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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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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Herbert Smith Freehills

APRIL 12, 2022

And if they feed into a developing vision, so much the better. . On graduation, he didn’t join a law firm, but took a more non-traditional route with in-house counsel roles at computer software companies. So, because I was working around doctors a lot in the health software sector, I thought I’d like to understand that more.”.

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Go-to resources for staying current on OA topics and developments: EurekaAlert! Peter Suber’s/Harvard’s Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) provides a —free-to-subscribe— daily news feed of developments in OA-land. Open-source software. from AAAS covers the OA news well and objectively. Open data repositories.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

In this series, the blog's authors offer answers to 21 topical copyright questions for the 21st century. It reviews the basic issues on the topic, then elaborates on the importance of performers’ rights for creative industries and the main debates and developments in the area. Last week’s post is dedicated to performers’ rights.

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The IPKat

APRIL 25, 2024

Since we last wrote for the IPKat on the topic , additional posts have discussed the Science, Innovation and Technology Select Committee’s inquiry into the impact of AI on the creative industries and the UK House of Lords Inquiry into Large Language Models. As a consequence, the Court did not explicitly discuss the interpretation of s 9(3).

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 13, 2022

Are you or your company expecting to spend a considerable sum anytime soon on computer software? Companies often acquire computer software without much concern — other than the price/cost of the product. You may even be required to offer your expensive new software to others for free. This can be a risky approach.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 12, 2023

It is also seeking policies that can support the development of AI audits, assessments, certifications and other mechanisms to create earned trust in AI systems that they work as claimed (similar to how financial audits create trust in financial statements). What kinds of data access is necessary to conduct audits and assessments.

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IIPRD

APRIL 8, 2024

With the development of latest technologies like the Creative Adversarial Network (“CAN”), many areas which were yet unexplored in the realm of Intellectual Property Rights have arisen. This still stands as an extremely contentious topic. these are available so that the creators can benefit from their inventions and creations. [8]

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I am excited to announce the publication of the Intellectual Property Owner (IPO) ’s white paper on “ Software and Medical Device Guidance: A Global Perspective.” ” The paper was authored by the IPO’s Software and Medical Device Subcommittee, which I had the honor and pleasure of leading in 2022.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 30, 2022

While piracy is hard to eradicate entirely, the Copyright Alliance believes that a lot of progress can be made by carefully screening developers and apps before they enter the store. This should include “enhanced vetting” of developers, “screening” apps for infringements, and an effective notice and takedown system.

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Velocity of Content

APRIL 2, 2024

When internal teams develop datasets, they rely on their own staff’s expertise and understanding of how the data was gathered, and this knowledge can be easily lost in the event of personnel changes. We regularly hear from leaders of data science teams that they are concerned about a loss of institutional knowledge.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 24, 2023

Sanning discussed this topic along with Brendan Groves from Skydio; Taylor Lochrane, the Deputy Director for Science and Technology at DOT; Lauren Haertlein from Zipline; and Margaret Nagle from Wing. What did the panel have to say about this issue?

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 17, 2022

The software also works with Chrome but is yet to appear on Google’s Play Store. At the time of writing, Sci-Hub Injector appears to be a project still under development. Named ‘Sci-Hub Injector’ and released under GNU General Public License v3.0, “Inject freedom into science publisher websites, with style.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 2, 2023

We are now awash with companies claiming to provide LLM software capable of drafting, prosecuting and challenging patents. Software for the patent industry before LLMs Various software solutions for patent search, drafting and prosecution have been available and marketed for some time.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 11, 2022

Remember, the law restricts any software that “(1) prioritize content, and (2) direct the prioritized content to the account holder,” and that seemingly includes the software used to honor content subscriptions. They are not the same thing!). The Bill Is Terrible Policy.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Without getting into a much longer discussion on the ethical considerations of using AI (do a little research yourself on that topic), there are some concerns being raised about the use of AI products, including ChatGPT, that are worth keeping an eye on. ” It is also being used to generate phishing emails.

