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US Copyright Office and AI: Notice of Inquiry and the Théâtre D'opéra Spatial case

The IPKat

The USCO will use this information to analyse the current state of the law, identify unresolved issues and to advise the Congress. Midjourney The Work On 21 September 2022, Mr Jason Allen applied for copyright registration before the USCO naming himself as the author.

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Generative AI and Copyright – Some Recent Denials and Unanswered Questions

Intellectual Property Law Blog

Copyright Office’s denial of a copyright application for a work created using generative AI due to lack of human authorship ( Thaler v. The Copyright Office denied protection for Jason Allen’s science-fiction themed artwork “Theatre D’opera Spatial,” which he created with an AI tool called “Midjourney.” Perlmutter, et.

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AI and copyright in 2022

Kluwer Copyright Blog

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. The team has appealed the decision , so watch this space.)

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Generative AI and Copyright – Some Recent Denials and Unanswered Questions

LexBlog IP

Copyright Office’s denial of a copyright application for a work created using generative AI due to lack of human authorship ( Thaler v. The Copyright Office denied protection for Jason Allen’s science-fiction themed artwork “Theatre D’opera Spatial,” which he created with an AI tool called “Midjourney.”

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Generative AI, Copyright and the AI Act

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The biggest copyright law question in the EU and US is probably whether using in-copyright works to train generative AI models is copyright infringement or falls under the transient and temporary copying and TDM exceptions (in the EU) or fair use (in the US). In the aftermath of cases like Authors Guild v.

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