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Copyright Laws & Trademark Infringement for NFTs

Traverse Legal Blog

An NFT, or “non-fungible token” is a token added to a blockchain that links ownership to unique digital items (images, video files, audio files, artworks, etc.). Your work is protected by copyright law from the moment it is “created and fixed in a tangible form that it is perceptible either directly or with the aid of a machine or device”.

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AI Generated Art and its conflict with IPR

IIPRD

This article delves into the ongoing debate around the issue of right of ownership of copyright by AI generators for their novel artwork. This is a major point of contention in the realm IP laws today whether or not AI can be given the said rights and protections under law.

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Traditional Tattoos on the Red Carpet: Continuing the Conversation of Collective Ownership

IPilogue

These events point to two prevalent issues within the current legal framework: First, that current intellectual property laws do not properly acknowledge collective ownership over shared culture within Indigenous communities and second, whether tattoo designs have the potential to be protected through copyright laws.

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Copyright Infringement in edited photographs

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Photographs are under the subject matter of copyright which means that photographs are artistic works that attract copyright protection. Hence, the use of Cairou’s photograph by Prince fell under the exception of fair use and would not be an instance of copyright infringement.

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‘AI Generated Work’, ‘Computer Generated’ and ‘Work’ in Copyright: Whether AI Generated Work is a ‘Work’?

SpicyIP

Right on the heels of Vedika’s earlier post , we are pleased to bring to you this guest post by Dr. Anson C J taking an in-depth look into the question of whether an AI-generated work is a “work” under the copyright law. Samuelson argues that, under current law, they are not.

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Unrequited love at the times of French maisons: the Museum vs Le Musée

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Lame comparisons apart, this story is interesting as it is an opportunity to discuss the protectability of artistic works under Italian laws. We have an artwork, displayed in a museum and which is in the public domain. Thus, not only it is for the authority taking care of the artwork (e.g. Second, Art.

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Paradise Lost: Human Involvement Still Required for “Creativity Machine’s” Work

LexBlog IP

Copyright Office (“USCO”) in which the USCO denied an application to register a work authored entirely by an artificial intelligence program. 2] The USCO, maintaining this perspective and upholding the human authorship requirement with respect to GenAI works, refused to register the copyright claim in the Work.