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Canada’s First AI-Authored Copyright Registration Paints a Picture of Uncertainty

IPilogue

In September 2021, the IPilogue reported that India’s copyright office recognized the RAGHAV Painting App (“RAGHAV”), an artificial intelligence (“AI”) tool, as an author of the copyright-protected artistic work, Suryast. Sabrina Macklai is an IPilogue Senior Editor and a 2L JD Candidate at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law.

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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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Smells Like Copyright Infringement

IPilogue

Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School, enrolled in Professor David Vaver’s 2021-2022 Intellectual Property Law & Technology Intensive Program. publications of the translated work, which lacked both registration and copyright notice in Scott-Giles’ name. On October 21, 2021, U.S. Sarah Raja is a 3L J.D. Background.

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Foreign Works, US Rights: The 7th Circle of Copyright Hell?

Copyright Lately

The fact pattern presented in the plaintiff’s complaint is pretty devilish, made possible by the draconian notice and registration requirements imposed by the 1909 Copyright Act. The 1949 English-language publication of Dante’s “Inferno” was first published in the U.K. copyright law. Nirvana LLC.

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NFTs and Copyright

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

One of the biggest stories of 2021 in the ever evolving world of distributed ledgers and crypto currencies has been the rise of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). Although in principle, a NFT of a trademark or any work in public domain can be created. Introduction.

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Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) and Copyright

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

One of the biggest stories of 2021 in the ever evolving world of distributed ledgers and crypto currencies has been the rise of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). Although in principle, a NFT of a trademark or any work in public domain can be created. Introduction.