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New Tools, Old Rules: Is The Music Industry Ready To Take On AI?

Copyright Lately

Chrissy uses voice conversion software to convert the SpongeBob track and ends up with something atrocious like this: AI Drake imitating Drake, imitating SpongeBob Copyright Law, What Say You? No wonder I’m getting flashbacks to 2003. That is, in fact, the very nature of sound recording copyright and ownership.”

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If “Trespass to Chattels” Isn’t Limited to “Chattels,” Anarchy Ensues–Best Carpet Values v. Google

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Citing a 2003 Ninth Circuit case, Kremen v. The Kremen case involved the alleged theft of the sex.com domain name by improperly modifying the electronic records evidencing ownership of the domain name. It didn’t. Cohen , the court says “a website can be the subject of a trespass to chattels claim.”

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WHAT, IN THE NAME OF GOD, …?: Intellectual Property Rights In Holy Names, Sacred Words, & Other Aspects of Creation

LexBlog IP

The report notes on page 11 that “In 2003, research estimates put the [U.S.] ” Aseri, Commercializing Religion Via Trademarking God, 23 J. Second , it has been argued that the court merely espoused the settled principles of trademark law that ‘common’ names and phrases cannot be monopolized.