Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In his application, he identified the author as the Creativity Machine, and explained the work had been “ autonomously created by a computer algorithm running on a machine ”, but Thaler sought to claim the copyright of the “ computer-generated work ” himself “ as a work-for-hire to the owner of the Creativity Machine. ” 102(a) ; U.S.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 1, 2023

Within just over a month, a raft of barely-underground Discord servers like AI Hub have popped up to provide users with access to software—and step-by-step instructions—for creating new songs using hundreds of community-made AI models designed to mimic specific artists’ voices. year over year to $2.71

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The IPKat

APRIL 25, 2024

Here’s what they write: Generative AI, originality, and the potential role of contract in protecting unoriginal works by Adrian Aronsson-Storrier and Oliver Fairhurst Artificial Kat Over the past two years the IPKat has hosted debate on the question of whether the outputs of generative AI tools are protected under copyright law.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 22, 2024

Introduction The Intellectual property laws are designed in such a way that not only reward the creator of his intellectual creation thereby incentivising other creators for further innovation, while balancing the rights of the creator with the right of the society to access information or knowledge. Zafar Mahfooz Nomani, 2023).

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following guest contribution by Katfriend Seun Lari-Williams , PhD researcher in the fields of copyright and dispute system design at the University of Antwerp, regarding Nigeria's Copyright Act 2022 (which came into effect in 2023) and its constitutional reference to copyright as movable property.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 23, 2023

We have included all VPN providers we contacted that don’t keep extensive logs or block lawful torrent traffic on all of their servers. Note: The responses below were received in 2023. Considering the design of our network and the substantial volume of traffic it accommodates, any modifications to record user activity are unfeasible.

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Intepat

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Pandit He emphasized India’s excellent IP journey, highlighting a 36% increase in IP filings, as well as a significant increase in patents, design registrations, and trademarks. He expressed concerns about copyright protection for such works, citing legal cases like Thomson Reuters vs. Ross Intelligence Inc.,

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 9, 2023

TLDR Generative AI is one of the hot topics in copyright law today. In the EU, a crucial legal issue is whether using in-copyright works to train generative AI models is copyright infringement or falls under existing text and data mining (TDM) exceptions in the Copyright in Digital Single Market (CDSM) Directive.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

As 2023 comes to an end, in line with our annual tradition, we take stock of the top IP developments that occurred this year. We’ve tried to represent a diversity of subject matter also in this list, so it’s a mixed bag of cases dealing with patents, trademarks, copyright law etc. A special thanks to Mr. G. Nataraj, Ms.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

To do so, it first discusses how AI image generation tools are trained and how copyright protected images are involved in that process. There has been limited case law citing the section 9(3) and there remains some ambiguity and academic debate on the ownership of computer-generated works under English law.

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IIPRD

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Although cloud offerings are often global and multi-jurisdictional, the IP laws governing services generally remain territorial and national. Copyright laws, for instance, vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. What constitutes copyright infringement in one country may not be in another. Thus, in Tiffany(NJ) Inc.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 17, 2023

According to the complaint, these separate entities are just one big data-sharing family, leveraging their combined resources in non-standard ways such as Microsoft sharing hardware and cloud infrastructure resources in exchange for an ownership interest in OpenAI. 2023 WL 3449131 at *1 (N.D. May 11, 2023). Complaint at 31.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 29, 2023

Eight months after filing, the first two Copyright Claims Board (CCB) Final Determinations have been handed down. Mitrakos, 22-CCB-0035 , February 15, 2023, and Oppenheimer v. Prutton, 22-CCB-0045 , February 28, 2023. The respondent did not respond then, and the CCB sent a notice on January 11, 2023.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Hulm asserted ownership of copyright on the app on the basis of a copyright registration of a literary concept note detailing the working of its app, arguing that the app is an adaptation of the literary concept note. However, the current case discusses the protection of GUIs under the Copyright Act.

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The IPKat

MAY 29, 2023

This Kat is pleased to review the “ Overlapping Intellectual Property rights ”, edited by Neil Wilkof [full disclosure: a member of the IPKat team], Shamnad Basheer, and Irene Calboli (OUP, 2023, 864 pp.). Chapter 2, authored by David Musker, considers the overlaps between patents and designs.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

Ginsburg’s lecture took place on 3 May 2023. Manges Lecture at Columbia Law School titled “The Author as Risk-Sharer”. 2:22-cv-800-BJR, 2023 WL 1068513, at *5 n.9 27, 2023): “ We may revise these terms from time to time by posting a revised version. Jane Ginsburg’s lecture – “Author as Revenue Sharer” Prof.

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IIPRD

JUNE 8, 2024

Abstract In the dynamic realm of the fashion industry, the saying ‘following in someone’s footsteps’ takes on a new dimension, where the replication of designs is not a mere stride but a strategic dance. At this stage, it is pertinent to mention the difference between a knockoff [1] and a counterfeit [2].

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Based solely on the complaint that was filed, there are six major issues raised by the case: First, were the recorded interviews a copyright-eligible “work of authorship”? Second, if so, who is the initial owner of the copyright(s)? Third, is Trump’s claim of ownership barred by 17 U.S.C. Simon & Schuster, Inc.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 10, 2024

That then plays off the rest of the title’s allusions to separating “subjects” from the “predicates” of copyright ownership, themselves words connoting the foundational elements of both “ any complete sentence ” and at times a court’s jurisdiction over infringement matters.

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