SpicyIP

OCTOBER 9, 2022

As reported, in 2020, the copyright office rejected an application which listed AI (RAGHAV) as the sole author for an artwork. However, a second application was filed where a natural person and an AI (again (RAGHAV) were named as co-authors for another artwork. This copyright office granted registration in this case.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 26, 2024

Nintendo has a reputation for taking action against content featuring its characters and artwork so removing it now is the right thing to do. A similar notice sent to GitHub in 2020 took content down using the DMCA. No games piracy in sight, only alleged infringement in characters, artwork, and audiovisual works.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The NFT art market, that is NFTs which specifically link an artwork or a digital file (a song, for example), have already gone mainstream and, of course, artists and projects owners have asked lawyers to prepare IP licenses to protect their IP. Let alone was it clear how to protect the IP rights in the artwork linked to it.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

One of Deadly Doll’s popular designs is a cartoon image of a bikini-clad pin-up girl holding a skull: Deadly Doll’s original artwork. Deadly Doll has applied versions of its artwork to various products, including tops and sweatpants: Deadly Doll’s artwork as reproduced on useful articles.

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Kashishipr

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

It was in October 2020 when SSPL came to know about NTC’s use of a similar label and trade dress for its set of soya bean edible oil products. NTC didn’t own the copyright in the ‘SOYA DROP’ artwork or label. In May 2007, the label mark ‘SOYA DROP’ was registered.

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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.

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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.

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IPilogue

MARCH 17, 2023

Regarding fake indigenous art sold as souvenirs in Australia, the report by the Productivity Commission showed international tourists spent more than $78 million on indigenous-style artwork in 2019-2020.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 5, 2023

The campaign hopes to pay a lobbyist $187,500 to “educate government officials and policymakers” on a new threat to the creative industries – AI-generated artwork. The RIAA reported revenues of $28,132,459 in 2020, less than half of the MPA’s $62,895,695. Revenues and Tax.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 13, 2021

On July 12, 2021, Justice Andrew Borrok ruled that the rightful owners of two artworks by the Viennese Expressionist Egon Schiele (the “Artworks”) are entitled to prejudgment interest following an art dealer’s refusal to turn over the Artworks in 2015. [3] .” [2]. ” [10]. ” [10]. ” [10].

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Most significantly, “the development of blockchain technology” has been accepted as a legal business activity by the Indonesian standard industrial business categorization code, which was published in 2020. 5 of 2020, dated November 16, 2020, regarding ESP in the Private Sector, as amended by MOCI Regulation No.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 6, 2024

A while ago, the IPKat reported [ here , here , and here ] on a number of cancellation actions directed at Banks’s EU trade mark (EUTM) registrations representing his artworks.

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Erik K Pelton

DECEMBER 20, 2022

One example was the November release of the Her Loss album by artists Drake and 21 Savage which included a fake Vogue magazine cover as part of the album artwork, as well as a fake version of Vogue magazine. 2020: [link]. The firm has registered more than 4,000 U.S. Past issues of Top Trademark Trends: 2021: [link]. 2019: [link].

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IPilogue

MARCH 4, 2022

Yet many more pieces were lost, and millions of artworks and monuments remain at risk from Russia’s military onslaught. 3] Federico Lenzerini, “Intentional Destruction of Cultural Heritage,” The Oxford Handbook of International Cultural Heritage Law (2020).

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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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Intepat

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

State of Tamil Nadu (2021) This case involved the unauthorized use of an artwork created by an unknown artist. Unknown (2020) In this case, a non-profit organization sought to use ancient manuscripts whose authorship was unclear. Recent Case Law on Pseudonymous and Anonymous Works S. Society for the Promotion of Cultural Heritage v.

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IPilogue

MARCH 18, 2022

The “Free the Flag” movement in Australia gained momentum by 2020. In 1967, the Governor and the Reserve Bank paid $1000 AUD to Mr. David Malangi for using his original artwork on the Australian dollar bill circulated in 1966. The copyright, therefore, vests with the Crown. Crown’s Acquisition of Copyright in Australia. Looking Ahead.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 23, 2024

Cognosphere asserts that leaked, copyright-infringing artwork and game visuals were posted to these accounts and to the best of its knowledge, no DMCA counter-notifications were filed by the operator(s) in response to its initial DMCA takedown notices. . “X Corp.,

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 3, 2022

On August 31, 2022, IP Osgoode held its first in-person event in over 2 years and the first instalment of the IP Osgoode Speaks series since 2020. Mr. Bereskin astutely noted that Plesner’s artwork would have been less popular if LV had abstained from legal action. Photo credits: [link] ).

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Interested readers can find the Africa IP Highlights 2020, here. The Court of Appeal however found that there was enough evidence before the court to prove CPL’s ownership of the copyright in the artwork (as it had commissioned and paid for the artwork).

