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NFTs: promisingly transformational, yet fraught with IP pitfalls – Part I

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Image by Tumisu via Pixabay Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are altering society’s notion of digital ‘ownership’ and redefining the common perspective on distribution of original works to consumers by introducing scarcity to the digital realm.

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Types of Intellectual Property Contracts

Intepat

TYPES OF IP CONTRACTS (1)INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ASSIGNMENT AGREEMENT The process of facilitating the transfer of ownership rights for various forms of intellectual property, such as copyrights, trademarks, patent, trade secrets, and other intangible creations is known as an intellectual property assignment.

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If “Trespass to Chattels” Isn’t Limited to “Chattels,” Anarchy Ensues–Best Carpet Values v. Google

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Plaintiffs want and expect Google to copy and display their websites in Chrome browser and Search App, and acknowledge that Google has license to do so.” The Kremen case involved the alleged theft of the sex.com domain name by improperly modifying the electronic records evidencing ownership of the domain name. ” Wait, what?

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Web Page Framing Isn’t Trespass to Chattels–Best Carpet Values v. Google

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

In a framing case, the plaintiffs’ web servers aren’t the affected chattel because the plaintiffs’ web servers delivered the web pages directly to users’ devices, after which the framer (Google) superimposed its frame on the web pages once the copies were in users’ RAM. ” Even this correction is suboptimal.

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How Can AI Models Legally Obtain Training Data?–Doe 1 v. GitHub (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

According to the complaint, these separate entities are just one big data-sharing family, leveraging their combined resources in non-standard ways such as Microsoft sharing hardware and cloud infrastructure resources in exchange for an ownership interest in OpenAI. Complaint at 31. 22-cv-7074-JST, ECF No.

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IPSC Breakout Session #2: mostly copyright and then marijuana innovation

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The majority says that limiting doctrines account for Kagan’s examples—which involved use of expression—as well as the dissent’s own copying and the Court’s too. Data mining legal documents, work product, court cases, and then create work based on previous work. But data mining has been found to be a fair use.

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Generative AI, Copyright and the AI Act

Kluwer Copyright Blog

As currently worded, the transparency obligation to “document and make publicly available a summary of the use of training data protected under copyright law” is impossible to comply with. Does such an output infringe on a copyrighted work of a third party, especially those works “ingested” during the training stage of the AI system?

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