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EUIPO BoA IP Case Law Conference Report #6 – “Crafting the Future: New perspectives for Geographical Indications”

The IPKat

The session considered the more traditional "AGRI GI" regime (which will be updated when the new Regulation (EU) No 2024/1143 enters into force) and the new Craft GI instrument alongside pivotal topics like the interplay between GIs and EU certification and collective marks, together with the third-country dimension to GIs.

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Still No “RKO” for Copyright Law After US Court’s Damage Award in Randy Orton Tattoo Dispute

IPilogue

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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The Copyright Challenge with Mastodon

Plagiarism Today

Since Elon Musk purchased the company and made himself CEO, the company has been the subject of a massive layoff, an exodus of employees and a slew of other controversies. The fallout seems to have even impacted Twitter’s copyright filtering tools. Have a Designated Agent to Receive Notices of Copyright Infringement.

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Generative AI, Copyright and the AI Act

Kluwer Copyright Blog

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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Book Review and Reader Discount: Copyright and Cartography

The IPKat

This is a review of Copyright and Cartography : History, Law, and the Circulation of Geographical Knowledge, by Professor Isabella Alexander , University of Technology Sydney, Australia. I can’t speak for the historians but, as a certified copyright nerd and the IPKat book review editor, I have read hundreds of books about copyright.

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Computer-Generated Electronic Images & The Article of Manufacture Requirement: The USPTO Declines to Extend Subject Matter Eligibility to “Disembodied” Designs

LexBlog IP

” As suggested by the title of the notice itself, the USPTO did not expand its interpretation of the subject matter eligibility of computer-generated electronic images under Section 171, but instead reiterated its current practice noting that “[t]his supplemental guidance does not change the current guidance [ i.e. , MPEP § 1504.01(a)(I)

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Book Review: Research Handbook on IP and Moral Rights

The IPKat

The topics vary. By addressing the concepts of authorship and moral rights, as well as subject matter requirements, they evaluate AI and creative works to tackle the question of originality of AI-generated works. The fourth part offers a comprehensive overview of the challenges to moral rights.