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IIPRD

APRIL 8, 2024

This article delves into the ongoing debate around the issue of right of ownership of copyright by AI generators for their novel artwork. 16] In my opinion, our law is not yet at a stage where we are equipped to provide such protection to AI generated artwork as, the element of human authorship is still a very important element of this law.

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Copyright Lately

JULY 10, 2022

Plaintiff Joe Morford claims that the copyright in his artwork (L) has been infringed by defendant Maurizio Cattelan. He sold three versions of the artwork for a total of nearly four hundred thousand dollars before enormous selfie-seeking monkeys crowds forced him to split early. Why the Court Got It Wrong. Copyrightability.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 10, 2022

This has come about following their use in connection with the transaction of different types of digital content (including artworks), often for exorbitant amounts. Divergence instead of guidance: the Article 17 implementation discussion in 2020 – Part 1 by Paul Keller. by Zoi Krokida.

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IPilogue

JULY 30, 2021

Vaver’s influence on intellectual property law, is an original piece of artwork created by Toronto-based artist, Aries Cheung. For this last piece, Ryan was awarded the Gowling WLG Prize for Best Blog for the Winter 2020 term. The medal, befitting of Prof. Will IBM’s Patent Strategy shift under new leadership? ”.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 14, 2024

Copyright Act to provide living creators of “works of visual art” [2] with certain non-transferable “moral rights” with respect to their artwork. [3] VARA VARA was enacted in 1990 as an amendment to the U.S. ” [5] The latter has become known as the “public presentation” exception.

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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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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 1, 2023

Intellectual Property Right The rights and privileges accorded to persons over their creative works, such as innovations, works of literature, and artwork, as well as use of names, logos and pictures in trade are known as intellectual property rights (IPR). Union of India 2014 (60) PTC 277 (Bom). [iv] iv] Sameer Wadekar & Anr.

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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. Katpost on that here. March: Nigeria’s Copyright Bill, 2022 was signed into law.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

NFTs may be represented in the form of memes, artworks, or videos. Most prominently, through its 2020 report, IBM stated that several patents granted to them in 2017 also comprised of blockchain patents. The sole technology behind cryptocurrencies is called blockchain technology.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 16, 2025

In 2020, the plaintiff issued legal notice to the defendants. The two products were also similar in terms of artwork, colour scheme and packaging. It was alleged that the plaintiffs mark RAMADA, was being infringed by the defendants deceptively similar marks CLUB RAMADA, CLUB RAMADA VACATION, and others. vs Telegram Fz Llc & Ors.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

On 5 February 2020, the U.S. Copyright Office subsequently reversed its decision to register her copyright ), she has since applied to register a new artwork. This is because, arguably, the human author has no control over what an AI program generates, even if the human gives it multiple prompts. Then, on 26 October 2021, the U.S.

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IP Tech Blog

JANUARY 4, 2023

If the other opinion becomes the standard, whoever mints the artwork first will be the copyright owner and the artist could be at risk of losing their artwork in NFT form. What was sold are “NFTiffs,” which are digital passes that NFT holders can redeem for digital artwork based on CryptoPunks. The profit from this was over $12.5

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

billion in sales in 2021 alone, the non-fungible token (“NFT”) has recently undergone a dramatic rise in prominence in the cryptoverse, similar to the “crypto summer” of 2017-18 or the “DeFi summer” of 2020. With an astounding $17.7 million) knew that the NFT may or may not reference any art at all.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 30, 2021

In 2020 the District Court agreed with the defendants that the use of the song in the documentary was fair use and hence granted the motion to dismiss. The defendants in response moved under Federal Rule 12(b)(6) to dismiss the plaintiffs’ claims, contending that their use of the song in the documentary was fair use under 17 U.S.C. §

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 31, 2022

Although Hasbro passed on each of Wexler’s mash-up ideas, including the Connect 4/Nerf concept, from 2019 to 2020 Hasbro sold a line of products under the name “game mash+ups” at Target. Additionally, during the same time Hasbro sold a game called “Connect 4 Blast” which involved shooting Nerf darts at a Connect 4 grid.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 25, 2022

When the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 (“AMLA”) became law on January 1, 2021, it was described as the most influential anti-money laundering (“AML”) legislation since the USA PATRIOT Act. [2] ” [7] In 2020, Treasury defined high-value art as artwork having an estimated market value of over $100,000. [8]

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Review board 1995-2020: same basic story. Q: Why are photos rejected less than artwork? A: because logos fall w/in the category artwork and are more often rejected—photos are generally considered protectable b/c of their characteristics. Visual arts: technical drawings as pseudo-patents are rejected 20-25% of the time.

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