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European Copyright Directive: Which Stage is the European Union At?

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On 19 April 2019, the European Parliament and Council adopted the Directive on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market. Even though national laws require due diligence obligations of diverse scopes, each nation’s laws and practice will ascertain the meaning of the “best efforts”.

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What is the Copyright Status of AI Generated Works?

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So, if you’re intending to use an unusual, highly distinctive image generated by AI, you may want to do some due diligence to establish that there is no obvious infringement. If so, that image would infringe copyright in the original. You would be liable if you were making use of the infringing output.

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Copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof 2015 – 2019 – Part 4 of 4: Copyright contract law and enforcement

Kluwer Copyright Blog

This does require a violation of a due diligence obligation, however. In the view of the BGH, an infringement of the film producer’s related right does not require that a copyright protected part had been used. The BGH assumed that an infringement of the related right of the film producer had occurred.