Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 16, 2021

Gutierrez held that Arty had contractually given up ownership of the rights over remix composition, and therefore had no grounds to sue. The Remixer Declaration provides that Arty does not have any ownership or financial interest in the “underlying musical composition” embodied in the Remix Master. Background and decision.

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Intepat

MAY 24, 2023

TYPES OF IP CONTRACTS (1)INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ASSIGNMENT AGREEMENT The process of facilitating the transfer of ownership rights for various forms of intellectual property, such as copyrights, trademarks, patent, trade secrets, and other intangible creations is known as an intellectual property assignment.

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IP Tech Blog

JANUARY 4, 2023

Given that NFTs are the result of digital work that is transported in images, videos, photography and other forms of digital media, copyright seems to be the closest IP right to protect both the source code of the digital work, as well as its derivative works. Ownership and Enforcement. Copyright Ownership.

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Kashishipr

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Each work has various rights, such as theatrical rights, distribution rights, rental rights, broadcasting rights, rights related to adoption and translation, rights to prepare derivative works, and so on, each of which can be exploited separately. An assignment is, in spirit, a transfer of ownership, even if it is partial.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The ownership of an NFT is recorded in the blockchain, and can be transferred by the owner, allowing NFTs to be sold and traded ”. Crucially, the ownership of an NFT does not equate to ownership of an underlying asset. CC have offered some more detailed explanations around the use of CC0 with NFTs.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 22, 2022

The report complements the analysis of laws with a review of practices and contractual arrangements of claiming and attributing authorship and/or ownership by actors in the field of AI music creation. 1] (On the topic of AI outputs and derivative works, see here.). folk-rnn , Melomics ).

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 2, 2022

And unlike the vast majority of songwriters and performing artists who have relinquished ownership rights to musical publishers and record labels, Barlow & Bear decided to release “The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical” themselves, which means keeping more of the earnings. Was it a license on the world’s greatest terms?

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

AUGUST 13, 2022

As we are looking at communities as the owners and custodians of the TCEs, the ownership of copyrights should be collective. One way of awarding such ownership is by forming associations and societies with elected persons from the community itself. Another way of protection is by derivative works by the members of the community.

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Traverse Legal Blog

JANUARY 26, 2022

The token goes onto the blockchain, indicating ownership rights and potentially royalty rights for future transfers of the NFT, but not the underlying digital asset. nThe book and the copyright ownership are two distinct things. The right to create derivative works. See article below). What Are NFTs?

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

According to OpenAI, Silverman’s attempt to convince the court that every ChatGPT output represents a derivative work, “regardless of whether there are any similarities between the output and the training works” is an “erroneous legal conclusion.”

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Copyright Lately

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Without any ownership interest in the production bible, Scott had no right to assert a copyright infringement claim. As a result, it’s questionable whether Scott had any ability to claim infringement, even if he were able to show an ownership interest in the series bible in the first place.

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Patently-O

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

With copyright it is helpful to have some bright lines to streamline the process of registration without substantial case-by-case lawyer input for each copyrighted work, but any hard rule might skip over the nuanced. Although the notice focuses on copyrightability, ownership questions will also come into play.

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 25, 2023

Think of human modifications to AI as a quasi-derivative work—the copyright in a derivative work only extends to the material contributed by the author of that work , as opposed to the underlying material.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 4, 2023

Given that NFTs are the result of digital work that is transported in images, videos, photography and other forms of digital media, copyright seems to be the closest IP right to protect both the source code of the digital work, as well as its derivative works. Ownership and Enforcement. Copyright Ownership.

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The IPKat

JUNE 27, 2022

Consequently, the definition of NFTs as “certificate of authenticity” or “certificate of ownership” is not accurate. Yuga Labs, therefore, still owns the copyright in each NFT. All this implies the idea that, in the world of NFTs, the IP rights in the digital file are of secondary importance if not outright meaningless.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 27, 2022

This means that Congress provided copyright owners with the ability to recapture their works thus allowing the copyright owner to take actions such as renegotiating an agreement or creating their own works based on the original work.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 27, 2022

This means that Congress provided copyright owners with the ability to recapture their works thus allowing the copyright owner to take actions such as renegotiating an agreement or creating their own works based on the original work.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 16, 2023

After all, while we are pondering the weighty issue of future ownership, we are not focusing on the fundamental issue of wholesale copying of works to train AI in a wide variety of situations. This, of course, could be an accident based on true intellectual curiosity, but I do not believe it.

