The IP Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Allen won first place at the Colorado State Fair (the “Competition”) for the two-dimensional artwork entitled Théâtre D’opéra Spatial (the “Work”), which he produced with the aid of Artificial Intelligence (“AI”). Allen did not agree to the request and continued to request copyright registration of the entire work. Last year, Jason M.

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CopyrightsWorld

APRIL 29, 2022

The US Copyright Office has determined that some AI artworks cannot be copyrighted in the United States. Last Monday, the Copyright Office issued a fresh ruling rejecting a request to copyright an AI-generated artwork. “Visions of a Dying Brain” created by AI. says the author.

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CopyrightsWorld

APRIL 29, 2022

The US Copyright Office has determined that some AI artworks cannot be copyrighted in the United States. Last Monday, the Copyright Office issued a fresh ruling rejecting a request to copyright an AI-generated artwork. “Visions of a Dying Brain” created by AI. says the author.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

AI-generated works have won awards: The Crow , an “AI-made” film won the Jury Award at the Cannes Short Film Festival and the story of an AI artwork winning the Colorado State Fair’s annual art competition was reported in The New York Times. Registration was refused in August 2019, in line with previous US case law and guidance.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 10, 2022

Weight Lifting Simulator 3 was uploaded in September 2018 and has been visited more than a billion times. Muscle Legends was uploaded in September 2018 and it too has been visited more than a billion times.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 13, 2025

The plaintiff had acquired numerous registrations in India for the MARRIOTT and MARRIOTT formative marks. In August, 2018, petitioner was drawn to the trade mark registration in the name of the respondent no.1. Image from here Marriott Worldwide Corporation vs Hotel Marriot Prime & Anr. Goenka, founder of the RPG Group.

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IP Tech Blog

JANUARY 22, 2024

Among other things, the Initiative’s portal compiles registration decisions for AI-generated materials. Particularly instructive is a December 11, 2023 decision by the Copyright Review Board affirming the denial of registration to an AI-generated artwork. The Office further relies on the 9 th Circuit’s 2018 decision in Naruto v.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Registration was sought as a work-for-hire to the owner of the Creativity Machine. The application stated that the Work had been autonomously created by a computer algorithm running on a machine. In 2019, the Copyright Office rejected the application, holding that human authorship is necessary to support a copyright claim.

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Intepat

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

State of Tamil Nadu (2021) This case involved the unauthorized use of an artwork created by an unknown artist. Uday Prakash (2018) In this landmark case, author Uday Prakash sought to enforce his copyright over works published under a pseudonym. Recent Case Law on Pseudonymous and Anonymous Works S. Ajay Kumar Goswami v.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 16, 2025

Case Summaries Vst Industries Limited vs Asd Tobacco Private Limited & Anr on 6 March, 2025 (Delhi High Court) The petitioner, filed the petition to remove the respondents registration for the mark CHUMS from the Trade Mark Register. The two products were also similar in terms of artwork, colour scheme and packaging.

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IIPRD

MARCH 5, 2025

This position was reiterated through several decisions, the most significant ruling for an export artwork was by the U.S. AI-generated artworks, such as the ones generated by DALLE, bring data from big databases of existing pictures, and it raises the question of whether these works meet the originality requirement. Copyright Office.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Then, in 2018, the degree of a photographer’s control over the subject matter arose again with the so-called “monkey selfie” case ( Naruto v. 2018) ), questioning whether a non-human could be the author of a copyrighted work. Copyright registration in the U.S. Years later, in 2005, the U.S. Slater, No. 16-15469 (9th Cir.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 22, 2024

Among other things, the Initiative’s portal compiles registration decisions for AI-generated materials. Particularly instructive is a December 11, 2023 decision by the Copyright Review Board affirming the denial of registration to an AI-generated artwork. Copyright Office’s AI Initiative launched in early 2023.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 15, 2022

On February 14, 2022, the Review Board of the United States Copyright Office (the “Board”) refused copyright registration (for the second time) of a two-dimensional artwork entitled “A Recent Entrance to Paradise.” 2018) and Kelley v. See respectively Urantia Found v. Kristen Maaherra , 114 F.3d

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 11, 2022

It had a similar color scheme, page layout and website architecture, font type, and artwork and photographs to Boston Carriage’s. An ACPA claim also survived, as did some state law claims (not state TM claims requiring state registration based on conduct before that registration occurred, which was in 2018).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 30, 2022

Remember the Fifth Circuit case from 2018 holding that a real restaurant’s name could infringe trademark rights in the name of a fictional restaurant from the TV show SpongeBob SquarePants, the Krusty Krab? by guest blogger Prof. Alexandra Jane Roberts. Defendants, meanwhile, operate themed pop-up restaurants and bars in Houston, Texas.

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IP Whiteboard

AUGUST 30, 2020

In what we understand to be an industry-first, the Copyright Agency (an Australian not-for-profit collecting society that also licences copyright protected literary and artistic works) has licenced an Indigenous artwork for a tattoo. Left: Chris Black’s Jarrangini (buffalo), 2018 © Chris Black/Copyright Agency, 2020.

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Kashishipr

JUNE 16, 2021

The 2018 Netwrix IT Risks Report found that small and medium businesses are even more vulnerable to IP theft and cyber espionage than enterprises; however, their losses go unnoticed. Copyright and trade secrets like software, secret formula/recipes, music, etc.,

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Patently-O

APRIL 18, 2024

Copyright Office refused registration on the basis that the work lacked the required human authorship. Using this system, he autonomously generated a 2-D artwork titled “A Recent Entrance to Paradise.” The Office also cites its own longstanding practices of requiring human authorship for registration.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The Regulations also protect the rights of authors of an original applied or fine artwork to a share in the proceeds of sale of that work as long as copyright subsists. A presentation of the report was made by Hon.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Allen won first place at the Colorado State Fair (the “Competition”) for the two-dimensional artwork entitled Théâtre D’opéra Spatial (the “Work”), which he produced with the aid of Artificial Intelligence (“AI”). Last year, Jason M.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The court then states plainly: “The [Copyright] Register did not err in denying the copyright registration application presented by plaintiff. 2018)) and “celestial beings” ( Urantia Found. Perlmutter , 1:22-cv-01564, 6 (D.D.C. United States copyright law protects only works of human creation” Id. photographs).

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Although cryptocurrency has been present and around in India for the last ten years, the first debate about its legality began in June 2018, when the banking company of India (RBI) issued a circular advising bankscircular advising banks to notnot to deal in cryptocurrencies. General Law.

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Patently-O

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

In 2018, Dr. Stephen Thaler, creator of the ‘Creativity Machine’ AI system, sought copyright registration for an AI-generated image, listing the Creativity Machine as author. After two failed requests for reconsideration, Thaler sued to compel registration. by Tim Knight and Dennis Crouch.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) refused registration of “Trump Too Small” under Section 2(c) of the Lanham Act ( 15 USC 1052(c) ) because the phrase includes a living individual’s name without his written consent. Tam (2017) and Iancu v. The text of Section 2(c) is viewpoint-neutral.

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