Artwork Book Ownership 
Kluwer Copyright Blog
APRIL 2, 2025
Background As recounted by Lyall (2024) , Finnish artist Sirpa Alalkkl and her husband Paul Palmer, who married in 1997 and separated some 20 years later, disputed the ownership of copyright in artworks she created during the course of their relationship. It addressed these questions as follows.
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
AUGUST 2, 2023
Copyright Office took a stance against generative-AI works, cancelling a copyright claim by author Kris Kashtanova for comic book images made with the aid of Midjourney. Copyright Office denied copyright protection for Kashtanova’s Midjourney-generated artwork, the Office found their work lacked the critical component of a human author.
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IP and Legal Filings
FEBRUARY 16, 2025
Evidence of Ownership : A registered copyright serves as proof of ownership in case of disputes or infringements. manuscript, artwork, software code). This certificate serves as evidence of your copyright ownership and is valid for life plus 60 years. Musical Works : Compositions, songs, and music scores.
Dear Rich IP Blog
MAY 12, 2022
That's because when an artwork is sold, the buyer only acquires ownership of the physical work, for example, the framed painting. As the Seventh Circuit held , “a copyright is not transferred automatically with the transfer of the copyrighted good [thus] when you buy a book, you don’t obtain the right to make and sell copies of it.”
Kluwer Copyright Blog
JUNE 20, 2023
Other than with regard to software, the CJEU rejected the admissibility of digital exhaustion under Article 4(2) InfoSoc Directive by ruling that immaterial copies of e-books made obtainable via download are excluded from the exhaustion doctrine. The preferred form of regulation in the NFT sector is code rather than copyright law.
The IPKat
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
He found 17 entries related to a range of products from books to wine, chocolates, suntan products, clothing, and soft drinks. There were 18 registered copyrighted works related to the Ogopogo, including books, posters, artwork, videos (in some cases, supposedly of the creature itself) and dramatic works.
IPilogue
MARCH 2, 2023
This discussion raises questions of personal agency and asks how an artist can have ownership over their client’s body, even though it’s how their work is physically fixed. As seen in the Kat Von D case, treating tattoos identically to other artworks can open the door for claims in the opposite direction as well.
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