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Bungie & Ubisoft Reach $300,000 Settlement With Ring-1 Cheat Sellers

TorrentFreak

Other claims in the complaint include the unlawful reproduction of copyrighted artwork and game files, plus inducing and contributing to the copyright-infringing acts of Ring-1 customers, who allegedly create unauthorized derivative works when they deploy Ring-1 cheats.

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Impact of AI on Global IP Systems

IIPRD

CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION AND TRADE SECRETS The legislation may offer more adaptable protection for trade secrets or private information. Legislative measures on trade secrets coexist with a common law system of confidentiality protection in the United Kingdom. 14] What responsibilities have arisen?

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Fatal Mistakes Made By The ‘Bored Ape Yacht Club’ & ‘Crypto Punks’ NFT Projects

Traverse Legal Blog

Copyrights protection for the artwork itself is also critical. Any NFT project offering Apes are derivative of the artwork for the Bored Ape yacht CLub are potentially infringing the BAYC’s copyrights. The senior rights holder can stop any identical brand name use and any name, words, or logo that is confusingly similar.

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Never Too Late: If you missed the IPKat last week!

The IPKat

Confidential Information Image by Riana Harvey Annsley Merelle Ward discussed the recent decision Mimo Connect v Burley & Ors [2023] EWCA Civ 909 and in particular the fact that facts are everything in confidential information cases. Here is a brief recap of the topics covered last week on The IPKat.

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Intellectual Property Theft: A Menace

Kashishipr

Theft of Copyright: Generally, Copyright Infringement happens when an original film or artwork or musical work, or software code is reproduced (in whole or part) bearing similarity to the original work or has multiple and identifiable elements copied in a derivative work. They steal information and trade the same to competitors for benefits.

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Artifical Intelligence Vis-À-Vis Ownership and Authorship Right under Copyright Law

IP and Legal Filings

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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The stubborn memory of generative AI: overfitting, fair use, and the AI Act

Kluwer Copyright Blog

By April last year, over one billion pieces of artwork had been removed from the Stable Diffusion training set. Together, these two provisions technically facilitate the exercise of opt-outs and shift more allocative power to copyright holders ( see here ).

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