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How A Century-Old Insight of Photography Can Inform Legal Questions of AI-Generated Artwork (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Do these creations belong to the artists or the public domain? Copyright in Photographs, Established in Late 1800s The age-old strife between new technology and old law is epitomized by a hundred-year-old story of how copyrights came to exist in photographs after the invention of the camera. By guest blogger Prof.

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2023 IP Resolutions Start with a Review of IP Assets

The IP Law Blog

A company should always be aware of any new inventions under development, and it is good practice to investigate the status of any inventions developed by company employees during the past year. Such inventions may be protectable under federal patent laws.

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A Brief Thematic Review of Non-Fungible Tokens and their Copyright

IP and Legal Filings

Introduction Intellectual property entails the protection of legal rights for inventions and creations made by individuals or businesses using their minds. Copyrights safeguard the artists’ rights in the inventive and imaginative content that abounds in digital media. These advantages can be made profitable for the owner.

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Which Type of Intellectual Property Protection Do I Need?

Art Law Journal

Few people would want something that they put their heart and soul into creating, whether that’s art, music, design, or an invention, being used or sold without their permission. Utility patents cover the way an invention works while design patents cover the way an invention looks. That’s understandable.

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2023 IP Resolutions Start with a Review of IP Assets

LexBlog IP

A company should always be aware of any new inventions under development, and it is good practice to investigate the status of any inventions developed by company employees during the past year. Such inventions may be protectable under federal patent laws.

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Role Of Intellectual Property Rights In The Era Of Quantum Technology

IIPRD

The general objective of copyright is to encourage creativity, freedom of expression and technological process by assuring designers, artists, composers, authors, and other creative people, who take risk of their capital in presenting their works before the public domain. Patent Protection and Enforcement.

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WIPIP Session 8 (copyright)

43(B)log

Karp agrees that (c) is not like land, which preexisted the public domain and was acquired and distributed by gov’t. (c) Justin Hughes: discoveries just means inventions. Tension b/t invention and discovery. Q: Why are photos rejected less than artwork? Where does he get it from? They get to bolster the USTR.