IPilogue

JUNE 13, 2022

Nikita Munjal is an IP Innovation Clinic Fellow and a third-year JD/MBA Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. This article was written as a requirement for Prof. Artists in the digital space have always been vulnerable to the unauthorized distribution, copying, and sale of their work.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

However, many a times, we witness these designs being copied or recreated. Copying designs as well as creating replicas of any sort which closely resemble the general composition or the original blueprint infringes the right of the creator. To counter this issue laws are placed so that the original ideas can be protected.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 13, 2024

The introduction and advancement of generative AI technology, which is capable of producing everything from research articles to realistic artworks, has brought a revolution in the field of creativity. AI additionally possesses no copyright on the material that it generates.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Provisions of intellectual property law will be applicable to NFTs. Additionally, pursuant to Article 25 of the ITE Law, electronic information and electronic documents formed into an intellectual work, internet site or intellectual work contained therein are protected by intellectual property rights.

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IIPRD

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Law and the courts encourage innovation by guaranteeing its unrestricted flow while continuously attempting to avert abuse. This article will discuss the rules about intellectual property that control the media and entertainment industry, as well as the importance of protecting IP and its various applications in these fields.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 18, 2023

In particular, it stands out a concept which is frequently neglected when NFTs are explained: the link to the image, i.e., the artwork, is not contained in the smart contract (the piece of software written in Solidity programming language which generates an NFT) but in a JSON file (“JavaScript Object Notation”) which contains the NFT’s metadata.

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IP Tech Blog

JANUARY 4, 2023

Article 3 of the China Copyright Law defines copyrightable works as intellectual creations with originality in the realm of literature, art or science that can be represented in a certain form (the “tangibility” requirement in the US) and expands its scope by including other intellectual creations that meet the characteristics of works.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

The French subsidiary stressed that a clause was indeed inserted into their agreement stating that the studio is responsible for providing original artistic designs, and that in the case of quoting or copying, it must obtain official legal approval from the original artists (See here ). Commentary & Conclusion Kurasov v.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

The French subsidiary stressed that a clause was indeed inserted into their agreement stating that the studio is responsible for providing original artistic designs, and that in the case of quoting or copying, it must obtain official legal approval from the original artists (See here ). Commentary & Conclusion Wali v.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

AI-generated works have won awards: The Crow , an “AI-made” film won the Jury Award at the Cannes Short Film Festival and the story of an AI artwork winning the Colorado State Fair’s annual art competition was reported in The New York Times. Registration was refused in August 2019, in line with previous US case law and guidance.

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IP Tech Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

The main principle practitioners can derive from Goldsmith is that transformation alone is not enough render copying of a reference work “fair use.” The Court recognized that the “purpose and character” of some copying could be “transformative” and thus could favor a finding of fair use. Goldsmith et al, Case No.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 23, 2023

Over the past week, the plaintiffs’ lawsuit has been the subject of thousands of articles which have largely parroted the complaint’s key talking point: that AI image generators are nothing more than “ a 21st-century collage tool that remixes the copyright works of millions of artists whose work was used as training data.”

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 2, 2023

The main principle practitioners can derive from Goldsmith is that transformation alone is not enough render copying of a reference work “fair use.” ” The Court recognized that the “purpose and character” of some copying could be “transformative” and thus could favor a finding of fair use.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 4, 2023

Article 3 of the China Copyright Law defines copyrightable works as intellectual creations with originality in the realm of literature, art or science that can be represented in a certain form (the “tangibility” requirement in the US) and expands its scope by including other intellectual creations that meet the characteristics of works.

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43(B)log

JULY 20, 2022

Chiusa also has a registration for a brochure, stating that he created “text, photograph(s), [and] artwork on p.1” This text contained “some creative elements that are plausibly entitled to protection, such that outright copying would be prohibited.” 1” therein.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In order to train their technologies, should AI companies be allowed to use works under copyright protection without consent? The lawsuits brought by the owners of such works, including artworks in the case of image-generators and journalism in the NYT case, claim that this should not be allowed. copyright law.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Copyright Law Why are we so sure facts are excluded from the statute when the statute doesn’t use that word and uses a lot of other words. Harper & Row is cited by Feist to reiterate that selection coordination and arrangements of facts can be copyrightable. Q: Why are photos rejected less than artwork?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

In this part II we discuss two additional aspects, with a focus on UK copyright law and the EU copyright acquis. The First Sale Doctrine in the Metaverse The first sale doctrine, also referred to as the ‘ principle of exhaustion’ , is a longstanding tenet of copyright (and more in general intellectual property) law.

