TorrentFreak

MAY 25, 2022

This archive not only allows rightsholders to monitor trends relevant to them, but also shines light on how copyright can be abused to impede the free flow of information. The notice, sent by anti-piracy company Irdeto on behalf of Blizzard Entertainment, is verifiably legitimate and addresses a genuine case of copyright infringement.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Attorneys acting for Cognosphere inform the court that the company is the exclusive licensee of Genshin Impact in the United States and other territories, which includes any artwork, gameplay footage, and related audiovisual content. What happens after useful information is handed over is rarely discussed in public.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The growth of artificial intelligence (“AI”) and generative AI is moving copyright law into unprecedented territory. While US copyright law continues to develop around AI, one boundary has been set: the bedrock requirement of copyright is human authorship. Perlmutter, et.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

DMCA subpoenas compel service providers, such as Discord, Twitter or Reddit, to hand over information they hold on users identified by rightsholders as copyright infringers. In the event that useful personal information is disclosed to Cognosphere’s legal team, a number of options become available.

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IIPRD

JANUARY 7, 2025

Selection of the suitable Algorithm: The particular task or issue that the AI system is intended to resolve informs the selection of AI algorithms. An AI might be used to propagate false information or spam using those created symbols, seriously hurting the owner of the trademark.

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Traverse Legal Blog

MARCH 8, 2022

The image of the Crypto Punk linked to the NFT placed on to the blockchain is copyright protected. The art inside the gallery is protected by COpyright law. Copyrights protect original works of authorship, such as the digital asset being offered with the NFT. Copyrights protection for the artwork itself is also critical.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 3, 2022

Unicolors is the owner of copyrights in various fabric designs, including a 2011 copyright registration that consisted of 31 separate designs. The jury found in Unicolors favor and H&M moved the court for judgment as a matter of law, which the trial court denied. First, the Court looked to the text of 17 U.S.C.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 21, 2023

On December 11, 2023, the Copyright Review Board affirmed the Copyright Office’s decision to reject Ankit Sahni’s application to register the AI-generated work depicted above. In effect, Sanhi was attempting to register the artwork as a derivative of his photograph. Shira Perlmutter, et al.:

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Traverse Legal Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2022

An NFT, or “non-fungible token” is a token added to a blockchain that links ownership to unique digital items (images, video files, audio files, artworks, etc.). Your work is protected by copyright law from the moment it is “created and fixed in a tangible form that it is perceptible either directly or with the aid of a machine or device”.

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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

JANUARY 23, 2023

Copyrights safeguard the artists’ rights in the inventive and imaginative content that abounds in digital media. In today’s digital world, a lot of data and information have been shared online and are susceptible to corruption and copying. Image Sources : Gettyimages] One of the important issues in online is copyrights.

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 6, 2024

This guide explores the process, benefits, and key points about copyright registration in India. Abstract This blog provides complete information to go about the registration for copyright in a systematic manner with due incorporation of all steps required to help creators of the works of art. What is Copyright?

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SpicyIP

APRIL 18, 2025

Inox India Limited and Others , Aditya Bhargava writes on the question of “functional utility” and how it informs the two pronged test by the Court. Aditya is a third-year law student at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. copyright law, useful articles (like clothing, furniture, appliances, etc.)

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

For a work to be copyrightable, it must be “original ” and fixed in “ tangible form”, such as a sound “recording recorded on a CD” or a “literary work printed on paper ”. [2] It receives the full set of rights under copyright law, just like literary, dramatic, or artistic work”. Beyond copyright, data privacy raises its head.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 10, 2023

“The Content infringes Cognosphere’s exclusive rights under copyright law. The corresponding DMCA takedown notice sent to GitHub requests “expeditious action to remove or disable access to the Genshin Impact Artwork as referenced above.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Copyright Office and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office held a conference on machine learning and copyright law (see “ Copyright Law and Machine Learning for AI: Where Are We and Where Are We Going ?”). Copyright Office launched a study to examine the copyright law and policy issues raised by generative AI.

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BYU Copyright Blog

APRIL 29, 2024

New Generative AI Copyright Disclosure Act of 2024 Introduced Legislation or Federal Rulemaking,Artificial Intelligence April 29, 08:59 AM April 29, 08:59 AM On April 09, 2024, a new piece of legislation was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives concerning Artificial Intelligence and Copyright Law. Sarony , 111 U.S.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 28, 2022

While NFT platforms are not yet specifically regulated, they are subject to the provisions on Electronic System Providers (“ESPs”) contained in several regulations, as follows: • Law No. 11 of 2008, dated April 21, 2008, regarding Electronic Information and Transactions, as amended by Law No 19 of 2016, dated November 25, 2016.•

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The USCO will use this information to analyse the current state of the law, identify unresolved issues and to advise the Congress. The deadline to respond is 18 October 2023. The applicant argued that he had contributed significantly to the creation of this image.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 8, 2024

To put it more metaphorically, it is the legal green light for web crawlers nowadays to scour all corners of the internet, scraping information from websites and databases, indexing their content, and storing it for later retrieval, typically by search engines.

