SpicyIP

MARCH 9, 2025

PPL, claiming ownership over public performance rights via assignments from music labels, alleged infringement after its representatives discovered unlicensed use of its repertoire. The plaintiff, a proprietary firm, held a registered trademark (ARJUN) since 1993 and a copyright for its artistic work, with claimed use since 1978.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 2, 2023

A new breed of artists is using generative artificial intelligence tools like DALL·E, Midjourney, Firefly, and ChatGPT to create artistic works. Do these creations belong to the artists or the public domain? Over time, courts began to accept that cameras and even computers can be used as tools for artistic creation.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The lack of organisation and ambiguity make the protection problematic even if the work is copyrighted. According to section 13 (1)(a) of Copyright Act of 1957 copyright subsists in original literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works. Ownership of Copyright. Ownership under employment.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Effectively, the Court has permanently restrained CIPL’s use of the mark through manufacturing, selling, offering for sale or advertising the products on which it was affixed. Following this, it was observed that the creator of the artistic work in CIPL’s mark was free to derive inspiration from the general concept of a crocodile.

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Kashishipr

AUGUST 17, 2022

When it comes to promoting, marketing, and advertising, social media is one of the most effective and powerful ways. Content creators and social media influencers work sincerely to build their reputation for expertise in specific industries, products, and topics.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

NFTs are units of data stored on a blockchain that signify ownership of (supposedly) unique digital media items. In his motion, Rothschild argued that he used “MetaBirkins” as a title to an artistic work as opposed to a source-identifying trademark. Miles Parks McCollum v. Opulous et al. 2:22-cv-00587, U.S.

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 14, 2023

Since copyright is “universal”, some argue that the lex originis should be utilised to determine who owns works that have been plagiarised. Since copyright in whatever form (even first ownership) is subject to the territoriality principle, many argue that lex loci protectionis is the appropriate course of action. [10]

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 24, 2024

Turning to outputs, courts and regulators have already been asked repeatedly (and usually answered no) as to whether genAI models, especially Text-To-Image (T2I) models, can be recognised as the creators of literary or artistic works worthy of some sort of copyright protection. We hope to return to this theme in future work.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Even presently, user creation and ownership of valuable assets and currencies contribute to developing a unified metaverse, which includes VR Technology, Augmented Reality, virtual currencies, NFTs, and other similar technologies. Artists are using virtual reality and augmented reality to create previously unimagined artworks.

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 4, 2021

For about a decade, courts had realized that IIC had gone way too far, and had expanded liability in ways that didn’t protect consumers and facilitated anticompetitive claims about false advertising. The court or appeals also commented that relying on IIC might change the available damages and relief—but how exactly?

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Mr Padgham is a Bordeaux-based artist and film maker who has created visual effects videos of giant red hearts flying out of La Dfense and popcorn popping out of Warhols displayed at the MoMA. Conduct which takes unfair advantage of the advertising value of a symbol, in the form of a building, has not yet been decided by our courts.

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