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IIPRD

AUGUST 4, 2022

There are several reasons why intellectual property (IP) may be particularly helpful in this digital age, including: Avoid having your original material copied. Whether NFT is their unique work or they prefer to mix copyrighted material with another artist, content producers are still protected by copyright law.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 9, 2023

TLDR Generative AI is one of the hot topics in copyright law today. In the EU, a crucial legal issue is whether using in-copyright works to train generative AI models is copyright infringement or falls under existing text and data mining (TDM) exceptions in the Copyright in Digital Single Market (CDSM) Directive.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

As shown in the image below, the image at the top right is the original tweet from the official @GenshinImpact account ( 1 ), and the two images at the bottom are the alleged copies ( 1 , 2 ) published by @merlin_impact. For example, the article published here reproduces both pieces of artwork in full but isn’t targeted in a subpoena.

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Art Law Journal

JUNE 16, 2022

It’s heartbreaking to find your artwork on a t-shirt at Forever 21 or as an image on someone’s blog without your permission. Congress included a “statutory damages” provision in the Copyright Act to ensure that artists receive guaranteed compensation for an infringement along with making any infringement case easier and faster to litigate.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Presently, a new reference from the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) asks the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) for vital interpretive guidance concerning the parody exception within copyright law. This approach, initially applied to cultural politics by Dentith, can be similarly adopted within copyright law.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Within days, stock image supplier Getty Images announced that it was one of the “folks” who disagreed – and disagreed so strongly that it had commenced legal proceedings in the High Court in London alleging copyright infringement. This exception provides copyright will not be infringed by the making of a: 1. temporary copy which is; 2.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 6, 2022

Just don’t forget about real world copyright law. ? Buying Copyrights. The first thing that’s important to understand is that buying a copy of a creative work, even if it happens to the only copy in existence, doesn’t give you any copyright interest in the work. Buying Objects ?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 7, 2023

Goldsmith et al sheds light on different perspectives of copyright law in common law and civil law countries. This brief post dives into this duality, as exampled by American and Brazilian law. An example would be an artist copying a previous painting and merely altering the colors to pass it off as a new creation.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 8, 2024

Copy-reliant technologies have banked heavily on that principle over recent years and it wouldn’t be a stretch to say that the principle of non-expressive use has become the legal foundation of how the internet essentially works. Litigation against these models has piled up at the same breakneck speed as they have gained ground.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 16, 2023

Top 3 Kluwer Copyright Blog posts 1) Generative AI, Copyright and the AI Act by João Pedro Quintais “ Generative AI is one of the hot topics in copyright law today. In particular, Article 4 CDSM Directive contains a so-called “commercial” TDM exception, which provides an “opt-out” mechanism for rights holders.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 9, 2024

Writing ad copy, which authors need to sell their works. Campbell took a holistic conception of fair use justifications and emphasized the importance of fair use to provide breathing space; courts must consider all factors together and weigh them in light of the ends of copyright law. What about widely distributed works?

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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

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. A used copy will set you back $1.09; for reasons unknown, a new copy is going for $113.03—In

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 8, 2022

was accused of copying specific elements, including parts of some of the original artwork. Parody has strong protection under both trademark and copyright law, and the risks associated with targeting such parodies are seen as greatly outweighing the possible gains. Where Who’s Holiday! Bottom Line.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 20, 2022

See New York Times article entitled Supreme Court; Full Docket Awaits Spring Cleaning. See Business Standard article entitled Spring cleaning in the Supreme Court: The new Chief Justice swats frivolous litigation but more measures are needed. petitions, motions, and other filings as possible in the same time frame, for instance.

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