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Artists’ Copyright Infringement Suit Against AI Companies Can Proceed

JD Supra Law

In 2023, visual artists Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKernan, and Karla Ortiz filed a class action lawsuit against several Artificial Intelligence (AI) companies, alleging that the companies’ various AI models violated copyright law by using the artistswork in their training data sets.

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Generative AI and Copyright – Some Recent Denials and Unanswered Questions

Intellectual Property Law Blog

The growth of artificial intelligence (“AI”) and generative AI is moving copyright law into unprecedented territory. While US copyright law continues to develop around AI, one boundary has been set: the bedrock requirement of copyright is human authorship. This bedrock principle was reinforced in two recent copyright decisions.

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Trademark and Copyright Cases to Watch in 2023

The IP Law Blog

It’s always good to start off the year with an overview of trademark and copyright cases to watch. In this case, the Supreme Court will decide whether the Andy Warhol Foundation made fair use of a photo of the late artist Prince. We’ll start with Andy Warhol Foundation v. Next, we have Abitron Austria GmbH v. Hetronic International.

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Can We Reexamine the Role of Blockchain in Copyright Now?

Plagiarism Today

However, those familiar with copyright law, immediately began to point out flaws in the plan. Spice DAO has announced that it is implementing a three-stage “redemption phase” that will see it attempt to pay back its members as much as possible and, likely, attempt to sell the book in the fourth quarter of 2023. Copyright Office.

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UK Court of Appeal rules on copyright in GUIs

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Image by Kalpesh Ajugia from Pixabay00 THJ Systems Limited & Anor v Daniel Sheridan & Anor [2023] EWCA Civ 1354 concerned many issues but the one of most interesting was the correct legal test to consider whether a copyright work is original. in which copyright subsists; b. in which copyright subsists; b.

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Copyright and Generative AI: What Can We Learn from Model Terms and Conditions?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The relationship between copyright and generative AI (genAI) has turned out to be one of the most controversial issues the law has to resolve in this area. Is it a proper copyright ownership or an assigned license? If output works infringe copyright, who is responsible (e.g. user, service)?

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Trademark and Copyright Cases to Watch in 2023

LexBlog IP

It’s always good to start off the year with an overview of trademark and copyright cases to watch. In this case, the Supreme Court will decide whether the Andy Warhol Foundation made fair use of a photo of the late artist Prince. We’ll start with Andy Warhol Foundation v. Next, we have Abitron Austria GmbH v. There, U.S.-based