Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

A new crop of copyrighted works (including rights in a certain famous British detective) will enter the public domain in the United States on January 1, 2023. public domain on January 1, 2023. There’s no indication that Hulu’s decision was influenced by the copyright status of The Hardy Boys ’ titular characters.

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JD Supra Law

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The US Copyright Office (CO) Review Board rejected a request to register artwork partially generated by artificial intelligence (AI) because the work contains more than a de minimis amount of content generated by AI and the applicant was unwilling to disclaim the AI-generated material. 5, 2023) (S. 5, 2023) (S. of Copyrights; J.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

by Dennis Cxrouch In re Lizzo LLC (TTAB 2023) In a new precedential opinion, the PTAB has sided with the musical artist Lizzo — agreeing to register her mark “100% THAT B H” for use on apparel. Unlike patents and copyrights, trademark law is not designed to reward the creative endeavor of invention or authorship.

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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. Today, we begin with developments in the copyright field. Interested readers can find the Africa IP Highlights 2022, here.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Lawsuits filed in the United States targeting pirate sites usually focus on breaches of copyright law, typically direct and secondary infringement, or violations of the DMCA, depending on individual circumstances. The company’s complaint filed last year targeted the unknown domain registrant of kokoatv.net, kokoa.tv, and vidground.com.

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JD Supra Law

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

On September 5, 2023, the U.S. Copyright Office Review Board affirmed the Copyright Office’s refusal to register a digital artwork created with the Midjourney text-to-image GenAI tool.

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The IP Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Despite receiving this accolade and Allen’s arguments that he contributed significant creative elements to the AI-generated Work, his attempts to copyright the work have been unsuccessful. Allen originally filed for copyright registration on September 21, 2022, but did not disclose that he had used an AI system to create the work.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

That included those whose names appeared in public WHOIS databases as registrants or owners of domains. In an August 2023 joint submission to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Hollywood, the recording industry, TV companies, the gaming industry and publishers left little doubt that patience had run out.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

This post looks back at the key developments in AI and copyright in 2022, covering generative AI, text and data mining exceptions, the pastiche exception, deep fakes, voice cloning and infringement and enforcement of copyright using AI. Very few jurisdictions expressly provide for copyright in computer-generated works.

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IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Copyright Office last year, has filed a request for declaratory judgment with the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado asking the court to find that his work is eligible for copyright registration. Copyright Office published a final decision denying registration of Allen’s work in September 2023.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 21, 2023

YTS remains at the top of the list in 2023, despite the fact that the site and its users were subjected to various lawsuits in recent years. Top 10 Torrent Sites of 2023 YTS 1337x NYAA RARBG The Pirate Bay FitGirl Repacks Skidrow & Reloaded IGGGAMES EZTV TorrentGalaxy 1. 1337x In 2023, 1337x retains its spot in the top three.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 3, 2024

The threshold issue of human authorship as a prerequisite for obtaining copyright registration at the US Copyright Office is currently being litigated in federal court in the District of Columbia.

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IP Law 360

JANUARY 2, 2023

Copyright and trademark attorneys this year will be keeping an eye on intellectual property agencies' joint study on non-fungible tokens, developments involving artificial intelligence, as well as a Trademark Modernization Act provision that could speed up the trademark registration process.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

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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Intellectual Property Law Blog

MAY 2, 2023

On April 21, 2023, the Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro N. Additionally, on January 23, 2023, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (“NIST”) released the first version of its “ Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework ” (“AI RMF 1.0”). Copyright Office and the U.S. Both the U.S.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

In recent times, the Indian Intellectual Property Office has taken a mission for speedy disposal of all the intellectual property applications and completion of registration procedures. With a view to obtain the patent registration, we completed all the statutory requirements as well as procedures on time.

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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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IP Tech Blog

JUNE 13, 2023

Reasoning that the form of a copyright registration does not really matter, the Ninth Circuit recently affirmed a district court’s ruling that real estate photography provider VHT was entitled to statutory damages for 2,700 photos infringed by Zillow even though VHT had registered all of the works at issue as part of a single database.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The design was granted registration by the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks, Kolkata. The design was filed on 10/03/2022 and was subsequently accepted and published in the Journal of the Patent Office numbered 21/2023 on May 26th, 2023. The design number is 360313-00.

