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The Battle Lines Over AI Art

Plagiarism Today

Last month, artist Jason Allen won the Colorado State Fair’s art competition with a piece entitled Théâtre D’opéra Spatial. TL;DR — Someone entered an art competition with an AI-generated piece and won the first prize. Both online and off, AI art is making its presence felt, and battle lines are being drawn around it.

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Parsing the Plagiarism of the Bad Art Friend

Plagiarism Today

On Tuesday, journalist Robert Kolker published an article in the New York Times Magazine entitled Who is the Bad Art Friend? Almost immediately, the “Bad Art Friend” meme was born as people took to Facebook and Twitter to discuss the various ethical questions raised. That is, in a word, unacceptable.

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O Prior Art, Prior Art, Wherefore Art Though Prior Art? 

Patently-O

In a new opinion the court asked and answerd an interesting question: What if most on-point prior art was accidentally created due to a typographical error? A key to the analysis was a finding that the error would have been apparent to someone of skill in the art. You can compare the prior art linear objective lens results (Fig.

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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. What preoccupied Benjamin was how to understand the reproduction of works of art, especially in his seminal 1935 essay entitled, in English translation, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”.

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Safeguarding Access to Culture in the Digital Era in European Copyright law

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Traditionally, the purchase of the tangible copy of a work afforded the buyer or every lawful acquirer of the tangible copy the possibility to enjoy the work as long as the physical object incorporating the work exists. A copyright regime for out-of-commerce works was established by Arts. 811 of the CDSM Directive.

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Federal Circuit Clarifies Standards to Establish Nexus Between Objective Evidence and Non-Obviousness, and to Establish Copying in Medtronic et al. v. Teleflex Innovations

Intellectual Property Law Blog

In this case, the Federal Circuit determined the sufficiency of evidence to rebut a nexus between objective evidence and non-obviousness; and to establish the objective indicia of copying. Medtronic failed to make a showing that objective evidence resulted from features that were known as a combination in the prior art. Patent Nos.

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The Bizarre Career of Damien Hirst

Plagiarism Today

Though he clarified that they were not “direct copies”, he claimed there were similarities in style, color choices and techniques used that were overwhelming to him. Despite this, he has had significant success in the art world, building a career that spans four decades and regularly sells paintings for millions of dollars.