IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

If any person imitates the ideas of any other creator, he would said to be infringing the original artist’s design and the copyright thereof. A copyright protection is the ability of a designer to protect his original designs through the copyright laws. What Is Copyright? Musical Works.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 13, 2024

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. Copyright law protects just the expression, not the idea itself.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 25, 2022

The notice, sent by anti-piracy company Irdeto on behalf of Blizzard Entertainment, is verifiably legitimate and addresses a genuine case of copyright infringement. As expected, the notice received full cooperation from Github under the DMCA and the offending content was removed as the law requires.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In a decision issued [1] November 27, 2023, a Chinese court ruled that AI-generated content can enjoy protection under copyright law. copyright law and may have far-reaching implications. The plaintiff sued for copyright infringement in May 2023. Background of Case The plaintiff used a U.S.-based

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Copyright Lately

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

As noted above, one of HitPiece’s co-founders is Rory Felton , who for years ran a record company and music publishing company, among numerous other music industry ventures. And rights in music is a really complicated issue. And that typically begs the question about rights. So there’s a lot of nuances out there.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Right on the heels of Vedika’s earlier post , we are pleased to bring to you this guest post by Dr. Anson C J taking an in-depth look into the question of whether an AI-generated work is a “work” under the copyright law. Samuelson argues that, under current law, they are not.

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IP Tech Blog

JANUARY 4, 2023

Through the secure blockchain technology, NFTs allow the creation and sale of exclusive and limited content in the form of collectible digital assets that can be transported on multiple media such as images, videos, or music. There are two cases that could help NFT owners better understand how to protect their property under copyrights.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

ChatGPT , Smodin ), to perform music (i.e., 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’).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

AI-generated works have won awards: The Crow , an “AI-made” film won the Jury Award at the Cannes Short Film Festival and the story of an AI artwork winning the Colorado State Fair’s annual art competition was reported in The New York Times. Registration was refused in August 2019, in line with previous US case law and guidance.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 4, 2023

Through the secure blockchain technology, NFTs allow the creation and sale of exclusive and limited content in the form of collectible digital assets that can be transported on multiple media such as images, videos, or music. There are two cases that could help NFT owners better understand how to protect their property under copyrights.

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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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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 23, 2023

A group of artists has filed a first-of-its-kind copyright infringement lawsuit against the developers of popular AI art tools, but did they paint themselves into a corner? You might assume that the concept of a “derivative work” under copyright law would be simple to define. The Copyright Act Definition is Broad, But.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 9, 2023

TLDR Generative AI is one of the hot topics in copyright law today. In the EU, a crucial legal issue is whether using in-copyright works to train generative AI models is copyright infringement or falls under existing text and data mining (TDM) exceptions in the Copyright in Digital Single Market (CDSM) Directive.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 16, 2023

Top 3 Kluwer Copyright Blog posts 1) Generative AI, Copyright and the AI Act by João Pedro Quintais “ Generative AI is one of the hot topics in copyright law today. ” 3) How to Distinguish Transformative Fair Uses From Infringing Derivative Works? by Pamela Samuelson “In March 2022 the U.S.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Within days, stock image supplier Getty Images announced that it was one of the “folks” who disagreed – and disagreed so strongly that it had commenced legal proceedings in the High Court in London alleging copyright infringement.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

AI and Copyright: More Developments – Human Prompts are Not ‘Direct Instructions’ After the Thaler case, the US Copyright Office passed another interesting order on AI-generated works, this time refusing the registration due to the work’s failure to meet the de-minimis threshold. Case Summaries Global Music v.

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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Breaking down Miramax’s copyright infringement lawsuit against Quentin Tarantino, a dispute about NFTs that isn’t really about NFTs. Fundamentally, an NFT is just a transactional record and a link to a digital asset (often an image of artwork or a document) stored somewhere on the web. The NFT isn’t the image.

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