IP Tech Blog

AUGUST 4, 2023

Blog editor and partner in our IP group, Joe Grasser, covers one of the year’s most intriguing IP cases, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. The Idea of copyright is actually a bundle of different rights… one of the copyright rights is the right to prepare derivate works (e.g., Goldsmith et al, Case No.

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Intepat

OCTOBER 7, 2022

As a result, intellectual property refers to creations such as innovations, industrial product designs, literary and creative works, and symbols that are later used in business. As an artist or designer, one should be aware of two forms of intellectual property (IP) rights: copyright and design rights. Design Rights.

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IP Tech Blog

JANUARY 4, 2023

In turn, this attracts interest from businesses ranging from fashion and sports brands, sport teams, designers, game developers, and other content owners. The purpose of copyrights is to protect creative works, including writings, from infringement. It has been debated whether NFTs/DC could be protected in China by design patents.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

Clarifying Copyright Fair Use in Commercialized and Licensed Visual Arts: Insights from Warhol v. Goldsmith by Jaime Chandra Clarifying Fair Use in Commercialized & Licensed Visual Arts: Insights from the Warhol v. We’re talking about Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, Inc. Let’s dive in!

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The IP Law Blog

JUNE 15, 2023

Second, Zillow selected certain photographs “of artfully-designed rooms in some of those properties” to post to its “Digs” website, which is directed toward home improvement. The Copyright Act contains a provision that “all the parts of a compilation or derivative work constitutes one work” for purposes of statutory damages.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 22, 2023

Several recent, high-profile lawsuits raise the issue of whether such training algorithms violate copyright law’s restrictions on creating derivative works without the creators’ consent. What is a Derivative Work? What is Generative AI? Stability AI Ltd.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

On May 18, 2023, the Supreme Court found that artistic changes to a pre-existing work, alone, not necessarily sufficient to make a derivative work fair use. At issue before the Supreme Court in Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc. Applying a new lens on how to view the purpose of a derivative work under U.S.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 3, 2022

That $3,750 works out to a measly $71 for each month the case has been pending. In addition, in granting Alexander’s motion for partial summary judgment, the court found that Alexander held valid copyrights in the tattoo designs at issue and that defendants copied those works. Skull arm design. Bible verse design.

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Garrigues Blog

MAY 11, 2021

In the case of architecture, holding copyrights in works enables authors to exploit their economic rights with a view to continuing their creative activity. The RAE’s definition of architecture as “the art of designing and constructing buildings”, is not alien to Peruvian copyright law. Indeed, Legislative Decree no.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 22, 2023

” Andy Warhol Foundation For Visual Arts, Inc. Still, having already designated Warhol’s “Soup Cans” a paradigmatic example of transformative use just two terms ago in Google v. . “[T]he first fair use factor. Oracle , the Court didn’t have much choice but to hold its ground. "I

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 9, 2023

Does such an output infringe on a copyrighted work of a third party, especially those works “ingested” during the training stage of the AI system? Under US law, is the output a “ derivative work ” of the “ingested” copyrighted works?

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

MARCH 9, 2022

From July 2017 to April 2018, the Art Gallery of Ontario (the “AGO”) staged an exhibition titled “ ReBlink ,” which urged visitors to “[t]ake a second look… with a modern lens:”. addition of written or pictorial elements) of a work not in the public domain and/or where the creator is still alive.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

From the output side, the relevant issues are whether the output is copyright-protected, and whether it infringes the copyright of ‘works “ingested” during the training stage of the AI system’ ( see Quintais, here ; see also here and here ). If there were to be a broader E&L, then what should be the design of such a framework?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 7, 2022

Unicolors’s business model is to create artwork, copyright it, print the artwork on fabric, and market the designed fabrics to garment manufacturers.” A Google search turns up three different pairs of designs with differing degrees of similarity. A jury agreed, finding that H&M had willfully infringed Unicolors’s fabric design.

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The IPKat

MARCH 22, 2024

After all, making and using new recordings similar or even nearly identical to existing ones, are not infringing any US copyrights, as per art. Having implemented the WPPT through the InfoSoc Directive , the EU indeed grants phonogram producers a neighboring right which is exclusively relating to each particular phonogram [art.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 19, 2022

Of the Supreme Court members who will decide Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. A comparison of Lynn Goldsmith’s photo of Prince with Andy Warhol’s art (R). Does the word “transformed” when used to describe a derivative work mean the same thing as the word “transformative” when used in the fair use inquiry?

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 4, 2023

In turn, this attracts interest from businesses ranging from fashion and sports brands, sport teams, designers, game developers, and other content owners. The purpose of copyrights is to protect creative works, including writings, from infringement. It has been debated whether NFTs/DC could be protected in China by design patents.

