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EUIPO BoA IP Case Law Conference Report #5 : “Copyright in flux: What does the future have in store?”

The IPKat

Should the EU unify copyright laws? The session started with the highly disputed topic of copyright unification with Prof. The session started with the highly disputed topic of copyright unification with Prof. see Katpost here ) When finally addressing the question, "Should the EU unify copyright laws?"

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Czech court finds that AI tool DALL-E cannot be the author of a copyright work

The IPKat

The prompt used by the claimant in this case had been: “ Create a visual representation of two parties signing a business contract in a formal setting, such as a conference room or a law firm office in Prague. The defendant, a local law firm, subsequently copied the Image and used it on its own website (presumably, to prove a point?).

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The Not-Quite-So Legal Future for Web Scraping

Plagiarism Today

A wide myriad of laws impact, or at least can impact, scraping activities online. . The move follows a recent Supreme Court decision , which dealt with a police officer who used his access to official systems to access information for an unauthorized purpose. The CFAA is far from the only law that governs web scraping.

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Ferragamo did not infringe Audrey Hepburn’s image/personality rights by stating that its shoes were originally designed for her

The IPKat

The description available on its website concerning the history of the shoe – which was created in 1954 for Audrey Hepburn – was found to be lawful. In all this, it is worth recalling that, under Italian law, image/personality rights have traditionally received broad protection. The same was concluded for the other shoe models.

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Only Humans are Inventive?

Patently-O

Patent Law, because the U.S. In its newest decision on the topic, the Federal Circuit declares instead, for the purposes of patent law, an inventor must be human. In my mind, it was always clear that the Federal Circuit would refuse Thaler’s petition, but it remains a fascinating topic in my mind.

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A first look at the copyright relevant parts in the final AI Act compromise

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Among the additions to the Act’s scope is a set of rules for general-purpose AI (GPAI) systems and models, added to address issues raised by generative AI models such as GPT4 and Midjourney that have become available over the past two years.

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Guest Book Review: Teaching Intellectual Property Law

The IPKat

This is a book review of Teaching Intellectual Property Law: Strategy and Management edited by Sabine Jacques, Associate Professor in Information Technology, Media and Intellectual Property Law, University of East Anglia Law School and Ruth Soetendorp, Visiting Academic, City University of London and Professor Emerita, Bournemouth University.