Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JUNE 23, 2022

In China’s first copyright infringement case including NFT digital work, a court recently decided. On Bigverse, the plaintiff learned that a user had created and sold a nearly similar NFT digital work to the copyrighted item in dispute, complete with the artist’s Weibo watermark. Background.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

Such NFTs were never put on a blockchain nor offered to the public (they were what are known as “lazy minted NFTs”). VEGAP has announced that it has appealed this judgment.

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Art Law Journal

JUNE 16, 2022

It’s heartbreaking to find your artwork on a t-shirt at Forever 21 or as an image on someone’s blog without your permission. The theft of your intellectual property, also known as an infringement, is not that different from any theft of your property — except you can’t go to the police to help you get justice. Let’s find out.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

This means that if Alyssa has sold her hula hooping cat t-shirts to the public, I could take my own photographs of one of the shirts in order to list them on eBay without infringing Alyssa’s copyright in the underlying design. The local news could then take photos of the shirt to use in a story about what a lousy dad I am.

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IPilogue

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Background Banksy’s graffiti artwork Laugh Now first appeared in Brighton, England, in 2002. Typically, artists protect their artwork using only copyright law. However, artists are required to reveal their identity when claiming copyright infringement. street artist Banksy.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JUNE 23, 2022

In China’s first copyright infringement case including NFT digital work, a court recently decided. Background (NFT Copyright). On Bigverse, the plaintiff learned that a user had created and sold a nearly similar NFT digital work to the copyrighted item in dispute, complete with the artist’s Weibo watermark.

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IPilogue

JUNE 13, 2022

Listing someone else’s artwork on an NFT marketplace is as simple as saving a copy of the work from an artist’s website or social media platform and uploading it onto a marketplace where it is minted into an NFT. Alternatively, authors can inform marketplaces of copyright infringement and request the removal of infringing content.

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Olartemoure Blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

He used a cropped photo based on one of Goldsmith’s images to create his artwork. There was no image copyright credit or compensation to Lynn Goldsmith. The photographer threatened to sue the Foundation alleging copyright infringement.

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Intepat

DECEMBER 5, 2024

While NFTs verify the ownership of a digital item, they do not inherently transfer copyright to the buyer. In one notable case, an NFT buyer of a famous digital artwork assumed they had purchased full copyright rights, only to find they could not legally reproduce or profit from the art without the creator’s consent.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 4, 2022

“But Congress, not this Court, decided as a policy matter who should bear the burden of identifying infringement in the first instance.” The court summarizes: Plaintiff appears to dislike that Pinterest obtains revenue from advertisements on its platform, on which Plaintiff’s artwork also appears. Pinterest, Inc.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 16, 2023

To ensure you don’t miss out on interesting IP law developments reported on our other IP blogs, we will, on a regular basis, provide you with an overview of the most-read posts from each of our IP law blogs. ” 3) How to Distinguish Transformative Fair Uses From Infringing Derivative Works?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

This case involves Morford’s 2001 artwork named “Banana and Orange.” Cattelan created artwork named “Comedian” in 2019. The court displayed the respective artworks: Morford sued Cattelan for copyright infringement. Cattelan appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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IPilogue

MARCH 16, 2022

The letter, which describes the site’s actions as “outright theft” and “outrageous as it is brazen,” further demands that HitPiece.com “provide[s] a complete listing of site activities and revenues to date, and account for all NFTs and artwork auctioned off.”. Music NFTs Create New Possibilities for Artists.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 20, 2022

Since the underlying asset in NFTs is primarily art, disputes in relation to NFTs bring up interesting questions pertaining to copyright law, the answers to which have the potential to shape the evolution and growth of NFTs as a medium to create, distribute and collect art. The Right to Create and Sell NFTs.

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Intepat

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

This burgeoning genre is not only pushing the boundaries of artistic expression but also challenging the established norms of copyright ownership. This blog post embarks on a comprehensive journey to unravel the complex issue of copyright ownership in AI-generated art.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Collective Ownership Over Cultural Artwork. Canadian courts have not yet grappled with the issue of collective ownership of Indigenous artwork. The applicant, Indigenous artist John Bulun Bulun, sought relief for copyright infringement of a bark painting, which R & T Textiles had used on t-shirts. Going Forward.

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Recently, Shein is once again being sued for copyright infringement. District Court, Central District of California, on June 15 suing Shein for over $100 million in damages for unauthorized reproductions of her artwork “One is good, more is better.”. In 2019, Mollman registered this artwork with the U.S.

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Kashishipr

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

NTC’s statement regarding the copyright assignment from SK Oil Industries to SSPL wasn’t appropriate as it wasn’t a party in the contract, and therefore, didn’t have the right to question it. NTC didn’t own the copyright in the ‘SOYA DROP’ artwork or label. For more visit: [link].

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 24, 2024

If output works infringe copyright, who is responsible (e.g. prompt filtering) to try to reduce the risk of copyright infringement in outputs? In almost every model or service studied, the risk of copyright infringement in the output work was left, with some decisiveness, with the user. user, service)?

