IIPRD

APRIL 8, 2024

This article delves into the ongoing debate around the issue of right of ownership of copyright by AI generators for their novel artwork. This is a major point of contention in the realm IP laws today whether or not AI can be given the said rights and protections under law.

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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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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 4, 2023

In this blog post we examine how copyright is leveraged to protect NFTs, both in the US and China, with a comparative approach that elucidates both the challenges and potential solutions. Copyrights in the US are protected under the U.S. Copyrights in the US are protected under the U.S. Copyright Act. IP Rights and NFTs.

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 2, 2022

The full story behind Netflix’s copyright infringement lawsuit against Barlow & Bear, and why it’s actually a win for the fan fiction community. When it comes to copyright cases, Netflix has seen stranger things. First, as far as copyright cases go, this one’s easy.

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Intepat

MAY 17, 2024

Copyrightability of Prompts Prompt engineering is recognized as essential for harnessing the full potential of generative AI technologies, as it optimizes the interaction between humans and AI systems. Prompts are like computer code, can be considered literary works because they consist of written instructions or commands.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 16, 2023

As a person involved in copyright on a daily basis, I’ve observed a number of events and requests for comment over the last few years on the issue of whether artificial intelligence (AI) systems can be “authors” in the copyright sense (or inventors of patents). This article was originally published in The Scholarly Kitchen.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 1, 2023

If you’ve been glued to news coverage of the Ed Sheeran trial for the past two weeks, you may have missed an even bigger story from the world of music copyright. From a copyright perspective, these particular tracks are clearly derivative of both the original sound recordings and the underlying musical compositions.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

These rights provide exclusive ownership and control over intangible assets, allowing creators to protect their innovations from unauthorised use, reproduction, or distribution. Copyrights: Copyrights protect original works of authorship such as software codes, artistic creations, literature, music, films, etc.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 31, 2023

Is Rick Astley’s right of publicity claim against Yung Gravy for vocal impersonation on a collision course with the federal Copyright Act? To all the naysayers, I’ll remind you that Copyright Lately is considered a scholarly publication by several of this nation’s law schools, at least one of which is still accredited.)

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Traverse Legal Blog

JANUARY 29, 2022

The person who buys that NFT becomes the owner, and they can transfer ownership later, and that person becomes the new owner, and so on” -Enrico Schaefer, NFT Attorney. In this example, I am showing you how to get this free copyright license to attach to the NFT. The person selling is not assigning you the copyright.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

WhenU concluded that copyright was a dead-end. In this lawsuit, the plaintiffs aren’t suing Google for violating their copyrights or trademarks. 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. Wells Fargo v.

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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

AUGUST 7, 2023

Goldsmith et al sheds light on different perspectives of copyright law in common law and civil law countries. This brief post dives into this duality, as exampled by American and Brazilian law. Firstly, both Brazilian and American legislation stipulate that the creator of a work holds copyright over it.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 23, 2023

Copyrights safeguard the artists’ rights in the inventive and imaginative content that abounds in digital media. Image Sources : Gettyimages] One of the important issues in online is copyrights. One such area where copyright violations are common is the internet. These advantages can be made profitable for the owner.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 12, 2024

Instead of asserting copyright and trademark claims, they tried trespass to chattels. Worse, it’s not clear the users have a “possessory interest” in those bits due to the possibility that copyright and contract law that may limit what users can do with those bits. Why are we revisiting this crusty old topic?

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Copyright Lately

MAY 6, 2022

Just don’t forget about real world copyright law. ? If you remember just a few concepts that I’ll discuss in this post, you’ll be way ahead of the game when it comes to buying, selling and exploiting creative works, whether it’s in the metaverse or here in the boring old regularverse. Buying Copyrights.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

She is keenly interested in Intellectual Property Law, Technology Law, and Corporate Law ]. Hulm asserted ownership of copyright on the app on the basis of a copyright registration of a literary concept note detailing the working of its app, arguing that the app is an adaptation of the literary concept note.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 17, 2023

What does all that mean for companies looking to develop generative AI, and the online sources of their training data that might be looking to stop them? ¯_(ツ)_/¯ We can infer from this opinion that treatment of Copyright Management Information (“CMI”) will be tricky for generative AI developers. Complaint at 31. Not all was lost, however.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

Professor Cornish compared the laissez-faire , or risk-sharing, approach of the Anglo-American law to the more author-protective constraints on copyright contracts in continental jurisdictions, endorsing the latter. On this prompt, Prof. Thus, it is possible for a U.S. Reversion of rights That said, some balance is offered in the U.S.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Justin Koo, Exporting Fair Use to Developing Copyright Systems Difficult to grow when the law doesn’t have flexibility—across the Commonwealth Carribean. A relatively new willingness to litigate, but lack of awareness/understanding of copyright law in Carribean is a barrier. Is fair use/fair dealing the answer?

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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Breaking down Miramax’s copyright infringement lawsuit against Quentin Tarantino, a dispute about NFTs that isn’t really about NFTs. Tarantino is being billed as the first major legal dispute involving copyrights and NFTs, it really isn’t a dispute about NFTs. Frankly, it’s barely a dispute about copyrights.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 21, 2021

That question is “how have various countries’ intellectual property laws addressed efforts to copyright, trademark, or patent holy names, sacred words, or outputs of creation?” context to see how various other countries have responded to such challenges as well, not only in copyright but in trademark and patent too.

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 6, 2023

The copyright owner in Runt is seeking to enjoin director William Coakley from releasing a behind-the-scenes project about alleged on-set bullying and sexual harassment that it claims he fabricated. At the time of his death, the 20-year-old Boyce was working on what would prove to be his final film, the independent coming-of-age drama Runt.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The lawsuit seeks a declaratory judgment that Trump owns the copyright in the sound recordings (or in the alternative, in his interview responses on the recordings), and that Trump is entitled to all or the lion’s share of the profits made from the sale of those recordings and transcripts, which the lawsuit (absurdly) values at almost $50 million.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 10, 2024

That then plays off the rest of the title’s allusions to separating “subjects” from the “predicates” of copyright ownership, themselves words connoting the foundational elements of both “ any complete sentence ” and at times a court’s jurisdiction over infringement matters. ” H.R.

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