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The IP Law Blog

JULY 15, 2021

As a result, the USPTO has requested comments from the public on 13 topics, which can be found at this link and are paraphrased and summarized below. After evaluating the public’s responses, the Senators requested that the USPTO prepare a summary of its findings by March 5, 2022. Comments must be received by the USPTO by September 7, 2021.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The rapid development of AI is introducing new opportunities and challenges to dispute resolution. Another development was the publication of the G7 voluntary code of conduct for developers of advanced AI systems. [10] 6] For example, the CMA published an initial report on AI foundation models in September 2023. [7]

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 26, 2021

.” The fact sheet includes tips such as maintaining an offline, encrypted back-up of data, develop an incident response plan, implement auditing, regular scans and software updates, block phishing attempts, and practice “good cyber hygiene.” Implementing application allowlisting.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 15, 2023

AI Generated ‘Work’ or Software Outcome? They can be explained as the software outcomes rather than expressions of intellectual creativity to present something in the digital form. AI generated works are not works as such, rather they are the outcomes of maximizing the likelihood of the prompted text or pixel in the command.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The CC Copyright Platform was established as a discussion space to strategize on copyright reform as a complementary action to developing and stewarding CC licenses. They will continue to build on the work done so far, in line with the developments in the social, technical, and legal aspects of AI and copyright.

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Velocity of Content

MAY 31, 2023

In early May, CCC hosted “ Workflow of the Future: Sustainable Business Models ,” the fifth event in a series designed to help facilitate important conversations on critical topics related to standards, including sustainability.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

It makes use of several technological developments and in particular computing devices with wireless connectivity that let the user connect to the Internet and other devices in different places. Part 2 discusses the relevant copyright exceptions and limitations that interfere with the development of AR experiences.

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The IPKat

JUNE 25, 2021

It places intellectual property issues in technology transfer into their historical and political context whilst also exploring the development of these intersecting domains for innovative research universities. Chapter 17 titled ‘Data governance and the emerging university’ by Michael Madison explores this topic.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 31, 2023

And protecting these human-developed creations is critical—ChatGPT has been hailed as a revolutionary chatbot that has driven OpenAI’s market cap to $29 billion in just a few months. Patent Protection Patentability of software has been a hot topic for the better part of 50 years.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

The week that is about to end has witnessed extremely concerning developments. Meanwhile, the IPWatchdog reported US Copyright Office's decision about AI-Authorship involving a work made by an artificial intelligence software. The IPKat Team wishes to express its solidarity to all those who are suffering right now.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 17, 2024

Contrary to classic computer programs written by developers, many of these models rely on vast artificial neural networks trained in giant amounts of data. The run file is a classic piece of software and does not pose particular difficulties. First, the weights are numerical values, not exactly an expression of software through code.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Against this backdrop, I have in a recent paper developed such a fitness analysis to the so-called “core-components” of Machine Learning (ML) systems. ML models have been called ‘learning algorithms’, ‘AI computer programs’, and ‘software 2.0’. The purposive interpretation of the Software Directive by the CJEU in SAS Institute Inc.

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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? If you’re interested in doing a deeper dive into how all of this works, I recommend following Andres Guadamuz’s blog on the topic.)

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 23, 2023

Strangely, the value of ‘likes’ and ‘views’ is comprehensively understood when the topic of conversation isn’t centered on ripping music from YouTube. It probably should given the latest developments. Both options are free; what’s the problem? “Is it legal to download music from YouTube?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

9.610/98 ), which is complemented by the software protection legislation. Focused on AI, the Brazilian Artificial Intelligence Strategy ( EBIA – English summary here ) is the first national effort to follow international trends towards developing a regulatory framework for AI. 10.534/2020. Under art.

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Velocity of Content

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

A similar (but distinct) usage comes in from software engineering: “Quality Assurance” (QA) is a critical part of the development process where the programs under study are rigorously tested to determine that they function as designed in the specs and do not make critical errors, such as failing randomly or messing up the data.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 15, 2021

As a result, the USPTO has requested comments from the public on 13 topics, which can be found at this link and are paraphrased and summarized below. .” After evaluating the public’s responses, the Senators requested that the USPTO prepare a summary of its findings by March 5, 2022.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 2, 2023

As a result, many companies are developing corporate policies on employee use of AI. Federal Government Initiatives Recently announced federal government initiatives seek to leverage collective authorities to monitor the development and use of AI and automated systems. If you have not done so yet, now is a good time to get started.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

As many of our readers know one of the most recurrent tax-related topics that come into discussion in the IP field is the so-called Patent Box (sometimes also - more properly - defined as the Innovation Box since it is not all about patents ).

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Patently-O

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Topics for Public Comment. research and development; e. product development; l. other computer-related inventions ( e.g., software, business methods, computer security, databases and data structures, computer networking, and graphical user interfaces). and foreign patent applications you have filed; the number of U.S.

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