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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. Stability AI, three artists filed a claim on the basis that their work was used by the AI to train the algorithm and use them in a transformative manner to create new work. [5]

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Traverse Legal Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Third, a change in licensing can have downstream effects on derivative works and integrations, potentially leading to legal disputes or claims of copyright or patent infringement. It allows the contributor to retain ownership while granting Google the legal rights to use the contribution.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

As to economic rights, copyright implies an authorization for activities of reproduction, communication to the public, distribution and creation of derivative works (adaptation). Thus, ownership of such rights is crucial for exploitation purposes. When copyright is involved, both economic and moral rights issues are at stake.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

The Copyright Act motivates creativity by granting the author of an original creative work rights to reproduce their work, prepare derivatives works, and (in the case of pictorial or graphic works) display the copyrighted works publicly.

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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. Firstly, intellectual property rights grant startups exclusive ownership over their innovative ideas and inventions.

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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, you are not purchasing the copyright to this photo, as the website says, “Copyright ownership remains with the owner.”

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Third, a change in licensing can have downstream effects on derivative works and integrations, potentially leading to legal disputes or claims of copyright or patent infringement. It allows the contributor to retain ownership while granting Google the legal rights to use the contribution.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 6, 2022

Want to Create New Derivative Works? This still wouldn’t necessarily have given the buyer carte blanche to create new derivative works featuring the characters, as opposed to, perhaps, digital screengrabs from individual episodes. You Should Probably Read The License. You Own the NFT.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 1, 2023

Chrissy has created an unauthorized derivative work of the SpongeBob track (which probably won’t make Sire Records happy), but she likely hasn’t implicated any copyright interests in the UMG-owned Drake recordings that were used by Janet to train the original model. We own all sounds captured on a sound recording.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

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. Website owners can prevent the unauthorized reassignment of their ownership interests, such as someone trying to modify their copyright registration records.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

In 1963, Disney expressed skepticism about monopoly aspects of extended term and “expressed doubt that Congress would approve a longer ownership period.” Rosen, Fog and Fiction and Copyright Term Extension aka Who Framed Mickey Mouse? Authors’ groups were proponents. 1993 hearing, transcript not public before.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 12, 2024

” Domain names are also intangible, as are the records documenting domain name ownership, yet the court held they were capable of being converted. I guarantee that copyright owners will quote this statement to improperly assert ownership over uncopyrightable components of their “commercial websites.”

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 7, 2023

Thus, guided by the principle of equality, copyright operates as a spectrum of creativity, where the level of protection granted to a work corresponds to its level of originality. [2] 2] At one end of the spectrum, we find plagiarism: a completely derivative work that fails to contribute any creative elements to the original piece.

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Art Law Journal

JUNE 30, 2022

How To Win Big In a Copyright Infringement Case. Your Copy-Rights.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 31, 2023

Note that while Primary Wave has an indirect financial stake in “Betty (Get Money)” based on its ownership of Waterman’s piece of the song, the company isn’t named (or even mentioned) in Astley’s lawsuit. ” “The exclusive rights of the owner of copyright in a sound recording. ” 17 U.S.C. §

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SpicyIP

APRIL 15, 2024

The court in Warhol identified that the primary question is not about how the derivative work is different from the original work. For instance, companies like Adobe and Stability AI compensate human authors who contribute their work to AI training. If India adopts this, it must consider the burden.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 23, 2023

Due to the recurrent copyright difficulties, which have a significant impact on an individual’s business interest, it is imperative to preserve the ownership rights of digital works. NFTs are governed by smart contracts, which divide ownership and limit transferability. iii] NFTs are limited to having a single owner.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 3, 2023

Originally this was internal to substantial similarity, and it still is and should be until we get a better notion of substantial similarity—claim construction/scope/boundary—charting boundary b/t derivative works and things changed enough that they aren’t w/in the scope of © owner’s rights. This might be too hard to implement.

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Art Law Journal

JUNE 30, 2022

How To Win Big In a Copyright Infringement Case. Your Copy-Rights.

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