JD Supra Law

JULY 11, 2022

Technology is changing, but is copyright law keeping up? Copyright Office over its refusal to register artwork created by his artificial intelligence software. . Stephen Thaler clearly believes it is not and has sued the U.S. By: Dorsey & Whitney LLP

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 24, 2025

Key Takeaways: - Confirming the position of the Copyright Office and past precedent considering the possibility of non-human authors, the D.C. Circuit held this week that the Copyright Act does not protect works created entirely by AI. The D.C.

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Art Law Journal

MARCH 9, 2021

Whether or not you manage to sell your artwork is driven not by the product, but what you do with the product. The post 8 Reasons Why You’re Not Successful Selling Artwork appeared first on Art Business Journal. Here are some of the most crucial factors.

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Art Law Journal

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Artist Borbay shares his approach for pricing artwork and reveals the secrets behind his popular contemporary art pricing chart. The post Pricing Artwork with Borbay’s Contemporary Art Pricing Chart appeared first on Art Business Journal.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Whether that is true under the law has not been tested. In short, AI artwork has emerged so quickly that there are significant practical, legal and ethical issues surrounding it and the battle lines on all three are being drawn as we speak. Proactive disclosure prevents people from feeling misled by the artwork.

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JD Supra Law

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Copyright Office Review Board affirmed the Copyright Office’s refusal to register a digital artwork created with the Midjourney text-to-image GenAI tool. On September 5, 2023, the U.S.

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JD Supra Law

APRIL 1, 2025

non-humans) under Copyright Law. Circuit affirmed the denial of Stephen Thalers copyright application, which included artwork generated fully by his AI model, the Creativity Machine, on the basis that it is not a human being as required by the Copyright Act of 1976.

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JD Supra Law

JUNE 10, 2022

Let’s break down that mouthful: NFTs are a blockchain technology that creates indisputable ownership records that the art world has embraced as a way to buy and sell digital artwork. Bored Apes” are a specific line of NFTs depicting original characters based on – you guessed it – bored. By: Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 24, 2022

” I was barely out of law school when a senior partner muttered those words as he handed me a scathing demand letter sent to one of the firm’s commercial director clients. copyright law. AI-generated art isn’t perfect, but it’s become a viable option for set decor on motion pictures and other commercial productions.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 20, 2023

As IPKat readers are surely aware, his fame extends well beyond the art world, given that Koons has contributed as litigant to some of the most interesting copyright case law around the world [see, eg, IPKat coverage here ]. There, it was presented as an original Koons artwork of which three copies exist.

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Art Law Journal

JUNE 2, 2022

After you’ve put the finishing touches on your masterpiece, figuring out how to market it with a compelling artwork title might be the last thing on your mind. Peruse these practical tips for how to choose an artwork title that is memorable and meaningful. . Think of an artwork title that resonates. You’re an artist! A portrait?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 2, 2023

Copyright in Photographs, Established in Late 1800s The age-old strife between new technology and old law is epitomized by a hundred-year-old story of how copyrights came to exist in photographs after the invention of the camera. Sarony carefully arranged the setting and Wilde’s pose, then selected from 27 images. 18 (see image at right).

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The IP Law Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Hermès is suing an artist for trademark infringement over his series of digital artworks called MetaBirkins. Scott Hervey and Josh Escovedo discuss the case on this episode of The Briefing by the IP Law Blog. Listen to this podcast episode here. Watch this episode here:

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 27, 2022

1: Top EU Court Rejects Polish Complaint Over Copyright Law. However, the ECJ has now rejected that complaint, saying that the law places clear limitations on the uses of such tools and that the law would have significant benefit for creators. Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 25, 2025

Stephen Thaler claims to have created a generative-AI system dubbed Creativity Machine, which Thaler says created a picture that Dr. Thaler titled A Recent Entrance to Paradise (the Artwork). By: MoFo Tech

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 30, 2023

HOW ANDY WARHOL IS STILL SHAPING AMERICAN COPYRIGHT LAW In October 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments regarding whether pop artist Andy Warhol’s artwork made fair use of a photo of a music legend, Prince, in Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. Lynn Goldsmith. By: McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 20, 2024

On February 15, 2024, the United States Copyright Office published a notice of proposed rulemaking, proposing to create a new group registration option for published two-dimensional artwork. The proposed rule, which the Copyright Office calls “GR2D,” would allow applicants to register up to ten.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 31, 2023

Digital artwork created by an AI system has once again been denied U.S. copyright law only affords protection to works of human creation. copyright registration. The ruling in Thaler v.

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IIPRD

JANUARY 22, 2025

One such legal issues is what is referred to as “fair use,” which becomes particularly problematic in the context of the copyright law. Thus, fundamental questions arise, such as whether such copying amounts to infringement under copyright law or whether it falls under the purview of fair use. Goldsmith (2023) [2].

