IPilogue
MARCH 29, 2023
In March 2022, the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (“CIPO”) allowed its first artificial intelligence (AI)-authored copyright registration of a painting co-created by the AI tool, RAGHAV Painting App (“RAGHAV”), and the IP lawyer who created RAGHAV, Ankit Sahni. RAGHAV is the first non-human “author” of a copyrighted work.
Plagiarism Today
JANUARY 18, 2022
The fact that so few copies exist means that burning it may run afoul of the Visual Artists Rights Act (VARA) if the editions are signed and numbered. In other nations, moral rights may prohibit that. In short, the group wrongly assumed that purchasing the book granted them the rights in the book itself.
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Kluwer Copyright Blog
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Second, the juxtaposition in the summary of the Canadian and US copyright registration systems is risky. Then of course I would love to see the machine exercise its moral rights. More from our authors: Guide to EU and UK Pharmaceutical Regulatory Law, Eighth Edition by Sally Shorthose € 265
The IPKat
FEBRUARY 21, 2022
Topics include access and substantial similarity, fair use, performers’ rights, moral rights, expert testimony, the role of lay listeners, sound sampling, as demonstrated in dispositions of litigated and settled infringement disputes. Registration is open here. pre-publication event: EULAs: Friends or Foes?,
IPilogue
MARCH 29, 2023
Though the AI tool is a co-author with a human, the registration suggests that both RAGHAV and Ankit Sahni can constitute an author under the copyright regime and raises concerns amongst Canadian artists. Though Kashtanova edited the Midjourney images, the Office held that the creativity supplied did not constitute authorship.
43(B)log
AUGUST 11, 2021
Determined to prevent forfeiture, courts found—often on very thin evidence—that authors implicitly transferred rights, defying statute. SCt provides an ex post rationalization: before the author registers the rights, the author doesn’t have a ©, so the statutory requirement of written assignment doesn’t apply before registration.
43(B)log
FEBRUARY 19, 2022
(c) does grant authors “rights in something he created” and that “already belong to him” at common law and is taken after a few short years from him and his heirs. Natural or moral right to own fruit of labors. Rests on natural moral right to enjoy products of own exertion and no interference with anyone’s right to do likewise.
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