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Book Review: The Artificial Inventor - A Challenge for the Patent System

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Image: Thomson Reuters In ‘The Artificial Inventor’ ( Thomson Reuters ), Luz Sánchez García (University of Murcia) characterises humanity as standing at the cusp of an ‘Artificial Invention Age’ in which Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer used as a tool but rather a creative partner or independent innovator.

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Book review: Performing Copyright: Law, Theatre and Authorship

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And who poses moral rights in the work? McDonagh discusses the emergence of the author figure as the owner of a dramatic work by analysis of authorship and ownership of plays from the Elizabethan period up to the early twentieth century. In what circumstances can a director or actor be granted joint-authorship with the writer?

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Book review: Intellectual Property Protection for AI-Generated Creations

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In this chapter, Ramalho recommends that whilst copyright should not protect authorless works, an eventual neighbouring right might be enough to balance the interests at stake. She also highlights areas in need of further investigation, such as ownership and moral rights.

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Non-fungible Tokens: Commercializing Exclusive Digital Art- A Companion Piece

IPilogue

In this piece, I will recapitulate Strickland- Murphy’s exploration of IP ownership of Non-fungible Tokens and expand on recent developments since May. Given this situation, Ratajkowski’s NFT auction was, as Ratajkowski explains it, an opportunity to reclaim ownership over her photo. What are non-fungible tokens?

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The Legal Conundrum of AI as a Patent Holder: Affecting the Policy Decisions

IP and Legal Filings

The owner gets an exclusive right to use or sell for a specific time period as a legal right under the document which we refer throughout this paper as ‘patent’ The patent system is designed to encourage innovation by protecting the rights of inventors to their inventions. 3] In the case of V.B.

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A Brief Thematic Review of Non-Fungible Tokens and their Copyright

IP and Legal Filings

Introduction Intellectual property entails the protection of legal rights for inventions and creations made by individuals or businesses using their minds. Copyrights safeguard the artists’ rights in the inventive and imaginative content that abounds in digital media. iii] NFTs are limited to having a single owner.

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Book Review: Overlapping Intellectual Property Rights (Second Edition)

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The hypothetical case is an invention for a diagnostic device and method, all with the use of an artificial intelligence network to analyse data. The fictitious German inventors want to commercialise their invention, yet do not have sufficient funds to seek patent registration. In the second part, Harrison gradually unfolds the case.