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Artists Attack AI: Why The New Lawsuit Goes Too Far

Copyright Lately

A group of artists has filed a first-of-its-kind copyright infringement lawsuit against the developers of popular AI art tools, but did they paint themselves into a corner? As I noted in my prior article on AI art , AI tools aren’t copying images so much to access their creative expression as to identify patterns in the images and captions.

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How to Avoid Pitfalls on the Way to Decentralized Disney

Copyright Lately

Want to Create New Derivative Works? This still wouldn’t necessarily have given the buyer carte blanche to create new derivative works featuring the characters, as opposed to, perhaps, digital screengrabs from individual episodes. When you purchase an NFT, you own the underlying Bored Ape, the Art, completely.

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Miramax, Tarantino and a Fight Over Bright Shiny Objects

Copyright Lately

Miramax claims, among other things, that the preparation and sale of these derivative works constitutes copyright infringement because the contractual rights Tarantino reserved in his 1993 agreement with Miramax don’t cover NFTs. The breathless media reports soon followed. ” However, in its Compendium of U.S.

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A Brief Thematic Review of Non-Fungible Tokens and their Copyright

IP and Legal Filings

Such works of art benefit the creator, and they are protected by the law of intellectual property. Copyrights safeguard the artists’ rights in the inventive and imaginative content that abounds in digital media. NFTs give creative and artistic people a forum to digitally assess their creative work.

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Reader Survey: Tell Us Whether You Think Stability AI Outputs are Substantially Similar to Andersen Plaintiffs’ Original Works

LexBlog IP

Specifically, the judge said that for their vicarious copyright infringement claims to remain viable, the plaintiffs would have to at least allege that derivative works created using AI programs that generate images in response to user prompts are “substantially similar” to their original copyright-protected works.

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[Guest post] Bad Bunny shoo shooes anyone liking AI-generated song replicating his style and voice – is he right?

The IPKat

by Despoina Dimitrakopoulou Recently, the news of reggaeton mega-star Bad Bunny's eloquently put disappointment spread on social media, bringing up interesting questions concerning music creation using AI. Concerning the lawfulness of the outcome of this machine training, we need clarity on the exclusivity of making derivative works.

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Taking the Mona Lisa Effect from Illusion to Reality: Enhancing the Museum Experience with Augmented and Virtual Reality

JIPEL Copyright Blog

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.