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[Guest post] Generative AI, originality, and the potential role of contract in protecting unoriginal works

The IPKat

Here’s what they write: Generative AI, originality, and the potential role of contract in protecting unoriginal works by Adrian Aronsson-Storrier and Oliver Fairhurst Artificial Kat Over the past two years the IPKat has hosted debate on the question of whether the outputs of generative AI tools are protected under copyright law.

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Rights Retention Strategy or How to End a Mexican Stand Off – Part One

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Image via flickr Introduction This two-part blog post is aiming to explain what Rights Retention is and how it works in practice. In the first part, I’ll explain the forces at play in the publishing industry, why copyright ownership in academia is so important and how the publishing process works.

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Shielding Innovation: Understanding Copyright Protection for App Developers and Their Software

Intepat

However, this flourishing industry brings forth a multitude of legal challenges, encompassing privacy concerns and intellectual property protection. In the context of the Copyright Act, computer software is categorized as a ‘literary work’. What is copyright protection?

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Copyright and Generative AI: What Can We Learn from Model Terms and Conditions?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

While creative industries claim their work has been not only stolen but specifically used to replace them, AI providers continue, remarkably, to insist that the millions of images ‘fed’ to the AI can be used without permission as part of the ”social contract” of the Internet. Is it a proper copyright ownership or an assigned license?

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Copyright Ownership of Movies and Films in Canada: Who’s on First?

IPilogue

Something has recently gone awry with the law of copyright ownership in a movie or other film — a “cinematographic work”, as s. Part I of the Act deals with the ownership of copyright in works. Section 13(1) provides that the author of a work is its first copyright owner. 2 of the Copyright Act RSC 1985, c.