IP Law 360

AUGUST 17, 2021

A California federal judge says Walt Disney Co. might owe a portion of the profits from "Beauty and the Beast," "Guardians of the Galaxy" and "Deadpool" to a digital effects company that claims its technology was unlawfully used to make the movies.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 31, 2023

Walt Disney Co. Walt Disney Company: The ‘Pirates’ Lawsuit The case is centred around ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’, a household name in the world of cinema. Walt Disney Company: The ‘Pirates’ Lawsuit The case is centred around ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’, a household name in the world of cinema.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 21, 2023

1] The Court reasoned that the defendant companies could not have possibly copied the script in question, as they did not have access to the script until after Ad Astra was written. Phillip Madison Jones, the screenwriter, sued Twentieth Century Studios, The Walt Disney Co., District Judge Fred W.

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IP Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2023

This creates a major problem. There are other types of AI beside GAI, and corporations and other stakeholders throughout multiple industries have been using them for years. Although the Copyright Office’s official guidance on whether you can be the author of AI output is a solid “maybe?,”

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 30, 2021

Nineties grunge-rock band Nirvana, already embroiled in a long-running legal battle against fashion company Marc Jacobs over its “happy face” t-shirt designs , now finds itself on the less happy end of a new copyright infringement lawsuit worthy of Dante’s trip through the underworld. Move over smiley face. copyright law. Nirvana LLC.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 24, 2023

This creates a major problem. There are other types of AI beside GAI, and corporations and other stakeholders throughout multiple industries have been using them for years. Although the Copyright Office’s official guidance on whether you can be the author of AI output is a solid “maybe?,”

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Barry Sookman

MAY 4, 2020

This is a question that is being studied including by the United States Patent and Trade Mark Office (USPTO) which launched an investigation into issues associated with patenting artificial intelligence inventions. In the meantime, the USPTO just released a decision denying the application for a such a patent holding that under the U.S.

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