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How A Century-Old Insight of Photography Can Inform Legal Questions of AI-Generated Artwork (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Do these creations belong to the artists or the public domain? s advertisement for hats, copying Sarony’s Oscar Wilde No. Copyright Office denied copyright protection for Kashtanova’s Midjourney-generated artwork, the Office found their work lacked the critical component of a human author. By guest blogger Prof.

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Creative Commons and NFTs – is CC licensing compatible with the new technologies?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

With the exception of CC0, CC licences allow authors to keep their copyright whilst at the same time communicate which rights they reserve and which rights they waive for public benefit. By purchasing an NFT one only purchases an actual digital token that normally contains a link to or a copy of a digital artwork.

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Digital collections from GLAM institutions: Policy Paper

Kluwer Copyright Blog

archival fonds shall not be subject to the same remuneration as unique artworks, as advocated by scholars ). National policymakers should review existing sui generis database rights or similar rights, when they exist, in order to avoid limiting access and use of public domain works. Proposal 4. Proposal 8.

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WIPIP Session 8 (copyright)

43(B)log

President Ford couldn’t prevent others from copying bare historical facts. Irwin Karp, counsel to Authors’ League of America, refutes a statement by librarians who are seeking an exemption for photocopying books for repair and research, arguing that information dissemination would be restrained w/o it. They get to bolster the USTR.

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Clarifying Copyright Fair Use in Commercialized and Licensed Visual Arts: Insights from Warhol v. Goldsmith

LexBlog IP

It’s also generally understood that artists should acknowledge their sources of inspiration, especially when these are not part of the public domain. This can involve things like adaptations (such as a film script based on a novel), translations, or artwork based on another piece of art.

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A Brief Thematic Review of Non-Fungible Tokens and their Copyright

IP and Legal Filings

In today’s digital world, a lot of data and information have been shared online and are susceptible to corruption and copying. iv] Through a structured verification procedure that adds a new block, verifies the information, and then adds the data to the blockchain, this system ensures authenticity.

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NFTs and its Relationship with IP Rights

IP and Legal Filings

Many aspiring artists have now started converting their physical and digital artworks into NFTs and putting it up for sale, with many making considerable profits. NFTs have sparked several discussions raising questions on how this would affect IP Rights and what ownership of artwork, especially digital copies of artwork entails.

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