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Copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof 2015 – 2019 – Part 1 of 4: Definition of a work, authorship and moral rights

Kluwer Copyright Blog

This first part covers the definition of a work, authorship and moral rights. Parts 2 to 4 will address exploitation rights, related rights, exceptions and limitations, copyright contract law and enforcement. Moral rights (Sections 12-14 UrhG). 2] BGH, 16 April 2015, GRUR 2015, 1189. [3]

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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Over the course of a decade, Google copied large volumes of books and made them available online, both through excerpts, known as “snippets”, and as entire publications. Rather than focusing on the reproduction and dissemination of existing materials, the goal of AI is to rework them to create something new.

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Spanish Court finds that virtual exhibition of NFTs based on paintings is "harmless use"

The IPKat

Background As previously reported by the IPKat last year, VEGAP, a collective management organisation for intellectual property rights in Spain, brought a claim against Punto Na SA, the IP holding company for the well-known clothing brand Mango, seeking compensation in respect of the alleged infringement of copyright in certain artworks.

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Will—and Should—VARA Cover NFTs?

JIPEL Copyright Blog

Not only is there vast money to be made in creating NFTs—a recent Hiscox report found that NFT art sales have already hit $3.5 As artists increasingly express themselves through NFTs, will their moral rights be protected? But would a court ever attribute moral rights to the author of an NFT?

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IPSC Panel 14 – Copyright Authorship & Ownership

43(B)log

Twain gave her a signed & inscribed copy after publication, which descendants donated to UMd decades back. Peters starts out very formalist—you didn’t separately deliver the copies that you delivered to the gov’t, so no protection. Deals with © and moral rights, first sale, users rights. Seems unlikely.

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Metadata Ruling Gives YouTube a Timely Boost in Content ID Lawsuit

TorrentFreak

Copies of his images also appeared on other websites, again without the metadata. A Bloomberg Law report says the Eleventh Circuit adopted a “heightened standard” towards CMI, with Trace Jackson, an intellectual property attorney at Rogers Towers, offering his understanding of what that means. ——-.

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Can I register my architectural work? A glance through copyright in Peru

Garrigues Blog

Authors and their rightholders enjoy the moral and economic rights listed below – for 70 years, from January 1 of the year following the death of the author – regardless of nationality, domicile and notwithstanding registration: Moral Rights. Right of paternity: the right to claim authorship of the work.