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When is an artist entitled to refuse attribution of an artwork? Italian Supreme Court provides (final) guidance in long-running dispute over Jeff Koons’s The Serpents

The IPKat

As IPKat readers are surely aware, his fame extends well beyond the art world, given that Koons has contributed as litigant to some of the most interesting copyright case law around the world [see, eg, IPKat coverage here ]. Background In 1988, the artefact at issue in the Italian litigation was shown at an exhibition in Cologne (Germany).

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Intellectual Property and Artificial Intelligence Art

LexBlog IP

The growing popularity of art generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer just a question of whether it is morally right to replace human artists. How can this be considered an original artwork and who is the author? One case to watch is going all the way to the Supreme Court, Goldsmith v.

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Is Generative AI Fair Use of Copyright Works? NYT v. OpenAI

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The lawsuits brought by the owners of such works, including artworks in the case of image-generators and journalism in the NYT case, claim that this should not be allowed. In this regard, an important precedent lies in the history of US litigation involving Google Books. Copyright Office in its 2017 report on moral rights.

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