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Traverse Legal Blog

APRIL 1, 2021

NFTs are being used to store smart contracts and authentication for digital artwork and other digital assets. People will bid on an NFT, a non-fungible token, associated with a piece of digital artwork. Sometimes they’re not going to get what they paid for, or the digital artwork will disappear.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

AI-generated works have won awards: The Crow , an “AI-made” film won the Jury Award at the Cannes Short Film Festival and the story of an AI artwork winning the Colorado State Fair’s annual art competition was reported in The New York Times. Very few jurisdictions expressly provide for copyright in computer-generated works.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 10, 2025

Image via Pixabay We have so far seen a considerable (and increasing) discussion on AI and copyright infringement, especially in terms of how current exceptions such as TDM and fair use apply and whether new exceptions or remuneration models are needed. It will depend on how AI developers designed and trained the algorithm.

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The IP Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

After the 2015 transaction between the team and the league closed, the team was sued by a third party who claimed that the Gull logo infringed his artwork entitled “San Diego Gulls”. The team spent about $750,000 defending the copyright infringement lawsuit and ultimately settled with the plaintiff for $330,000.

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IIPRD

MARCH 5, 2025

This has to do with the application of copyright to works made through AI. Blog sought to study global moves or court cases that have taken place regarding uses of copyright in made-always-with-an-AI creation and provide discussion over possible solutions to the future of intellectual property laws. Copyright Office.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 31, 2023

This week’s big IP news is the New York Times suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, trademark dilution and other violations of existing laws. As with most current cases related to AI’s copyright infringement, this one will most likely result in the issuance of a landmark ruling. Microsoft Corp.,

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Traverse Legal Blog

APRIL 6, 2021

Internet Defamation & Copyright Infringement on the Internet. You do all your original artwork, and so all of the different graphics and photographs displaying the different ceiling fans that you have on your website are copyright-owned by you and your company.

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Intepat

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

State of Tamil Nadu (2021) This case involved the unauthorized use of an artwork created by an unknown artist. The Madras High Court ruled in favour of the claimant, stating that the absence of a known author does not negate copyright protection. Recent Case Law on Pseudonymous and Anonymous Works S.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In order to train their technologies, should AI companies be allowed to use works under copyright protection without consent? The lawsuits brought by the owners of such works, including artworks in the case of image-generators and journalism in the NYT case, claim that this should not be allowed. Fair Use Precedent? 106A of the U.S.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 30, 2021

Chapman (‘plaintiffs’) collectively filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Netflix, Amazon, and Apple (‘defendants’), claiming that the defendants had directly and indirectly infringed their copyright over the song “ Fish Sticks n’ Tater Tots ” by using it in their documentary titled ‘Burlesque’ ( Brown v.

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IP Tech Blog

JANUARY 4, 2023

In this blog post we examine how copyright is leveraged to protect NFTs, both in the US and China, with a comparative approach that elucidates both the challenges and potential solutions. For more details on the topic of design and the metaverse in China see our previous blog post. Copyright Enforcement.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JUNE 5, 2023

When Goldsmith issued a cease and desist letter claiming copyright infringement, AWF brought a declaratory judgment action asserting that its use of Goldsmith’s photograph in Orange Prince was protected under the Copyright Act’s fair use doctrine. . § 13] AWF’s use was commercial because AWF licensed the artwork for a fee. [14]

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Kashishipr

JUNE 16, 2021

Theft of Trademarks: Trademark Infringement ensues when a third party makes unwarranted use of a mark in commercial parlance, usually about similar or competing goods, by affixing a mark that is identical or similar to the registered trademark. The act is pursued to deceive or confuse consumers as to the origin of those goods.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 10, 2023

Through an examination of ChatGPT’s ‘Terms of Use’, our former blogger Varsha Jhavar attempts to investigate the copyright implications of the chatbot inter alia touching upon the issue of ownership and assignment of the output generated. Her previous posts on the blog can be viewed here , here , here and here.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 9, 2023

TLDR Generative AI is one of the hot topics in copyright law today. In the EU, a crucial legal issue is whether using in-copyright works to train generative AI models is copyright infringement or falls under existing text and data mining (TDM) exceptions in the Copyright in Digital Single Market (CDSM) Directive.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 30, 2024

In addition, concerns have been raised regarding the authenticity and possession of the artwork, the involvement of the artist, and the authorship and ownership of its copyright in relation to the integration of artificial intelligence into the artistic process. Two major obstacles can be recognized in this context.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

This includes thousands of books the complete Wikipedia and nearly a trillion words extracted from blogs social media and various online platforms. 7] One key concern lies in who holds the copyright for AI-generated works. India recently witnessed a landmark case involving AI and copyright law.

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IP Tech Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

AI has been front and center in the legal space as well, as this blog has detailed here and here. Copyright Office (USCO) is seeking public comments on the various legal, technical and policy issues raised by AI systems. 2023 has been a watershed year for AI with its entry into the broader public consciousness. Now, the U.S.

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