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Velocity of Content

APRIL 26, 2023

Copyright Office data provide a glimpse into the historical rates of registration, which is itself a window into how often women creators seek intellectual property law protections. A later study found that the numbers of women authors in registration records continued to increase, showing that women represented 38.5%

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SpicyIP

MARCH 27, 2023

Image from here On March 14, 2023, in Sirona Hygiene Private Limited Vs Amazon Seller Services Private Ltd , the Delhi High Court provided three interesting points on the issue of design infringement and piracy, in the context of an equally interesting fact scenario! Here too, I think the court has enlarged the “ground” to play with facts.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

On September 5, 2023, as explained here , the US Copyright Office (USCO) issued an interesting decision in a copyright registration matter that involved AI-generated work. However, since the work had won a national award, the copyright office was aware that it was AI-generated. Image from here. 16,190, 16,192 (Mar.

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The IP Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

21, 2023) (Hector Gonzalez), the District Court for the Eastern District of New York granted the plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment regarding the validity of its copyright. Under the Copyright Act of 1976, a copyright registration creates a rebuttable presumption that the copyright is valid.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 10, 2023

On February 21, 2023, the Copyright Office eclipsed its prior decisions in the area of AI authorship when it partially cancelled Kristina Kashtanova’s registration for a comic book titled Zarya of the Dawn. By: Pillsbury - Internet & Social Media Law Blog

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The deadline to respond is 18 October 2023. The USCO underlined again the importance of the “ human authorship ” requirement and stated that applicants must bear the duty to disclose the inclusion of AI-generated content in a work submitted for registration and to provide a brief explanation of the human author’s contribution to the work.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Yesterday, it was all about key developments in the copyright field in the Africa IP Highlights 2023 – the result of collaboration between myself and several IP practitioners and researchers across Africa: Clarisse Mideva ; Rita Chindah ; and Jessie Mgonga. Should it not be the chant that may be copyright-protected as a musical work?]

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Welcome to the first trimester of the 2023 round up of EU copyright law! In this edition, we report on an AG Opinion that came out late in 2022 and update you on what has happened in the first trimester of 2023 in EU copyright law.

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The TTABlog

JANUARY 5, 2024

The TTABlogger has once again chosen the ten (10) TTAB (Tee-Tee-Ā-Bee) decisions that he considers to be the most important and/or interesting from the previous calendar year (2023). In re Seminole Tribe of Florida , 2023 U.S.P.Q.2d 2d 631 (TTAB 2023) [precedential] (Opinion by Judge Melanye K. 2023 U.S.P.Q.2d

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IP Tech Blog

JANUARY 22, 2024

Copyright Office’s AI Initiative launched in early 2023. Among other things, the Initiative’s portal compiles registration decisions for AI-generated materials. Particularly instructive is a December 11, 2023 decision by the Copyright Review Board affirming the denial of registration to an AI-generated artwork.

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The TTABlog

JANUARY 3, 2024

The Board issued 34 precedential opinions in calendar 2023, a total slightly lower than in recent years. 31: De Minimis Sales of Amplifiers Over Six-Year Period Leads to Cancellation of "CS" Registration for Abandonment Failure-to-Function: Precedential No. Welch 2023. link here ). Good luck with that.]

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 25, 2023

After he was released from jail, he got copyright registrations for the photos and sued (pro se) the media entities for copyright infringement, 1202 violations, and more. We know that he doesn’t have any copyright in the photos just because he appears in them (that would be an Innocence of Muslims redux ).

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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Apart from revolutionizing the creative markets, the ability to obtain new artworks with an increasing marginalization of human contribution has inevitably tested the fitness of copyright legislations all over the world to deal with the so-called “artificial intelligence” (‘AI’). 11 and 13 EUCFR , 19 UDHR , 27.1 UDHR, and 15.1

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 1, 2024

We are pleased to bring to you this sponsored post by IP Press on the extension of the registration deadlines for their Comprehensive Course on Patents, in collaboration with S. The deadline for registration has now been extended to October 4. Majumdar & Co. But this time, we have with us our ‘exclusive knowledge partner’, S.

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The IPKat

APRIL 10, 2023

On 16 March 2023, the US Copyright Office (USCO) published the “ Copyright registration guide: works containing material generated by artificial intelligence ”. In such cases, “ a work containing AI-generated material will also contain sufficient human authorship to support a copyright claim.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The disputed image On November 27, 2023, the Beijing Internet Court (BIC) ruled in an infringement lawsuit ( Li v. The disputed AI-created image constitutes a “work” pursuant to the Copyright Law of the People’s Republic of China. The court therefore ruled that Defendant infringed upon Plaintiff’s copyright.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

SMS has copyright registrations in photos of its pump dispensers. The court says that SMS’s photos clear the very low copyrightability threshold. I understand that copyright owners deserve protection for their works. FragranceX The post Copyright Lawsuits Over Product Shots Are Still Stupid–SMS v.

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