LexBlog IP

AUGUST 3, 2023

copyright and patent laws are currently written in a way that require human creation to be eligible for protection. copyright law. This question is of critical importance because the U.S.

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Nikita Munjal is an IP Innovation Clinic Fellow, a Student Editor with the Intellectual Property Journal, and a third-year JD/MBA Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. . Creative works, such as artworks, qualify for copyright protection if they are original. It is not surprising that human artists are granted such protections.

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Patently-O

APRIL 18, 2024

The parties have now filed their briefs, along with one law professor amicus brief in support of Thaler. Using this system, he autonomously generated a 2-D artwork titled “A Recent Entrance to Paradise.” ” In August 2023, the district court granted summary judgment in favor of the Copyright Office.

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IP Tech Blog

JANUARY 4, 2023

Article 3 of the China Copyright Law defines copyrightable works as intellectual creations with originality in the realm of literature, art or science that can be represented in a certain form (the “tangibility” requirement in the US) and expands its scope by including other intellectual creations that meet the characteristics of works.

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CopyrightsWorld

APRIL 29, 2022

The US Copyright Office has determined that some AI artworks cannot be copyrighted in the United States. Last Monday, the Copyright Office issued a fresh ruling rejecting a request to copyright an AI-generated artwork. “Visions of a Dying Brain” created by AI.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 13, 2024

The introduction and advancement of generative AI technology, which is capable of producing everything from research articles to realistic artworks, has brought a revolution in the field of creativity. Copyright law protects just the expression, not the idea itself.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

AI-generated Kats The Review also rejected Thaler’s argument that AI can be an author under copyright law because the work made for hire doctrine allows for “non-human, artificial persons such as companies” to be authors. First, held the Board, a machine cannot enter into any binding legal contract.

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CopyrightsWorld

APRIL 29, 2022

The US Copyright Office has determined that some AI artworks cannot be copyrighted in the United States. Last Monday, the Copyright Office issued a fresh ruling rejecting a request to copyright an AI-generated artwork. “Visions of a Dying Brain” created by AI.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Patent: Blockchain-related inventions can be protected as patents. Article 143 of the Patent Law provides patent holders recourse to file claims in the Commercial Court if the rights under their patent are infringed by another party. Trademark: NFTs may also be protected as a trademark.

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Patentably Defined

AUGUST 28, 2022

This means that nobody else can use your copyrighted material without permission. A copyright is similar to a trademark but protects intellectual property instead of physical products. This means that nobody else can use your copyrighted material without permission.

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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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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 communication to the public right.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 31, 2023

Protection of AI-Generated Content Content that is wholly created by AI is not copyrightable or patentable. Copyright law requires the authoring of a creative work that is fixed in a tangible medium. In the end, nobody owned the copyrights on the photographs—not even the monkeys. ” (Emphasis ours). .”

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 5, 2023

The campaign hopes to pay a lobbyist $187,500 to “educate government officials and policymakers” on a new threat to the creative industries – AI-generated artwork. The Concept Art Association says that some of the money will go to the Copyright Alliance, which already lobbies the government on behalf of its own members.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 4, 2023

It has been debated whether NFTs/DC could be protected in China by design patents. The first view is more closely aligned with traditional copyright law, and the court is likely to view that standard as applicable to NFTs and copyright law. Copyright Ownership. Applicable IP rights.

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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. Registration was refused in August 2019, in line with previous US case law and guidance.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Copyright Law Why are we so sure facts are excluded from the statute when the statute doesn’t use that word and uses a lot of other words. Q: patent parallels: to what extent were parallels solidified in patent law already? That might distinguish it from patent facts/observable things in the world.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

Authors Kennington Groff and Jaime Chandra Kozlowski delve deep into the potential implications of a landmark Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) case that sent ripples through the art world, impacting copyright law including fair use and commercial licensing.

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Intepat

MAY 17, 2024

The nature of Prompts can be understood as Literary Works which is defined in Section 2(o) of the Copyright Act, 1957, as it includes computer programmes, tables and compilations including computer databases. For a prompt to be protected under copyright law, it must meet the criteria of originality and fixation.

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The IP Law Blog

JANUARY 12, 2023

Even companies that regularly take steps to protect intellectual property through, for example, registering trademarks or registering copyrights, can benefit from a yearly review. Such inventions may be protectable under federal patent laws.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 16, 2023

Top 3 Kluwer Copyright Blog posts 1) Generative AI, Copyright and the AI Act by João Pedro Quintais “ Generative AI is one of the hot topics in copyright law today. There have also been 52 automatic withdrawals due to requests for unitary effect of opted-out patents.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 17, 2023

He is interested in IP law, and commercial and criminal litigation. From conflicting positions on AI as a co-author of a work to the contours of information required u/s 39 about the patent applications filed abroad, we had some engaging posts on this blog this week. Cisco Wins Patent Infringement Case Leading $2.75 Bn Award.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

For example, if we ask the Stable Diffusion generator for a “cat wearing a suit” it generates images of dapper cats at the press of a button: As an aside, as it has been discussed previously on the IPKat , there is some uncertainty whether these image outputs are protected under copyright law and, if protected, who owns the relevant copyright.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

AI and Copyright: More Developments – Human Prompts are Not ‘Direct Instructions’ After the Thaler case, the US Copyright Office passed another interesting order on AI-generated works, this time refusing the registration due to the work’s failure to meet the de-minimis threshold. Manju Singhal v. W R Grace v. Saurav Chaudhary v.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 12, 2023

Even companies that regularly take steps to protect intellectual property through, for example, registering trademarks or registering copyrights, can benefit from a yearly review. Such inventions may be protectable under federal patent laws.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 9, 2024

Campbell took a holistic conception of fair use justifications and emphasized the importance of fair use to provide breathing space; courts must consider all factors together and weigh them in light of the ends of copyright law. Courts hated having patent case inside an antitrust case in pay for delay and might hate this too.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 7, 2022

(Readers who are already familiar with the facts of the case and the advantages of registration may skip to “Fraud on the Copyright Office” below.). Unicolors’s business model is to create artwork, copyright it, print the artwork on fabric, and market the designed fabrics to garment manufacturers.”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) refused registration of “Trump Too Small” under Section 2(c) of the Lanham Act ( 15 USC 1052(c) ) because the phrase includes a living individual’s name without his written consent. Tam ” (pages 433 n. 150 and 449 n.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 20, 2022

” Interestingly, this spring cleaning language hits other patents and trade secrets as well. .” ” Interestingly, this spring cleaning language hits other patents and trade secrets as well. As to the real kind, you can check out some Easter Egg related patents here. ’ (Op. Neither Marano [v.

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