studio Miramax, which owns most of the rights to the film, sees the plan as a contract breach and copyright infringement. NFT Copyright Battle.

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Intepat

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

AI-generated art represents a fusion of human ingenuity in crafting algorithms and the machine’s ability to produce artworks autonomously. To delve deeper into the question of ownership, we need to grasp the traditional concept of copyright. Copyright laws are designed to safeguard the rights of creators.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

On October 30, Judge Orrick issued a written decision to that effect, dismissing all but one claim for direct copyright infringement by Stability AI on behalf of just one plaintiff. As we’ve previously written , the defendants in those cases raised the same “substantial similarity” question as in Andersen.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2022

(DDI) acted with willful blindness in submitting a fifth Takedown Notice to Amazon asking that auto stickers it alleged infringed its licensed artwork be removed from the site.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 18, 2021

Most notably, that included the PUBG Corporation, which filed a lawsuit against Epic Games in May 2018 for alleged copyright infringement. To be clear, this doesn’t mean that a copyright infringement or other lawsuit is coming. Still, that didn’t stop many from accusing Epic games of ripping off PUBG.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

This case involves Morford’s 2001 artwork named “Banana and Orange.” Cattelan created artwork named “Comedian” in 2019. The court displayed the respective artworks: Morford sued Cattelan for copyright infringement. ” Independently (?),

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 24, 2023

According to Mojang, these are all copyright infringing, even though they may not all use copyrighted content directly. Exact source code or pixel perfect images do not need to be in the repo to constitute copyright infringement,” Mojang writes. However, that doesn’t completely stop the problem.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The Regulations inter alia prohibit public performance, communication, reproduction or broadcasting of a work that is copyright-protected unless one is licensed to do so by the Copyright Office, or is authorised by the owner of the work or it is free to use in accordance with the Copyright Act.

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Corsearch

AUGUST 24, 2023

Identify the type of infringement Facebook will remove listings and posts that infringe your intellectual property, covering five categories: counterfeits, copyright infringement, brand abuse (which includes other forms of trademark infringement), design infringement, and patent infringement.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 5, 2022

For example, early artwork featuring Samuel L. The original image was labeled as copyright-infringing by Miramax so this change appears to be a direct response to this claim. In addition, several tweets from the Tarantino NFT team with alleged copyright-infringing material were deleted as well.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Last week, we asked for your input on whether certain images generated by AI programs were substantially similar to the Plaintiffs’ original artworks, as alleged in Andersen v. Stability AI. The second prong of the test requires a showing of “copying” and “unlawful appropriation.”

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