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3 Count: Wriggling Worms

Plagiarism Today

Since then, Shenseea has released an edited version of the video minus the fruit clips. Next up today, Hollie Geraghty at NME reports that the street artist Banksy is calling upon his nearly 12 million Instagram followers to shoplift from a London store following the unauthorized use of some of his artwork.

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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

Copyright Office denied copyright protection for Kashtanova’s Midjourney-generated artwork, the Office found their work lacked the critical component of a human author. The law of the copyrightability of AI-generated artwork is likely to continue to change, but the battle between new technology and old law will timelessly endure.

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Nintendo Hunts Down Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Leaker on Discord

TorrentFreak

The hotly anticipated sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild will go on sale next month in digital and physical formats, with the latter also available as a special Collector’s Edition. The complaint targeted a Discord channel named “Tears of the Kingdom Official Discord Server.”

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Digital art protectable under copyright? Yes, says the Italian Supreme Court

The IPKat

As the well-known Sanremo Music Festival is approaching with the 2023 edition, the Italian Supreme Court recently issued decision No. This decision was rendered in the context of proceedings concerning the alleged unlawful use of an art work created using software in a past edition of said Festival.

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Using that classic piece of art on a book cover: Grr…

The IPKat

Works of art, in the form of the reproduction of a painting, frequently adorns the cover of a reissued edition of a renowned novel. Beyond the obvious attempt to draw a connection between the artwork and the book based a shared sense of the "classical", the artwork also seeks to evoke a more specific connection with the contents of the book.

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The EU imperative to a free public domain: The case of Italian cultural heritage

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Introducing Article 14 of the Copyright in Digital Single Market Directive (CDSMD) , the EU legislator made it mandatory across the 27 Member States to ensure that faithful reproductions of visual artworks belonging to the public domain remain free to circulate and be used across the Union.

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First duel between NFTs and copyright before the Spanish courts: NFTs 1 – Authors 0

Kluwer Copyright Blog

More from our authors: International Cybersecurity and Privacy Law in Practice, Second Edition by Charlotte A. VEGAP has announced that it has appealed this judgment. We will have to keep an eye out for the second round. Who will be the next victor, the NFTs or the authors? Place your bets!

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