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AI Faces Multiple Creator Lawsuits

Velocity of Content

Meta , the parent company of Facebook , and OpenAI , creators of ChatGPT , are facing numerous copyright infringement lawsuits from authors and artists. In a June 29 statement, the US-based Authors Guild applauded the filing of this litigation. These are unprecedented times for writers and creators,” the Authors Guild stated.

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Book Review: Research Handbook on IP and Moral Rights

The IPKat

Authors in the subsequent section explore industrial property rights, with Nari Lee delving into inventors and patents, Giorgio Spedicato shedding light on industrial design, and Genevieve Wilkinson discussing trade marks. Frankel argues that moral rights alone are insufficient to protect traditional knowledge.

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Book review: Reforming Intellectual Property

The IPKat

Dreyfuss, Séverine Dusollier, Christophe Geiger, Johanna Gibson, Jane C. Each author was asked by the editors to discuss an area of reform in IP that they deemed a priority in relation to the public good. Each author was asked by the editors to discuss an area of reform in IP that they deemed a priority in relation to the public good.

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When is a Government Official’s Social Media a State Action?

Patently-O

Emphasizing that private action lacks the “necessary lineage” to the State’s power or authority, the Court explained that an official must have “actual authority rooted in written law or longstanding custom to speak for the State” on the matter at hand for state action to exist. Quoting Kennedy v.

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Self-driving Culture

Kluwer Copyright Blog

One of your largest costs is the money you pay to people you like to call vendors but that the rest of us call authors. Indeed, reducing money paid to authors is reportedly one of the main reasons for the attempted merger of the two largest US publishing houses, now on hold after an intervention by the US competition law authorities.

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Sunday Surprises

The IPKat

Events 19 January 2023: “Vintage Brands and the New Bad Faith Conundrum” Fide Foundation and TIPSA (Transatlantic Intellectual Property Academy) will hold the 24 Global Digital Encounters on 19 January 2023. Interested authors are invited to submit articles addressing Green Economy issues from an IP perspective. More information here.

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The WIPO Files I: the quest to protect user rights

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The next meeting of the SCCR is expected to take place in the Spring of 2022 and the Committee has agreed to hold an information session on the impact of COVID-19 on “the cultural, creative and educational ecosystem, including copyright, related rights, and exceptions and limitations”. More from our authors: Law of Raw Data.