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In the background of the photo was a piece of artwork by photographer Jora Frantzis, who inspired the work. has refused to implement a “dumb” upload filter, saying that it will lead to overblocking and that it should be avoided under EU law. The work in question was part of his series Marge Simpsons Style Icon.

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IPilogue

MARCH 2, 2023

Cynthia Zhang is a 3L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. This development has led legal commentators to observe that, unfortunately, the copyright law surrounding celebrity tattoos remains unclear. For now, the law is still hazy. megastar Randy Orton. Copyright protection over tattoos has been a hot topic for some time.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 16, 2023

District Court for the District of Columbia in a lawsuit over copyright eligibility for artwork created by AI systems. federal law and that the copyright should vest in Thaler under common law property principles and the work made for hire doctrine.

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IIPRD

MARCH 1, 2023

Since an artist is responsible for the very conception of his painting, drawing, sculpting or a literary work, he is entitled to monetary compensation upon the artwork’s sale. This right emanates from the personhood theory of copyright law which forms the basis of moral rights and has been accepted throughout the world.

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JD Supra Law

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Here at the TMCA, we have been covering an AI-related issue of particular interest to IP attorneys – the ongoing battle of Dr. Stephen Thaler to copyright artwork created by AI software. By: Dorsey & Whitney LLP

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Left is my original artwork from my video. Graphic design is credited to award-winning graphic designer Jeremy Samples, so it's disappointing they would copy instead of producing original artwork. However, what may be best for Disney in a court of law could be actively working against them in the court of public opinion.

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IPilogue

JULY 18, 2022

Tianchu Gao is an IPilogue Writer and a 2L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. There seems to have always been tension between artistic creativity and copyright law. Yet the current law of copyright cannot fully accommodate the sophisticated theories of contemporary art.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 28, 2022

In 2018, Steven Thaler filed an application to register a copyright for a computer-generated image created autonomously by a computer algorithm, the “Creativity Machine”. (We We previously wrote about Mr. Thaler’s unsuccessful attempt to obtain a patent naming an AI machine as the inventor.)

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 29, 2024

For more than seven decades, international law has consistently led countries to embrace culture as a global and cross-border value for humanity. Italian Courts followed suit putting forward creative judicial engineering of new forms of exclusivity on Italian cultural heritage artworks in the public domain.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 16, 2022

You now own what is effectively an immutable electronic deed meant to record ownership of an asset, often a digital artwork. By: Proskauer - Blockchain and the Law You probably paid for the NFT upfront—and if the artist is popular, you may have paid a substantial sum.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 16, 2022

Here is the breakdown of works (note: 1 claim involves both photos and artwork, so I counted the claim in both categories): Photos: 19. Artwork: 8. A Summary of the Copyright Claims Board (CCB) [Excerpt from my Internet Law casebook]. Literary: 4. I definitely did not expect this many music and movie cases in the CCB.

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Olartemoure Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

La entrada Incidental use of artworks se publicó primero en OlarteMoure | Intellectual Property. This decision provides legal certainty to the audiovisual industry in copyright infringement disputes in Colombia and the Andean Community.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Banksy's Laugh Now But One Day We’ll Be In Charge A while ago The IPKat reported [ here and here ] on a string of cancellations of elusive artist Banksy ’s EU trade mark (EUTM) registrations relating to some of their best-known artworks. The reason?

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 15, 2023

student at National Law University, Delhi. The Copyright Office had earlier refused registration for the artwork for lack of human authorship necessary to support a copyright claim. Interestingly, the artwork also led to controversy in India when it was granted registration in November 2020. Vedika is a third-year B.A.LL.B.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

More from our authors: International Cybersecurity and Privacy Law in Practice, Second Edition by Charlotte A. This first duel has ended in a victory for the NFTs, at least for now. VEGAP has announced that it has appealed this judgment. We will have to keep an eye out for the second round. Place your bets!

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 1, 2022

On February 14, 2022, the Copyright Review Board denied registration for a two-dimensional artwork entitled “A Recent Entrance to Paradise.” What was notable about this artwork was that it was created by artificial intelligence (“AI”). By: Stacey Kalamaras - Kalamaras Law Office

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Ariel Goldberg a 1L JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The Code of the Cultural and Landscape Heritage’s legal force is separate from copyright laws and remains in effect when copyright protection does not. Photo Credits: The Fashion Law ; Jean Paul Gaultier ).

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

AI generated art is made autonomously by artificial intelligence without human creative input (see below for the artwork Dall-E 2 created in response to my suggestion “a machine painting a canvas”). Copyright law grants authorship to the “person who causes the work to be created” for such works. iii] This is, admittedly, old news.

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