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Copyright Ownership in State Board Textbooks: Impediments to Accessibility

SpicyIP

In this post, I look at the question of the government’s copyright ownership in State Board textbooks, and its implications on access to knowledge and education. Smartphone ownership levels among rural households with school going children have doubled to 62% in 2020 from 36% in 2018. Image from here.

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Thaler Loses AI-Authorship Fight at U.S. Copyright Office

IP Watchdog

Thaler filed an application to register the computer-generated work, “A Recent Entrance to Paradise,” on November 3, 2018.

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Supreme Court: Judicial Stock Ownership and the Requirements of Recusal

Patently-O

Back in 2018, Centripetal sued Cisco, alleging infringement the claims of eleven cybersecurity related patents. Placing stock in a trust did shift the ownership: A trust is legally owned by the trustee rather than his spouse. However, § 455(b)/(f) are not tied to ownership, but rather a “financial interest.”

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Ownership of Copyrights Patents and Trademarks are Created by Employees and Independent Contractors

IP and Legal Filings

Copyright: The copyright protection is given by Indian Law under The Copyright Act, 1957, supported through Copyright Rules, 2018. This may be for a limited period and is only limited to publishing, rendering left of the ownership to the author. Hence, the overall construction of the Copyright Act is fulfilling the righteous needs.

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

IP Intelligence

Combine that “mastermind/dominant” author doctrine with the run of cases discussing ownership of software outputs (i.e., Copyright Office (the Office) when it comes to copyright ownership of artificial intelligence (AI) output. 2018) (citing Design Data Corp. The Office has answered that question with a resounding “maybe.”

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Conundrum Involving The Ownership Of The Work Created By Ai

IP and Legal Filings

Firstly, work generated from AI with input, in this case command is given by the human or programmer and get output out of it with the help of their creative and innovative ideas hence the ownership and authorship can be ascribed to the human who has given innovative inputs to the AI. Issues There are many issues in granting ownership to AI.

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17 Copyright and/or Plagiarism Stories for Halloween

Plagiarism Today

A Story of Missed Attribution and Missed Opportunity : Finally, this September 2018 article tells the story of the musician Aurelio Voltaire and how his potential big break became something of a bust. Creating a Fake Plagiarism Story : In September 2018, I decided to try something a bit different.