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2023 IP Resolutions Start with a Review of IP Assets

The IP Law Blog

Understanding the extent of a company’s IP holdings usually starts with what’s known to the company, such as all registered copyrights, trademarks, or patents, domestic and foreign. After compiling a list of those IP assets, the next step would be to review what the company is using and compare that to the list of registered or pending IP.

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Copyrights Not Limited To Humans, AI Creator Tells DC Circ.

IP Law 360

An artificial intelligence inventor challenging the U.S. Copyright Office's refusal to register an AI-generated artwork has asked the D.C. Circuit to reverse a lower court's ruling upholding the government agency's decision, arguing the law "explicitly allows for non-human authors."

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2023 IP Resolutions Start with a Review of IP Assets

LexBlog IP

Understanding the extent of a company’s IP holdings usually starts with what’s known to the company, such as all registered copyrights, trademarks, or patents, domestic and foreign. After compiling a list of those IP assets, the next step would be to review what the company is using and compare that to the list of registered or pending IP.

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IP Protection for Artificial Intelligence

LexBlog IP

Copyright Office put an end to every primate’s dream with a 2014 memo that read “only works created by a human can be copyrighted under United States law, which excludes photographs and artwork created by animals or by machines without human intervention.” ” (Emphasis ours). ” (Emphasis ours).

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Role of Intellectual Property in Entertainment Industry

IIPRD

In this sector, intellectual property (IP) regulations are essential for defending the rights of inventors, artists, and producers. Copyright and trademark are the most important IP rights in this industry. It gives authors and artists the sole ownership rights to their original writings, music, films, and artwork.

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National IPR Policy : An Analysis

IP and Legal Filings

Intellectual Property Right The rights and privileges accorded to persons over their creative works, such as innovations, works of literature, and artwork, as well as use of names, logos and pictures in trade are known as intellectual property rights (IPR). The purpose of the Policy is to link IP investors and creators.

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

IP and Legal Filings

IP owners must plan and safeguard their unique creation from any prospective infringements because NFTs have a distinguishing trait. [ii] As a result, the Indian Copyright Act, 1957 grants the owner of the artwork or the licensee sole rights to discharge copyrights that have already accrued under the statute. x] Person & Kelley S.