The IPKat

APRIL 25, 2024

Here’s what they write: Generative AI, originality, and the potential role of contract in protecting unoriginal works by Adrian Aronsson-Storrier and Oliver Fairhurst Artificial Kat Over the past two years the IPKat has hosted debate on the question of whether the outputs of generative AI tools are protected under copyright law.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 2, 2022

On April 22, artist JL Cook filed a class action lawsuit against Facebook owner Meta , alleging that the company is failing to take adequate steps to prevent counterfeit ads from appearing on its site. Cook is an artist who sells sculptures of snakes on her site Snakearts.com. They estimate that class to be in the thousands.

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IPilogue

MARCH 2, 2023

Recently in Alexander v Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc , a jury of the US District Court of the Southern District of Illinois concluded that tattoo artist Catherine Alexander has a valid copyright claim in the designs she tattooed on World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. Copyright protection over tattoos has been a hot topic for some time.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Protecting jewellery with the aid of intellectual property rights is a topic of interest which sparks curiosity. This signifies that it does not cover artistic work but rather the features of the product that make it more attractive to the consumer. However in the case of A.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 2, 2022

This is a venerable question–I remember evaluating it as a possible law review note topic 30+ years ago. Even so, the court’s almost-banal treatment of this super-interesting topic suggests that there may not be much tattoo exceptionalism in copyright law. Nature of the Work. Background. Amount Used. ” Huh? .”

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IPilogue

MARCH 11, 2022

Flowers and Female Ukrainian Artists. Tetiana Pata, Nadia Bilokin, Paraska Pavlenko, Iryna Pylypenko, and Pelaheia Hlushchenko are known as the “founding mothers” of the transformative period of Petrykivka art where local artists integrated the style to their traditional mediums following its re-discovery.

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IIPRD

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

[Image Sources: Shutterstock] Protecting such outstanding works of art and property through the use of intellectual property law is undeniably a sound strategy. One of the law’s most distinctive features is its protection of the authors’ moral rights, which ensures that creators of all kinds of art may lay claim to their work.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 9, 2024

Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law (Columbia Law School) Daryl Lim , H. It will also cover the contrast between EU and U.S. regulations. Hansen IP Institute at Fordham Law School), the panel features (in alphabetical order): Robert Arcamona , Director and Associate General Counsel, IP (Meta) Jane C Ginsburg , Morton L.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Unfortunately, the recent decision in WaterRower v Liking [2022] EWHC 2084 (IPEC) was not that case, despite many reporting in the aftermath of the decision that UK copyright has been extended to protect a rowing machine as a ‘work of artistic craftsmanship’. . A work of artistic craftsmanship is a sub-category of an artistic work.

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IIPRD

APRIL 3, 2024

Protection of Fashion: IPR Indian fashion houses have begun to toe the line of Western fashion houses by registering their designs and fashion works as IPR. [4] At the outset is it important to note that interpreting these legislations gives rise to uncertainty, one which forms the topic of discussion in the next section.

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IIPRD

APRIL 8, 2024

The ambit of IPR when it comes to recognizing these AI generators and whether they are also capable of copyright infringement by transforming other creators work has been discussed in detail in the article. 2] This shift i.e. from assisting work to generating it has taken the legal regime of IPR by a storm of confusion and questions.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 23, 2023

A group of artists has filed a first-of-its-kind copyright infringement lawsuit against the developers of popular AI art tools, but did they paint themselves into a corner? Once trained, the tools can create, not “seemingly new images,” as plaintiffs assert, but entirely new works from the ground up. Andersen v.

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IPilogue

APRIL 7, 2022

The team manages a variety of different files, including protecting and promoting Indigenous Arts and Cultural Expressions, working with various international IP committees, consultations on IP and cultural policies, various research projects related to cultural industries, and more.

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The IPKat

JULY 9, 2023

On the contrary, this book looks at the evolution of the practice and thinking of street artists, illustrated by numerous key issues and their personal testimonies. The main advantage of this book is that the author's comments are backed up by numerous artists' testimonials on very specific points.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

MARCH 25, 2021

This, in part, is due to the recent headline news that Beeple’s iconic digital art work was sold at auction by Christie’s for $69 million. book, movie and other publishers that have unique characters and other IP; artists who created have physical or digital works; other IP owners. where and how the NFTs are distributed.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The artist behind the painting on the cover graciously permitted reproduction of the work under certain conditions, including the use of a pseudonym. The topics vary. The authors emphasize that AI cannot hold moral rights and that in the absence of an author, the work should be in the public domain.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Images generated using text-to-image technology, including DALL-E 2 , Midjourney , and Stable Diffussion , have become a main topic in AI. Not only do many express wonder about how these systems work, but there is even doubt whether such users even have rights to such outputs. We can use computers and data science for this purpose.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 22, 2023

