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Trademark In Artistic Works 1 Year After Jack Daniel's

IP Law 360

VIP products ruling, courts have applied Jack Daniel's inconsistently to deny First Amendment protection to artistic works, providing guidance for dismissing trademark claims relating to film and TV titles, say Hardy Ehlers and Neema Sahni at Covington. In the year since the U.S. Supreme Court's Jack Daniel's v.

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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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[Guest post] Can the owner of an artistic work convert it into an NFT for its use in the Metaverse?

The IPKat

Now, a further development on IP and NFTs comes from Spain, as Katfriend Mercedes Morán Ruiz (CEDRO) reports: Can the owner of an artistic work convert it into an NFT for its use in the Metaverse? Moreover, it seems that MANGO also transformed the original works, including new elements on them, and displayed the output on OpenSea.

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Copyright Office Says Tattoo Artist's Work Can Be Protected

IP Law 360

Federal copyright officials said a tattoo artist's contributions to a pair of designs made them able to be protected by copyright law, the latest dustup in an intellectual property dispute between the artist and the maker of the NBA 2K video game series.

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Implications Of AI On Literary And Artistic Works : A Challenge On The Copyright System

IP and Legal Filings

How is then Artificial Intelligence related to Copyrights, with an added intricacy of Literary and artistic work? Applications of artificial intelligence (AI) are capable of independently creating literary and artistic creations. It is a notion held generally ‘AI can create.’ COPYRIGHT PROTECTION AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.

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Tennessee Adopts Landmark Law To Protect Artists Against AI

IP Law 360

Bill Lee signed into law Thursday a first-of-its-kind legislation intended to tackle misuse of artificial intelligence by modifying a state law banning unauthorized copies of artists' works to cover musicians, their voices and their songs. Tennessee Gov.

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New Tenn. Bill Would Extend AI Laws To Musicians

IP Law 360

A recently introduced bill in Tennessee would modify the state's laws banning unauthorized copies of artists' works to cover musicians, their voices and their songs.