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Book review: Performing Copyright: Law, Theatre and Authorship

The IPKat

this Kat was delighted to review Performing Copyright: Law, Theatre and Authorship by Dr Luke McDonagh (Assistant Professor of Law at LSE Law School). This is the first academic monograph that solely considers the relationship between UK copyright law and historical and contemporary theatre.

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Copyright Laws & Trademark Infringement for NFTs

Traverse Legal Blog

Intellectual property or IP is a creative work or invention that one holds rights to. An NFT, or “non-fungible token” is a token added to a blockchain that links ownership to unique digital items (images, video files, audio files, artworks, etc.). An NFT shows proof of ownership for a digital object. Like us on Facebook- [link].

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The USPTO and USCO Delivered a Report to Congress on IP Issues with NFTs – Maintains Existing IP Regime

Intellectual Property Law Blog

Unsophisticated consumers may conflate the purchase of an NFT associated with a digital good with ownership of IP rights in that good. The Offices found: To the extent that an NFT is associated with a copyrightable work, the creation, storage, marketing, or transfer of that NFT may implicate copyright owners’ exclusive rights.

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Parliamentary Standing Committee’s Recommendations Concerning AI and IP: A Little Late or Way too Early?

SpicyIP

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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The USPTO and USCO Delivered a Report to Congress on IP Issues with NFTs – Maintains Existing IP Regime

LexBlog IP

Unsophisticated consumers may conflate the purchase of an NFT associated with a digital good with ownership of IP rights in that good. The Offices found: To the extent that an NFT is associated with a copyrightable work, the creation, storage, marketing, or transfer of that NFT may implicate copyright owners’ exclusive rights.

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Copyright & Technology 2022 Preview

Velocity of Content

From the invention of the player piano to the creation of the smartphone, copyright and technology have played a seemingly endless game of capture-the-flag. The upcoming Copyright and Technology Conference in New York on Tuesday, September 13th, plants both those flags firmly at Fordham University School of Law.

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DC District Court: AI-Created Works Ineligible for Copyright 

Patently-O

Thaler is the same individual who unsuccessfully attempted to protect and invention created by a separate machine that he had titled DABUS. 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.