Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

Understanding Mask Work Mask work is a type of intellectual property protection designed to protect layout designs (topographies) of integrated circuits. Under the SCPA, a mask work is a series of related images that forms a design or part of a design used to produce an integrated circuit. In particular, Section 1213.2

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Nelligan Law

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Today, tattoos serve as deeply intimate expressions of identity and selfhood, with each design narrating a unique tale and mirroring the innermost musings, sentiments, and escapades of the wearer. In the realm of tattoo artistry, the tango between creativity and copyright law is a delicate affair, riddled with complexities and nuances.

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Intepat

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

This burgeoning genre is not only pushing the boundaries of artistic expression but also challenging the established norms of copyright ownership. This blog post embarks on a comprehensive journey to unravel the complex issue of copyright ownership in AI-generated art.

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IP Tech Blog

JANUARY 4, 2023

In turn, this attracts interest from businesses ranging from fashion and sports brands, sport teams, designers, game developers, and other content owners. The purpose of copyrights is to protect creative works, including writings, from infringement. It has been debated whether NFTs/DC could be protected in China by design patents.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 11, 2022

What does this have to do with law? A business code communicating within a community designed to be closed. There’s a lot of literature and case law; focus of courts and scholars is on the extent to which freedom of expression ought to operate. A: her concern is divorce law, though comparison is worthy.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 18, 2022

” China’s copyright law protects the expression of ideas instead of ideas themselves, which is similar to U.S. copyright law. ” China’s copyright law protects the expression of ideas instead of ideas themselves, which is similar to U.S. copyright law.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

This book review of Intellectual Property Law in Nigeria: Emerging Trends, Theories And Practice by Desmond Oriakhogba (University of the Western Cape, South Africa) and Ifeoluwa Olubiyi (Afe Babaloloa University, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria) is kindly provided by Kasim Waziri , Professor of Law at the University of Abuja, Nigeria.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 27, 2023

Again, the takedown requests target several stores that sell clothing with a print of this meme, with ‘Musk’ claiming ownership of the memes themselves. One of the DMCA Notices Aside from memes, ‘Musk’ also targets a design that hits closer to home. In turn, some Musk takedowns report entirely unrelated designs.

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Traverse Legal Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

AI tools offer unprecedented assistance in content creation, from automated editing to graphic design, and push the boundaries of creativity. This article explores the intricate world of AI and copyright, providing insights and guidance for those at the forefront of digital content creation. Understanding the U.S.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 4, 2023

In turn, this attracts interest from businesses ranging from fashion and sports brands, sport teams, designers, game developers, and other content owners. The purpose of copyrights is to protect creative works, including writings, from infringement. It has been debated whether NFTs/DC could be protected in China by design patents.

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IIPRD

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A thorough awareness of intellectual property laws is crucial, regardless of your career goals—be they that of a fashion designer, singer, filmmaker, or just someone curious about the legal side of entertainment. Law and the courts encourage innovation by guaranteeing its unrestricted flow while continuously attempting to avert abuse.

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IPilogue

MAY 18, 2022

Mariela Gutierrez Olivares is an IP Innovation Clinic Fellow and a 2L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. CIPO has reached a conclusion after they recently issued copyright to a piece of art with an AI tool listed as a co-author (along with a human co-author). Pina D’Agostino. Countless more AI creations may be underway. .

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 27, 2023

The court summarizes the case: “plaintiffs allege that YouTube has violated the copyright laws by withholding broad access to Content ID… Plaintiffs also allege that YouTube automatically strips metadata out of uploaded videos, including copyright management information (CMI), which makes it harder to catch infringing conduct.”

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IPilogue

MARCH 18, 2022

Pankhuri Malik is an IPilogue Writer and an LLM candidate at Osgoode Hall School of Law. Mr. Harold Thomas, the artist and copyright holder of the Australian Indigenous Flag (“the Flag”) is an Elder of the Indigenous community. He designed the Flag in 1971 as a symbol of Indigenous resilience and representation. v Teranet , Inc.

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Intepat

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Copyright, defined as the exclusive right granted to the creator for their intellectual labor, holds significance in the legal domain. According to Black’s Law Dictionary, copyright is acknowledged as a right in literary property, sanctioned by positive law. What is Registered Copyright?

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Can a work entirely created by a machine be protected by copyright? Thaler then requested a reconsideration of the decision, arguing that the human authorship requirement would be contrary to the US Constitution and be unsupported by either statute or case law. Such a request was once again unsuccessful.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 11, 2023

Mask work is a type of intellectual property protection designed to protect layout designs (topographies) of integrated circuits. Under the SCPA, a mask work is a series of related images that forms a design or part of a design used to produce an integrated circuit. source code) under copyright law.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 1, 2023

What is Copyright The term “copyright” describes a group of legal privileges that belong to the person who first created an original work of authorship, such as a piece of literature, music, film, or software. The owner of the copyright, or the person who created the original work, has control over it.