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Traverse Legal Blog

APRIL 6, 2021

There are also subpoena issues regarding digital information you might need from internet service providers or ISPs to prove yoru litigaiton case. . But your competitors or others start using those original pieces of artwork, those original photographs by your company to display product on eBay, Amazon, Buy.com, or on other e-commerce sites.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Apart from revolutionizing the creative markets, the ability to obtain new artworks with an increasing marginalization of human contribution has inevitably tested the fitness of copyright legislations all over the world to deal with the so-called “artificial intelligence” (‘AI’). ChatGPT , Smodin ), to perform music (i.e.,

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 10, 2022

The Rise of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) and the Role of Copyright Law – Part II by Peter Mezei , João Pedro Quintais , Alexandra Giannopoulou and Balázs Bodó. The Rise of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) and the Role of Copyright Law – Part I by Peter Mezei , João Pedro Quintais , Alexandra Giannopoulou and Balázs Bodó.

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The IP Law Blog

JANUARY 12, 2023

When looking into company assets protectable under federal copyright laws, one should check the company’s website, marketing materials, manuals, YouTube videos, podcasts, posted content on Instagram, TikTok, and the like, photos, software, blog posts, articles, white papers, etc.

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IIPRD

APRIL 8, 2024

This article delves into the ongoing debate around the issue of right of ownership of copyright by AI generators for their novel artwork. This is a major point of contention in the realm IP laws today whether or not AI can be given the said rights and protections under law. In a recent case i.e. Anderson v.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 21, 2025

As todays manifestations of GenAI had not even been known back in 2019, it was simply impossible to take an informed decision on whether the Article 4 approach would lead to appropriate solutions in practice. Hence, it will be necessary to provide additional information: which authors and rightsholders does the collecting society represent?

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Traverse Legal Blog

JANUARY 29, 2022

If you’re selling a digital rendition of a piece of artwork, you will mint an NFT, which will then attach to that particular piece of digital art. The NFT will link to what the owner is licensing: the actual digital work, the piece of artwork, the image, the video, the audio file, etc. License and Details, Please.

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Copyright Lately

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

People probably aren’t aware, but Spotify just as an example, has been involved in dozens and dozens of rights disagreements with rightsholders, be it on not only songwriting but also the master rights and even also artwork rights. So there’s a lot of nuances out there.

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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Fundamentally, an NFT is just a transactional record and a link to a digital asset (often an image of artwork or a document) stored somewhere on the web. It simply contains information on where you can find the image and serves as proof of authenticity. This is, after all, supposed to be a copyright case.

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The IP Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Allen won first place at the Colorado State Fair (the “Competition”) for the two-dimensional artwork entitled Théâtre D’opéra Spatial (the “Work”), which he produced with the aid of Artificial Intelligence (“AI”). Last year, Jason M.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 17, 2023

How can this be considered an original artwork and who is the author? These are all questions that complicate copyright laws which require that a work be original in order to be protected intellectual property. This case was not addressing AI directly but was determining the authorship of a selfie taken by a monkey.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Presently, a new reference from the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) asks the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) for vital interpretive guidance concerning the parody exception within copyright law. This approach, initially applied to cultural politics by Dentith, can be similarly adopted within copyright law.

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IIPRD

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The inventions of any startups are protected through the Copyright laws. Many startups put the profusion of originality in developing the most attractive creative websites, softwares, and applications that are copyrightable under the Copyright Act, of 1957. Trade Secrets.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

This AI system — the so-called “Creativity Machine” — produced the artwork titled “ A Recent Entrance to Paradise ”. After its creation, he attempted to register this work with the Copyright Office. Copyright Office, Compendium of U.S. Hence and copyright law was therefore not designed to reach them. 102(a) ; U.S.

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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. Congress included a “statutory damages” provision in the Copyright Act to ensure that artists receive guaranteed compensation for an infringement along with making any infringement case easier and faster to litigate.

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

1] The artwork is held by the Italian state museum Gallerie dell’Accademia of Venice, which, along with the Italian Ministry of Culture, initiated the precautionary proceeding against the German company Ravensburger and its Italian subsidiary for producing and selling the puzzle and reproducing the work’s image.

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