Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

The 2006 GA authorized negotiations for a diplomatic conference on the Broadcast Treaty only on “traditional” broadcasting and cable casting and only adopting a “signal based” approach. See Love 2023. Requires “exclusive right of authorizing the retransmission to the public” instead of a signal based protection.

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 25, 2023

But while human involvement is essential to copyright protection, the mere presence of a human author doesn’t provide some secret backdoor way of making AI-generated content copyrightable. What if AI-Generated Content is Modified By a Human Author? In these cases, copyright will protect the human-authored aspects of the work.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

Such mandatory wealth transfers between private parties should be way outside the zone of legitimate governmental authority. In contrast, there are a few well-capitalized AI incumbents who would love to have regulators help them clean out their competition. These two differences create a fertile ground for disastrous regulation.

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 4, 2023

A (Hopefully) Simple Example As an example, take the classic song “ I Wanna Be Loved By You ” from the 1928 musical Good Boy. At this point, “story elements—including characters covered by the expired copyright—become fair game for follow-on authors.” Conan Doyle Estate, Ltd. Bert Kalmar, m. Wolfe Gilbert, m.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 15, 2022

” ― James Joyce , A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN , Chapter V. [T]he T]he application.identified the author of the Work as the ‘Creativity Machine,’ and noted it was ‘Created autonomously by machine.’ ’ — Complaint , paragraph 17 in Thaler v. Complaint , par.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 6, 2022

James Freed is city manager for Port Huron, MI. (It The panel then closes the door (emphasis added): “In all these instances, a public official operates a social-media account either (1) pursuant to his actual or apparent duties or (2) using his state authority. It appears this is an appointed, not elected, position).

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