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The IPKat

MAY 17, 2023

The Court held that in the absence of directly comparable source code in a software copyright infringement and misuse case, records of conversations, meetings, timelines, and e-mails can be used to show ownership of copyright, highlighting the importance of keeping a record of this information.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 19, 2023

AI tools offer unprecedented assistance in content creation, from automated editing to graphic design, and push the boundaries of creativity. This article explores the intricate world of AI and copyright, providing insights and guidance for those at the forefront of digital content creation. Understanding the U.S.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 18, 2023

In this case, Thaler listed the Creativity Machine as the author and designated the work as created autonomously by the AI, with ownership transferring to himself as the owner and creator of the machine. The Copyright Office denied the registration application on the grounds that copyright law requires human authorship.

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IIPRD

JANUARY 5, 2023

A growing number of daily releases makes India’s copyright laws particularly important in. The Copyright Act of 1957 enters the picture at this point, offering security against a number of dangers that the manufacturers would otherwise have to bear. Introduction. Who Owns What and Why.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 22, 2023

“Libraries have always been free under copyright law to lend materials they own as they see fit. This is a feature of copyright law, not a bug,” the brief reads. “Fair use was designed to address precisely this type of market failure. Thus, CDL should be upheld under fair use.

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The IPKat

JULY 11, 2021

Copyright IPLens blog looked at several recent decisions of the Court of Milan, to see how the CJEU Cofemel decision has impacted on the copyright protection of industrial designs [see also an IPKat post the Kiko case, where the Italian Supreme Court applied Cofemel to Kiko store layout]. The current battle is over a U.S.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 24, 2023

8] Who Owns The Copyright In Ai? When it comes to AI, there are various entities for which a claim for copyright could be made: Programmer: One of the main contention of granting ownership to AI is that it is the programmer who designs, creates, or trains the computer software, without which the AI system would not have been created.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 9, 2021

In this post, I will be analysing the recommendations pertaining to the amendment of patent laws in order to facilitate inventorship and ownership by AI. I will be restricting the discussion to the evaluation of the Indian patent regime, as the implications of AI on Indian copyright law has been previously dealt with here.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Indeed, human creators seek compensation for the novel use of their intellectual efforts while AI firms aim to maximize the free harvesting of data (including copyright-protected materials) for training their algorithms. It is very likely that many more cases will be brought to courts in the near future. Secondly, para.

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Intepat

JUNE 15, 2023

It thus becomes crucial for them to safeguard their creations through effective intellectual property laws. Hence, the purpose of this blog is to delve into the significance of copyright protection, the limits of protection and the remedies against infringement. What is copyright protection? Who owns the copyright?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 1, 2023

Construing these allegations as true and in Service’s favor, Service subjectively believed that he possessed an ownership interest and that he never approved the Comedy Dynamics deal. I’m pretty sure the drafters of 512(f) never contemplated that it would be invoked in disputes over ownership.

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The IPKat

APRIL 25, 2024

Here’s what they write: Generative AI, originality, and the potential role of contract in protecting unoriginal works by Adrian Aronsson-Storrier and Oliver Fairhurst Artificial Kat Over the past two years the IPKat has hosted debate on the question of whether the outputs of generative AI tools are protected under copyright law.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 2, 2022

TRADE MARKS Lise Charles (WTR) provides an overview of the most-read posts on Word Trademark Review (WTR) on European trade mark case law over the past year, including analyses of cases dealing with issues such as unconventional signs (i.e., Julie Zerbo tells the rest of the story on The Fashion Law.

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43(B)log

JULY 20, 2022

CC has a recent trademark registration for a design mark “consist[ing] of the stylized wording ‘COLOR COPPER.COM”, [with] a diamond shape between the wording ‘COLOR’ and ‘COPPER’ made up of four smaller diamonds, each diamond having a pattern inside of it,” COPPER.COM disclaimed. There’s no written agreement” will do it.]

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Larson & Larson

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Product designers, inventors, and artists of all types need to understand the meaning of intellectual property and how to protect their creative contributions. . Products that derive from the human intellect that the law protects from unauthorized use are defined as intellectual property. Code covers patent law. .

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In his application, he identified the author as the Creativity Machine, and explained the work had been “ autonomously created by a computer algorithm running on a machine ”, but Thaler sought to claim the copyright of the “ computer-generated work ” himself “ as a work-for-hire to the owner of the Creativity Machine. ” 102(a) ; U.S.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

APRIL 16, 2020

There are very clear records in the post-1978 Copyright Office database indicating copyright ownership but this person is insisting it is an invalid copyright because there is no “©” insignia anywhere on head or tail. What about the copyright records?

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 28, 2023

One of the primary legal concerns is related to copyright – both in terms of protecting the work generated and the concern of infringing someone else’s work. Copyright law protects original works of authorship, including literary works like blog articles. Many are concerned with the potential for plagiarism.

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CopyrightsWorld

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

While even individuals face this challenge, digital creators like photographers, writers, publishers, poets, visual artists, logo designers, illustrators, music & video creators and lyricists are being affected tremendously and left wondering what to do to protect their rights? Copyright basics still apply in the digital world.

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