The IPKat

MAY 17, 2023

This is a review of Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Cultural Heritage , edited by Irini Stamatoudi , Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Cultural Heritage Law at the University of Nicosia. The edited collection does this through 29 chapters from an impressive list of contributors: Leila A.

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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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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

This is a book review of Teaching Intellectual Property Law: Strategy and Management edited by Sabine Jacques, Associate Professor in Information Technology, Media and Intellectual Property Law, University of East Anglia Law School and Ruth Soetendorp, Visiting Academic, City University of London and Professor Emerita, Bournemouth University.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The general consensus is that copyright law favors the publishers, but in a recent motion to dismiss, Elbakyan had other things on her mind too. Having asserted copyright ownership via assignment agreements and presented evidence that Elbakyan infringed their copyrights, the plaintiffs demonstrated a cause of action.

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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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Traverse Legal Blog

JANUARY 26, 2022

There was a recent story that is an instructive lesson in copyright law that has application to the NFT market. The article titled “Cryptobros spent $3 million on Dune book, believing it gave them copyright. Learn more about NFT Copyright Issues here. nThe book and the copyright ownership are two distinct things.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The Italian ‘ floral fractal ’ case This case concerned the commercial exploitation of a graphic work depicting a floral composition, adopted as a fixed background during the 2016 edition of the Sanremo Festival.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 22, 2022

The creation and development of copyright law are closely connected to technological and associated business transformations (see, e.g. here ). Yet, the very same automation poses challenges for the application of copyright law, increasing legal uncertainty, as demonstrated in this report vis-à-vis AI music outputs.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Right on the heels of Vedika’s earlier post , we are pleased to bring to you this guest post by Dr. Anson C J taking an in-depth look into the question of whether an AI-generated work is a “work” under the copyright law. Samuelson argues that, under current law, they are not. Helena Vasconcelos (et.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 4, 2023

The exclusivity of exploitation is key to the success of a limited-edition collectible. Ownership and Enforcement. Even if copyright is accepted in both the US and China as the most suitable IP for NFTs protection, challenges remain. Copyright Ownership. Two ideas of ownership have emerged under copyrights.

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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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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The growth of artificial intelligence (“AI”) and generative AI is moving copyright law into unprecedented territory. While US copyright law continues to develop around AI, one boundary has been set: the bedrock requirement of copyright is human authorship.

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SpicyIP

JULY 29, 2021

Section 51 deals with infringement, not exceptions, and Sub-section 51(1) does not even exist – showing how carelessly the Report has been drafted and edited.]. Historically, the exceptions for teaching, education and research have never been qualified by the nature of ownership of the institution where the use of the work is carried out.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 15, 2023

The copyright protection of tattoos” Dr Paula Westenberger (Brunel University) will be part of a webinar on 26 January 2023. This special issue will be jointly edited by (in alphabetical order) Stefano Barazza, Irene Calboli, Sarah Harris, Annette Kur, and Eleonora Rosati. More information is available here.

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SpicyIP

JULY 29, 2021

This post only deals with copyrightability of fonts from artistic work perspective and does not explore the copyrightability of fonts as code or literary works. Debunking the ‘no copyright for fonts’ Argument. This is perhaps why fonts cannot be copyrighted in the US.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

A key goal of the analysis is the reconciliation of the structure and legal tests applied in copyright law with the way authorial creativity develops as a process. A copyright lawyer will be familiar with legal issues on subject matter, originality, authorship and ownership. What is it? by Alexander Puutio. €

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The IPKat

JANUARY 2, 2022

COPYRIGHT Giovanni Maria Riccio and Fabiola Iraci Gambazza (E-Lex law firm) reported on the recent publication of the European Audiovisual Observatory entitled " Mapping report on national remedies against online piracy of sports content ", commissioned by the European Commission. disputes between domain names and trademarks).

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Something has recently gone awry with the law of copyright ownership in a movie or other film — a “cinematographic work”, as s. 2 of the Copyright Act RSC 1985, c. Part I of the Act deals with the ownership of copyright in works. A copyright owner may of course transfer the right as it wishes (s.

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 13, 2024

purchased the copyright in Wordle in 2022 from original developer Josh Wardle. in 1987 and has since been the subject of several reboots and dozens of international editions. An unsolicited Wordle of advice: In copyright law, as in life, just because you can doesn’t mean you should. .” The New York Times Co.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 5, 2022

Welcome to the first trimester of the 2022 round up of EU copyright law! In this series, we update readers every three months on developments in EU copyright law. The copyright in these two titles expired at the beginning of 2021. More from our authors: Law of Raw Data. Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 30, 2021

The new lawsuit raises a host of complicated legal issues that, while exciting for copyright nerds like me, are often a nightmare to litigate. Key among them is the extent to which pre-1978 works first published abroad without proper copyright notice are still protected under U.S. copyright law. on November 16, 1949.

