Artistic Work Copyright Law Public Domain 
SpicyIP
APRIL 18, 2025
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).
Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
EU Copyright Directive (Article 17): In Europe, Article 17 of the Copyright Directive mandates that platforms obtain licenses for copyrighted content, which could extend to AI training datasets. Some jurisdictions lack clear laws on whether AI-created songs can be copyrighted or if they belong to the public domain.
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Kluwer Copyright Blog
JUNE 30, 2021
The evolution in the case law of the Second Circuit may constitute a game changer for documentary makers. As pointed out by Keith Aoki, James Boyle and Jennifer Jenkins in Bound by Law? Tales from the Public Domain , “documentaries are records of our culture. by Tito Rendas. € by Martin Senftleben. €
Kluwer Copyright Blog
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Voices emerged questioning whether current EU copyright laws should be amended in light of the many AI-generated works that have come about. One important question has been whether copyright law should be extended in order to protect such works. Importantly, copyright law is equally about culture.
IPilogue
MARCH 21, 2022
In September 2021, the IPilogue reported that India’s copyright office recognized the RAGHAV Painting App (“RAGHAV”), an artificial intelligence (“AI”) tool, as an author of the copyright-protected artistic work, Suryast. Regardless of the position taken, the government must act urgently to address AI and copyright.
IP and Legal Filings
MAY 3, 2023
The word “originality” is frequently used in conjunction with the creativity of writers, thinkers, and artists. The Copyright , Designs and Patents Act of 1988 in the United Kingdom specifies in Section (1)(1)(a) that copyright exists in “original literary, dramatic, musical, or artistic works.” can have copyright.
IP and Legal Filings
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
But, as an exception, the doctrine of merger provides that if the expression of an idea is merged with the idea itself, then such an expression can also be denied copyright protectio n. The absence of this doctrine would defeat the very purpose of copyright law. Fixation: The work must be fixed in a tangible medium.
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