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Kashishipr

JULY 13, 2022

In the AR field, however, more IP disputes are likely to occur concerning trademark, copyright, public display, and performance, where articulating and defending against infringement matters is always more art than science. The quantum of the original expression essential to qualify a creative work for Copyright Protection is undoubtedly low.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The event was Organised by AI Fringe (AI for everyone) and co-convened by DACS (The Design and Artists Copyright Society). Mr Blackmore also raised the issue of copyright protection of AI created works. Questions that need to be answered are: ‘Are such works deemed derivative works?’

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 15, 2023

Second, Zillow selected certain photographs “of artfully-designed rooms in some of those properties” to post to its “Digs” website, which is directed toward home improvement. Thus, the Ninth Circuit had to determine whether, for purposes under that provision, “the photos at issue qualified as `one work.'”

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IP Tech Blog

MARCH 18, 2022

Most NFTs are protected under US Copyright Law as creative works and/or may be derivative works based on pre-existing copyright-protected works. The brief further argued that the term METABIRKINS refers both “to the context in which he makes the art available (i.e., NFTs also may embody or use trademarks.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 23, 2023

.” From ongoing debates about the human element (or requirement) of authorship to debates over what constitutes a transformative work to the gauntlet laid down in footnote 2 of Justice Kagan’s dissent in the Supreme Court’s May 18, 2023 decision in Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, Inc., ’” Id.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

This ambition, and the resulting huge body of work (over 850 studies), inspired us to think about new ways to interpret this empirical literature, and to offer a state-of-the-art overview of the evidence on how copyright works in society. Other contributions focus on specific case studies of optimising particular uses.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

is non-alienable and, therefore, is still very beneficial to authors, despite its evident shortcomings (such as the exclusion of “works for hire” and derivative works, as well as the requirement of notice from the author to effect the termination rights). By contrast, the 35-year termination right in the U.S

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 7, 2023

3:23-cv-00201) on behalf of three named artists against Midjourney, Stability AI and DeviantArt, each of which companies have developed AI-based art generators whose models were allegedly trained on billions of images scraped from the Internet without the permission of the copyright holder. Stability AI Ltd. et al , No.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 18, 2022

Most NFTs are protected under US Copyright Law as creative works and/or may be derivative works based on pre-existing copyright-protected works. ” The brief further argued that the term METABIRKINS refers both “to the context in which he makes the art available (i.e.,

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 13, 2022

As previously reported on this blog , non-fungible tokens (or “NFTs”) recently emerged as one of the hottest new items on the art market—artists, auction houses, museums, sports organizations and others have jumped at the chance to create and sell their own versions of these unique tokens. On March 2, 2022, Hermès filed an Amended Complaint.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 21, 2021

To avoid these issues, religious groups can implement copyright law to prevent all impermissible copying and distribution of the religious works and any derivative works, and therefore maintaining their doctrinal purity. ” Id. at 138-139. Bikram’s Yoga , 803 F. 3d at 1040 ].

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Art Law Journal

JUNE 30, 2022

Few people would want something that they put their heart and soul into creating, whether that’s art, music, design, or an invention, being used or sold without their permission. Copyright is the type of Intellectual Property most often associated with artistic works like fine art, movies, or books. That’s understandable.

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Art Law Journal

JUNE 30, 2022

Few people would want something that they put their heart and soul into creating, whether that’s art, music, design, or an invention, being used or sold without their permission. Copyright is the type of IP most often associated with artistic works like fine art, movies, or books. Utility and Design Patents.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In Larson, Dorland claimed copyright in a 381-word letter posted to Facebook and further asserted that, therefore, each of the three versions of Larson’s The Kindest was a derivative work in which Dorland, therefore, owned the copyright because her letter and the later Larson works were substantially similar.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The decision also confirms that any work protected by copyright – including works of applied art – must only satisfy a requirement of originality, this also being harmonized at the EU level. Its scope of application inter alia includes works of applied art.

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Velocity of Content

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

It is clear that AI is built on a foundation of immense works of authorship, many of which are protected by copyright. 7 When copyrighted works are used, AI systems typically make copies of the works to train and power AI outputs. ↩︎ Berne Convention, supra note 35, art. 1858); Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, c.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 10, 2024

Still, it seems strange that Woodward, a reporter, would argue that the interviews are somehow government works. It is strange because that would mean that the unpublished portions would also be government works available for public use. ” US Const., II, Section 3. ’” Dkt. 73 (“MTD”), [and Dkt.

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