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Africa IP highlights 2023: Copyright

The IPKat

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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“Sentiti Libera”: from street art in Genoa to the Manifesto Dress at Sanremo Music Festival 2023

The IPKat

The background Artwork by Arianna Gallo First of all, it is necessary to set the scene: Sanremo 2023, the 73rd edition of the Festival della Musica Italiana (Italian Music Festival) , is one of the most followed and watched TV shows in Italy that takes place each February.

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Croatia’s Coin Copycat Controversy

Plagiarism Today

The country of Croatia is scheduled to begin using the Euro as its currency on January 1, 2023. Users on Twitter began to notice similarities between Pranjkovic’s artwork and a photograph taken by Scottish photographer Iain Leach. One of the more public steps is designing their first one Euro coin.

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Revisiting Bananas, Duct Tape, Walls, & Copyright–Morford v. Cattelan

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

This case involves Morford’s 2001 artwork named “Banana and Orange.” Cattelan created artwork named “Comedian” in 2019. The court displayed the respective artworks: Morford sued Cattelan for copyright infringement. Cattelan , 2023 U.S. ” Independently (?), VINDICATED!!!

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Generative Artificial Intelligence: US Copyright Office denies registration

The IPKat

On 21 February 2023, the US Copyright Office (USCO) issued a decision further to a request to register Zarya of the Dawn , a graphic novel that includes images created with the assistance of Midjourney , a generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) system. The case In September 2022, Ms.

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U.S. Copyright Office Partially Allows Registration of Work having AI-generated Images (“Zarya of the Dawn”)

LexBlog IP

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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Takeaways from the Hermès Litigation over MetaBirkins NFTs

LexBlog IP

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.)