All of this information can be used to make homebrew AI tracks that mimic the sound of one’s favorite artists. This is a highly controversial topic in the music industry, with many insiders suggesting that commercial use of these models could breach copyright law. However, it stresses that AI itself isn’t the problem.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 3, 2023

In the intellectual property sphere, one of the hottest topics surrounding the use of these AI tools is whether the works of art or inventions (including works of industrial design) created using these tools can still be considered the creation of the individual author or designer. copyright law.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The word and the song that it titles has remained a part of our lexicon for nearly sixty years and, despite being a famous tongue-twister (so much so, it was featured in a recent Mental Floss episode on the topic ), has been on the tongues of generations. However, in 1965, there was a very different conversation about the song. Bottom Line.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 5, 2021

This feature allows users to listen to songs from an album, playlist or EP in an order not chosen by the user or the artist. According to the artist, it should be removed to respect her artistic choices, which include choosing the order of songs within albums. If so, to what extent? A cascade of questions.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 24, 2021

Here is what Alexander has to say: It was a delight to learn last year that Simon Stokes, copyright solicitor at Blake Morgan in London, was working on a third edition of his eminently useful Art and Copyright. On 30 September, his new book Restitution: The Return of Cultural Artefacts will be published by Lund Humphries.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The primary goal of copyright law is to safeguard the interests of creators of original, publishable works. The purpose of copyright protection is to make sure that the artist reaps the rewards of creating their original work and that no one else benefits unfairly from it. These creations are regarded as artistic.

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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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IPilogue

DECEMBER 13, 2021

As part of the course requirements, students were asked to write a blog on a topic of their choice. What if that filter features a makeup artist’s work? 5(1) of the Copyright Act , copyrights subsist in artistic works such as photographs or paintings. The sound of your alarm marks the start to your day.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The question in that case was whether the creator of an expressive work, a work that enjoys First Amendment protection, could be liable under the Lanham Act and state right of publicity laws for using a celebrity’s name in the title of that expressive work. One such case is 20th Century Fox Television v.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The White House Executive Order on AI (“EO”) is comprehensive and covers a wide range of topics. One of the topics which raises many legal issues, particularly with generative AI (“genAI”), is intellectual property. We provided a summary here. It addresses many of the risks and problems that can arise with AI.

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Intepat

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Chefs are now working hard to improve the visual experience. This article will discuss a topic related to the complex subject of “food plating” and how it is protected under copyright law. At the moment, there is no explicit rule or ruling in place in order to protect artistic work used in the plating of a dish.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

We have worked hard to revitalize our culture. Much like the case of Jolie, the sweaters quickly became a topic of controversy , as the Cowichan Tribes of Vancouver Island alleged the sweater designs had been appropriated from one of their traditional designs. Kakiniit was banned like our ceremonies and languages were banned.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 7, 2024

Generative AI, Copyright and the AI Act by João Pedro Quintais Generative AI is one of the hot topics in copyright law today. Copyright for AI-generated works: a task for the internal market? Copyright for AI-generated works: a task for the internal market? Should AI be attributed as an author of AI-generated works?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The Italian ‘ floral fractal ’ case This case concerned the commercial exploitation of a graphic work depicting a floral composition, adopted as a fixed background during the 2016 edition of the Sanremo Festival.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Anson C J taking an in-depth look into the question of whether an AI-generated work is a “work” under the copyright law. Image produced by using a generative AI model ‘AI Generated Work’, ‘Computer Generated’ and ‘Work’ in Copyright: Whether AI Generated Work is a ‘Work’?

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 9, 2021

As part of the course requirements, students were asked to write a blog on a topic of their choice. In Canada, copyright protection is afforded to every original literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic work that is fixed. Artistic Work. It’s no secret that memes have taken the internet by storm. Originality.

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JIPL Online

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

1] It’s not uncommon to hear artists complain about record label contracts once they see the impact their deals have on the control of their own music. [2]. To understand the source of the problem, it’s first necessary to understand the copyrighted work at issue in many record label agreements. BACKGROUND.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 14, 2022

The RIAA cited the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA, claiming that the tool could be used to download their artists’ musical works from YouTube, in breach of copyright. In October 2020, the RIAA caused outrage by taking down YouTube-ripping tool youtube-dl from GitHub. Threats Were Also Sent to Others.

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Velocity of Content

AUGUST 9, 2022

I knew a bare minimum about him, but my trip to the museum immersed me in a whole world of Warhol that included a panoply of works from installation art to his more iconic pieces. One work , which I had not previously known about, consisted of a black room with silvery balloons moved by fans this way and that.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Glyn Moody says about the book: “Ed Sheeran and Dua Lipa get sued for alleged plagiarism and the majority of creators see pennies for their work, while the revenues of the record labels are exploding. How can we promote creativity and help artists and make a living in the digital age? What should we do to solve all these problems?

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