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Generative AI and creativity: A quick analysis of US and Canadian copyright registrations for artistic works

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Image generated with Midjourney In the middle of 2022, three significant AI text-to-image generators were made available to the public: Dall-E 2 (April 2022), Midjourney (July 2022), and Stability Diffusion (August 2022). For simplicity, I will label this ‘commercial significant artistic creativity’.

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WaterRower: Has the UK’s approach to ‘artistic works’ in copyright changed?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Unfortunately, the recent decision in WaterRower v Liking [2022] EWHC 2084 (IPEC) was not that case, despite many reporting in the aftermath of the decision that UK copyright has been extended to protect a rowing machine as a ‘work of artistic craftsmanship’. . Works of Artistic Craftsmanship. The WaterRower.

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Birkenstock’s sandals are not sufficiently artistic to enjoy copyright protection

The IPKat

R1002/2023-3 and R2499/2022-3 ) or, for older models, expired. 4,(2) German Copyright Act , artistic works, including works of architecture and applied art, are protected by copyright, provided they are the authors own intellectual creation. Registered Community Designs were declared invalid because of prior art (e.g.

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Can We Reexamine the Role of Blockchain in Copyright Now?

Plagiarism Today

Support derivative projects from the community pic.twitter.com/g4QnF6YZBp — Spice DAO (@the_spice_club) January 15, 2022. For almost as long as the blockchain has existed, supporters and advocates of it have claimed it would revolutionize the way we consume art, handle copyright disputes and earn revenue from artistic works.

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Canada Extends Copyright Term to Life of Author Plus 70 Years, Leaving Many Concerned

IPilogue

On June 23 rd , 2022, the Parliament of Canada passed legislation to extend the term of copyright protection in literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works from life of author plus 50 years to 70 years. Sally Yoon is an IPilogue Writer, IP Innovation Clinic Fellow, and a 3L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School.

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First preliminary injunction issued by a court in Turkey regarding NFTs

The IPKat

Thus, on June 21, 2022, the Istanbul Third Civil Intellectual Property Court (“IP Court”) issued a preliminary injunction regarding NFTs. The subject of the dispute pertained to exploitation of the portrait of the late Cem Karaca , who was an artist, songwriter and composer with a legendary reputation in the world of Anatolian rock music.

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WIPIP 2022, Session 6 (TM)

43(B)log

Summary of current treatment: Although courts have often referred to “expressive” or “artisticworks as shorthand for the scope of Rogers, they have applied it to speech that quali?es The key here is that when I say fraud, I do not mean fraudulent intent, but materially deceptive effect.