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First duel between NFTs and copyright before the Spanish courts: NFTs 1 – Authors 0

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Technically, from a copyright perspective, the NFTs were derivative works of the Paintings (underlying works), since the former included major copyrightable elements of the (previously created) latter.

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The Interplay of Personality Rights and Freedom of Expression- the Jackie Shroff’s Case’

IP and Legal Filings

Ramkumar Jewellers , wherein it was held that an individual should be able to control the circumstances around the use of their identification. [8] This usually applies in cases of news, parody, commentary, non-commercial use etc. It usually entails review, commentary, satire, comedy, criticism over the original work.

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INTERNET AND COPYRIGHT

IIPRD

. • Definition Of use In It Age, the authors hold exclusive rights in their works for a particular term subject to the right to use work for fair use. After the term of protection expires, the copyrighted work is out there in the public domain and the rights of the author terminate.

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AI Generated Art and its conflict with IPR

IIPRD

Accusations of copyright infringement have come up in recent times by creators, however the way generators like stable diffusion function, they transform these images to an extent where they appear to be a new creation, such nature and the application of the fair use doctrine appears to be an alternate legal argument for these apps.

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Generative AI: Remunerating the human author & the limits of a narrow TDM Exception

Kluwer Copyright Blog

From the output side, the relevant issues are whether the output is copyright-protected, and whether it infringes the copyright of ‘works “ingested” during the training stage of the AI system’ ( see Quintais, here ; see also here and here ). To facilitate the process of TDM, data is the key.

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Prof. Avichal Bhatnagar v. The CEO, Pralek Prakashan Pvt. Ltd : Taking a Look at The Conundrum Surrounding Copyright Protection vis-a-vis Accessibility for PwDs

SpicyIP

Fair Dealing under Copyright Law The Copyright Act was amended in 2012 to include an exception to the copyright of authors with respect to accessibility through section 52 (1)(zb). The Treaty represented a significant step towards making books available to everyone in accessible formats such as Braille, audio or large print.

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IT’S THE COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT FOR ME: WHY CLAIMS AGAINST MEME CONTENT SHOULD NOT MATTER

JIPL Online

On one hand, those who view intellectual property rights as a limited monopoly would suggest that even derivative use of the content in a meme is infringement on the rights holder’s interest. Keller, Recognizing the Derivative Works Right as a Moral Right: A Case Comparison and Proposal , 63 Case W. 511, 523 (2012).