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The Other ‘Maybe’ Authors: Copyright Ownership for AI Trainers

IP Intelligence

the Office’s recent registrability decision regarding the graphic novel created by Kris Kashtanova creates nearly insurmountable, unnecessary hurdles to all kinds of AI authorship. Combine that “mastermind/dominant” author doctrine with the run of cases discussing ownership of software outputs (i.e.,

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The Other ‘Maybe’ Authors: Copyright Ownership for AI Trainers

LexBlog IP

” the Office’s recent registrability decision regarding the graphic novel created by Kris Kashtanova creates nearly insurmountable, unnecessary hurdles to all kinds of AI authorship. Combine that “mastermind/dominant” author doctrine with the run of cases discussing ownership of software outputs (i.e.,

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Can AI-generated works be protected by copyright? No, according to US Copyright Office.

CopyrightsWorld

On November 3rd, 2018, Thaler filed a copyright application for A Recent Entrance to Paradise, designating himself as the claimant and the work’s author as “Creativity Machine,” saying that the copyright should be transferred from the AI to him due to his “ownership of the machine.”

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Is it possible to protect AI-generated works with copyright? According to the US Copyright Office, no.

CopyrightsWorld

On November 3rd, 2018, Thaler filed a copyright application for A Recent Entrance to Paradise, designating himself as the claimant and the work’s author as “Creativity Machine,” saying that the copyright should be transferred from the AI to him due to his “ownership of the machine.”

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2023 Quick Links: IP, Keyword Ads

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

His defense is that the work he used was free for all; after his victory, that work remains in the public domain for others to build upon. For ACPA purposes, “the alleged infringement regards a post-domain path, not a domain name within the meaning of Section 1127. Serc-CA Discos, Inc. 2023 WL 8480096 (S.D.

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A 512(f) Plaintiff Wins at Trial! ??–Alper Automotive v. Day to Day Imports

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

This is the initial copying design (without of the background graphics in the precedent work): The copyright registrant alleged this copying design constituted copyright infringement. ” Nevertheless, the successor licensee sent DMCA takedown notices to Amazon targeting the registrant’s stripped-down sticker. .”

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Dastar prevents misrepresentation of source of IP from being material

43(B)log

In 2017, WI granted WPI an automatically renewable, exclusive license to use and exploit the content of all of WI’s materials, including the Modigliani material. But WPI’s allegations still went to contested ownership of the information contained in the Modigliani Material, rather than the Modigliani Material as a physical product.