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The IPKat

MAY 29, 2023

This Kat is pleased to review the “ Overlapping Intellectual Property rights ”, edited by Neil Wilkof [full disclosure: a member of the IPKat team], Shamnad Basheer, and Irene Calboli (OUP, 2023, 864 pp.). The volume is a beautiful testimony to the work of late Shamnad Basheer, who co-edited the first edition.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

In this part II we discuss two additional aspects, with a focus on UK copyright law and the EU copyright acquis. The First Sale Doctrine in the Metaverse The first sale doctrine, also referred to as the ‘ principle of exhaustion’ , is a longstanding tenet of copyright (and more in general intellectual property) law.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

This is a book review of The Future of Intellectual Property , edited by Daniel J. Underwood Chair in Law at Vanderbilt University Law School, US. In the introduction, Gervais explains that the approach to discussing IP law reform taken in this edited collection is considering both primary and secondary level reform.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 9, 2023

TLDR Generative AI is one of the hot topics in copyright law today. In the EU, a crucial legal issue is whether using in-copyright works to train generative AI models is copyright infringement or falls under existing text and data mining (TDM) exceptions in the Copyright in Digital Single Market (CDSM) Directive.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 24, 2022

In most cases, these proposals fail to adequately consider existing protection for AI outputs under copyright law and, where such protection is lacking, under related rights or (in limited cases) specific regimes for protection of computer-generated works. based on copyright protection of the AI outputs).

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LexBlog IP

JULY 21, 2021

Patent and Trademark Office granted ownership of the word “Jesus” to Jesus Jeans, owned by a publicly traded Italian company, BasicNet, giving the company exclusive rights in America to sell clothing bearing the name “Jesus.” copyright law. ” (at page 9 and 13). .” World Intellect.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 6, 2022

Just don’t forget about real world copyright law. ? What about editing some NBA Top Shots moments to create a fantasy matchup between Michael Jordan and Steph Curry? Here’s the first clause, section (i), dealing with ownership of the Bored Ape NFTs: “i. You Own the NFT. ” Sounds pretty good, right?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

In conclusion, it is worrisome to witness a drift towards a structured and unbalanced approach by national courts that, despite applying norms belonging to a different domain, affects the compromised and hard-fought solution that EU policymakers have reached in copyright law. 15 B.C.). 4] Tribunale Amministrativo Regionale (T.A.R.)

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

NFTs revolutionised the concept of ownership and digital art. NFTs have sparked several discussions raising questions on how this would affect IP Rights and what ownership of artwork, especially digital copies of artwork entails. However, the buyer of the NFT now had ownership over one unique copy of the same GIF.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

Recital 82 of the DSM Directive states: “ Nothing in this Directive should be interpreted as preventing holders of exclusive rights under Union copyright law from authorising the use of their works or other subject matter for free, including through non-exclusive free licences for the benefit of any users ”. Cornish’s solutions.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Well, when comic book stories, dialogue and artwork are merged together, they become a part of a single joint work as a matter of copyright law. As editor, Lee retained the right to edit, change or reject anything the artists or writers contributed. Why does this matter?

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 27, 2023

Kashtanova’s selection and arrangement of the images could be copyrighted (given that Ms. copyright law), that the images of the comic book itself could not be copyrighted as it was produced by a non-human. Instead, OpenAI treats the matter as one of ownership via contract law.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 20, 2022

1. Hors d’oeuvre: deconstructed Article 17 served on traditional copyright law principles. More from our authors: Law of Raw Data. Intellectual Property Law in China, 2nd edition. However, to arrive at the conclusion that Sweden has not implemented Article 17 yet is not entirely correct.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 17, 2023

The first research-oriented-only flexibility introduced in EU copyright law – Article 3 CDSM Directive on text and data mining for research purposes – has also been implemented almost verbatim by Member States, with only a few divergences on permitted uses and beneficiaries, usually in favour of broader approaches.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

My concern is that this instates an individualist romantic author at the centre of European Union copyright law and thus is likely to marginalise collaborative, improvised and spontaneous creativity. More from our authors: Law of Raw Data. Intellectual Property Law in China, 2nd edition. by Christopher Heath. €

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TorrentFreak

JULY 23, 2023

TorGuard’s originality and commitment to its core values are preserved as it continues to operate under its initial ownership – VPNetworks LLC and Data Protection Services. We use a simplified edition of Nagios to oversee hardware utilization, uptime, and latency associated with our VPN/Proxy, devoid of any extra modules.

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