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[Guest post] ‘Ghiblification’ and the Moral Wrongs of U.S. Copyright Law

The IPKat

Hayao Miyazaki Recent discourse on Studio Ghibli AI art generation through OpenAI tools has included speculations that Hayao Miyazaki (the mastermind behind the studio's famous films) would find the use of AI in this manner objectionable to the core of his art. Usually, artists seek to remove their name to maintain their reputation.

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Could Banksy Sue Christopher Walken Over Destroyed Artwork?

Copyright Lately

” Could the street artist claim a violation of his moral rights? Walken made international headlines last week when he painted over original Banksy artwork in the season finale of the BBC comedy-drama series “ The Outlaws ,” which is set in Banksy’s hometown of Bristol, England. The series will be available to U.S.

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When is an artist entitled to refuse attribution of an artwork? Italian Supreme Court provides (final) guidance in long-running dispute over Jeff Koons’s The Serpents

The IPKat

As IPKat readers are surely aware, his fame extends well beyond the art world, given that Koons has contributed as litigant to some of the most interesting copyright case law around the world [see, eg, IPKat coverage here ]. There, it was presented as an original Koons artwork of which three copies exist.

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Using that classic piece of art on a book cover: Grr…

The IPKat

Works of art, in the form of the reproduction of a painting, frequently adorns the cover of a reissued edition of a renowned novel. Beyond the obvious attempt to draw a connection between the artwork and the book based a shared sense of the "classical", the artwork also seeks to evoke a more specific connection with the contents of the book.

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Alalääkkölä v Palmer: New Zealand Supreme Court confirms copyright is relationship property

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Background As recounted by Lyall (2024) , Finnish artist Sirpa Alalkkl and her husband Paul Palmer, who married in 1997 and separated some 20 years later, disputed the ownership of copyright in artworks she created during the course of their relationship. It addressed these questions as follows.

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First duel between NFTs and copyright before the Spanish courts: NFTs 1 – Authors 0

Kluwer Copyright Blog

That is, in an NFT there can be an underlying copy of a work of art –typically an image, photograph, piece of music, video or certain audiovisual content– that may be subject to copyright. Therefore, the moral right of “disclosure” had already been exhausted. an exploitation that caused them no harm).

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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. Consequently, according to Law 22.04.1941 No.

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