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WaterRower: Has the UK’s approach to ‘artistic works’ in copyright changed?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

It seems inevitable that UK copyright law will change at some stage. It increasingly appears that judges are waiting for a case which requires the inconsistencies between EU and UK copyright law to be addressed. 4 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1994 (“CDPA”), when considered under either UK or EU copyright law.

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[Part II] Cryogas Judgment: Supreme Court Stops Copyright from ‘Gaslighting’ Design

SpicyIP

The court (Justice Gautam Patel) reasoned that Section 15(2) only talks about designs, not artistic works and the Designs Act explicitly excludes artistic works from the definition of design. The upshot was that those drawings, not being designs, could retain copyright as artistic works (since 15(2) didnt apply to them).

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Fonts & Typefaces: Are they Copyrightable? 

SpicyIP

Fonts & Typefaces: Are they Copyrightable? . This post only deals with copyrightability of fonts from artistic work perspective and does not explore the copyrightability of fonts as code or literary works. Debunking the ‘no copyright for fonts’ Argument. Shivam Kaushik.

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US Copyright Office refuses to register AI-generated work, finding that "human authorship is a prerequisite to copyright protection"

The IPKat

Can a work entirely created by a machine be protected by copyright? AI-generated Kats The Review also rejected Thaler’s argument that AI can be an author under copyright law because the work made for hire doctrine allows for “non-human, artificial persons such as companies” to be authors.

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Is it a Picasso? A Rembrandt? No, it’s Artificial Intelligence

IPilogue

In August of 2021, India’s copyright office recognized the RAGHAV Painting App, an artificial intelligence tool, as the co-author of a copyright-protected artistic work , Suryast. There are two opposing views on authorship and originality regarding copyright protection for AI-assisted or AI-generated works.

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PROTECTING ARCHITECTURAL WORKS IN THE INDIAN IP REGIME

Intepat

COPYRIGHT PROTECTION OF ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNS Under the Copyright Act, 1957, architectural works are protected by Section 2(b) which defines a work of architecture to be any building or structure having an artistic character or design, or a model of such building or structure.

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The WaterRower: A Work of Art “Oar” Not?

IPilogue

Katie Graham is an IPilogue Writer and a 2L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. A decision dated August 5, 2022 from the United Kingdom’s High Court of Justice has the potential to expand the definition of “artistic works of craftmanship” under UK copyright law. Liking”), to strike out Water Rower (UK) Ltd.’s

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