LexBlog IP

JANUARY 12, 2023

As 2023 commences, it’s time for companies to review and take stock of their intellectual property assets. For trademarks, a good place to start is the company’s marketing and promotional materials, website, mobile app, and social media. Intellectual property is a company asset, just like inventory.

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IIPRD

JANUARY 7, 2025

This entails actively searching for their work, including visual components like logos and artwork and textual parts like image tags, in assembled datasets or massive data lakes. Content producers should keep a close eye on social media and digital platforms for the emergence of works that could be derivative of theirs.

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The IPKat

APRIL 17, 2024

Among these, the Danish case of Artpusher Gallery ApS vs. Coop Danmark A/S in BS-30388/2023-SHR stands out as what the artist known as Love Party / Artpusher might have perceived as a modern tale of David and Goliath. Furthermore, the Artpusher case involved more than the use of a trademark in a single artwork or a series of artworks.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Unfortunately, this site has discontinued all services related to the function and content hosted as of October 19, 2023. While the quality of the ‘artwork’ accompanying the goodbye message won’t keep Webtoon’s artists up at night, it strongly implies that things might not be over just yet.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

AI-generated works have won awards: The Crow , an “AI-made” film won the Jury Award at the Cannes Short Film Festival and the story of an AI artwork winning the Colorado State Fair’s annual art competition was reported in The New York Times. AI-generated art was used for magazine covers, including Cosmopolitan and The Economist.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 26, 2023

Kashtanova’s statements on social media, where she stated that she had created the comic book using Midjourney. As noted in its letter of February 21, 2023, the Office found that while Ms. ” However, the new registration explicitly excluded the images/artwork generated by artificial intelligence (Midjourney).

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 9, 2023

22-cv-384 (JSR), 2023 U.S. 2, 2023) (citation omitted).) This may include text messages, messaging apps, posts on any social media platform, and other forms of communication. ” ( Hermès Int’l v. Rothschild , No. LEXIS 17669, at *11 (S.D.N.Y. ” ( Id. ” ( Id. at *17-18.)

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 13, 2022

A trial is set to begin February 28, 2023. Rothschild offered the NFTs for sale on the OpenSea NFT marketplace featuring the tagline “NOT YOUR MOTHER’S BIRKIN,” [34] and he allegedly featured the METABIRKINS trademark, as well as Hermès’ BIRKIN and HERMÈS trademarks, prominently on his social media and website, metabirkins.com.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 14, 2023

This Africa IP Highlights 2023 is the result of collaboration between myself and several IP practitioners and researchers across Africa: Clarisse Mideva ; Rita Chindah ; and Jessie Mgonga. The photographer, Esther Umoh called this person out for copyright infringement on social media platform “X”.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 22, 2023

The court’s limited ruling also means that museums displaying the artwork don’t need to worry that they’ll be served with injunction papers any time soon. " — Robert Indiana, artist [link] — Aaron Moss (@copyrightlately) May 19, 2023 2. — Aaron Moss (@copyrightlately) May 18, 2023 4.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 7, 2023

8] Second, as to the works’ purpose, the court found that it was unclear whether Prince intended to create a parody of the original photographs, a satire of society’s use of social media, or neither, pointing out Prince’s own contradictory testimony on the question. [9] 2023) (slip op., May 11, 2023). [7]

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 21, 2025

The lawsuits brought by the owners of such works, including artworks in the case of image-generators and journalism in the NYT case, claim that this should not be allowed. Such uses, they argue, constitute copyright infringement. Plaintiff then sued Defendant in the BIC.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 6, 2025

Perlmutter (read opinion here) , the court upheld the Copyright Offices refusal to register artwork generated solely by a computer named the Creativity Machine. Miley Cyrus is facing a copyright lawsuit that claims her 2023 hit Flowers copies elements from Bruno Marss 2013 song When I Was Your Man. In Thaler v.

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