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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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EU law: Generative AI, copyright infringements and liability – My guess for a hot topic in 2024

Kluwer Copyright Blog

It does seem like the topic of AI and copyright was everywhere in the copyright world last year. While some digital topics have been known to cause a great commotion in copyright circles only to later sink practically without a trace, unless I am mistaken, the issue of the copyright implications of AI is different.

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Sanderling Management v. Snap Inc. No. 21-2173 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 12, 2023) Alice – 35 U.S.C. § 101

Intellectual Property Law Blog

Topic This case addresses patent eligibility under Alice and whether the district court should have afforded the patent owner leave to amend its complaint. Background Sanderling asserted three patents sharing a common specification against Snap in the Northern District of Illinois. Sanderling opposed Snap’s motions. was correct.

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Training AI models on Synthetic Data: No silver bullet for IP infringement risk in the context of training AI systems (Part 4 of 4)

LexBlog IP

This is the fourth and final part of series on using synthetic data to train AI models. What other key legal topics should I consider when using synthetic data to train an AI model? Depending on the use case, the risk may be more or less significant. See here for Parts 1 , 2 and 3.

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[Guest post] Dutch IP battle about the hyped “Crompouce®”- a croissant-tompouce hybrid

The IPKat

The standard principle that abbreviations of descriptive terms become inherently descriptive when used as such, and the relevant public, acknowledges them as being identical to the full descriptive meaning, does not apply here either, at least not in our opinion. Apparently, the hype emerged not on instigation of the trademark proprietor.

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The Challenge of Determining Podcast Plagiarism

Plagiarism Today

To that end, he still denies using Katz’ work in any way. But I brought up a thing I read during a convo about a topic that didn't feature his work in any way. Katz took to Twitter to call out the Chilluminati Podcast for allegedly plagiarizing from his book, Gangsters of Capitalism. pic.twitter.com/ZQzV38EQzY — Jonathan M.

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Never too late: in case you missed the IPKat last week

The IPKat

Kat Friends Hanne Kirk and Charlotte Mittet Høfler analysed a recent Danish Supreme Court decision regarding the infringement of copyright in pottery, which held that the nature and the severity of the infringement provided a basis for lowering the requirement for proof of the amount of the loss.