Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

First off today, Adam Schrader at UPI reports that New York artist Kris Kashtanova has received a copyright registration for a graphic novel entitled Zarya of the Dawn , representing the first known copyright registration granted to a work of AI-generated artwork. The post 3 Count: Bridgerton Settlement appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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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. FIFA says that the company only acquired the rights to 28 matches, but that it has “repeatedly and illegally” pirated a large number of matches the license wasn’t valid for.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 27, 2022

3: Immersive Experiences and Copyright: TeamLab Sues MODS for ‘Copying their Artwork’ Finally today, Jonny Walfisz at Euronews reports that the Tokyo-based art collective teamLab has filed a lawsuit against the Los Angeles-based museum, the Museum of Dream Space (MODS) alleging copyright infringement.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Copyright Office has begun the process of revoking a copyright registration that was granted to the human author of a piece of artwork that was generated by artificial intelligence (AI). The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

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Traverse Legal Blog

JANUARY 29, 2022

One of the big problems with the NFT marketplace, where NFTs are both sold and purchased, is that the platform doesn’t provide any licensing language for the digital asset that the owner attaches to the NFT. “These platforms are not providing any license language for the actual asset attached to the NFT.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Aldi was sued for copyright infringement of an artwork that appeared on the packaging of childrens snacks under the BABY BELLIES, LITTLE BELLIES and MIGHTY BELLIES brands, each aimed at different age groups. The brands (hereafter Bellies) were licensed to Every Bite Counts Pty Ltd ("EBC"), including a range of Puffs products.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 26, 2021

If the costume isn’t licensed, why is it not infringing regardless of the name change? In short, Juice Demon is Juice Demon because he can’t be Beetlejuice, not without a license. They are part fashion, part artwork, part branding and part character. Why did the company do this? Even if it is, perhaps, the easiest.

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Traverse Legal Blog

MARCH 8, 2022

In this video, we will also examine the legal strategies each project got right on trademark registration and copyright licensing. Your NFT drop will license your copyright-protected digital asset (i.e., What Rights Are Licensed To Purchasers Buying NFTS? When you buy the Bored Ape NFT, you receive a license to the image.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JUNE 5, 2023

3] The Court found that the Warhol Foundation’s licensing of the Orange Prince to Conde Nast did not have a sufficiently different purpose as the Goldsmith photograph because both were “portraits of Prince used in magazines to illustrate stories about Prince.” [4] 13] AWF’s use was commercial because AWF licensed the artwork for a fee. [14]

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

I first wrote about this case back in March , when Atari filed a complaint accusing State Farm and its advertising partners of improperly appropriating artwork from Atari’s 1983 arcade game “Crystal Castles” for a 6-second online video advertisement. Conversely, in Ringgold v.

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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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Art Law Journal

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Striking the right chord when pricing artwork is tricky to maneuver, especially because overpricing your work versus undervaluing yourself as an artist seems like it’s a very fine line. Establishing Your Market for Pricing Artwork. Create Clarity When Pricing Artwork. Pricing Artwork to Increase Its Value. Borbay.com.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2022

(DDI) acted with willful blindness in submitting a fifth Takedown Notice to Amazon asking that auto stickers it alleged infringed its licensed artwork be removed from the site. began selling a sticker that DDI alleged infringed the licensed copyright. In 2018, Alper Automotive, Inc.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 20, 2021

They released ‘sizzle reels’ to market the cheat using Destiny 2 artwork and developed software to hook into copyrighted Destiny 2 code thereby producing an unlicensed derivate work. They illegally downloaded Destiny 2 in violation of the company’s licensing terms and willfully distributed copyright infringing code.

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JD Supra Law

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

AI-generated art isn’t perfect, but it’s become a viable option for license-free set decoration in motion pictures and other commercial productions. Here’s what you need to know. Originally published on Copyright Lately. By: Greenberg Glusker LLP

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IPilogue

MARCH 2, 2023

Orton’s likeness was licensed through defendant WWE to defendant Take-Two Interactive Software, a video game publisher. Tattoo artists currently benefit greatly from lax copyright enforcement – popular subject matter for tattoos includes famous artworks, celebrity portraits, and quotes from books and movies. megastar Randy Orton.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 21, 2025

Opt-out disadvantages small repertoire owners and niche content Of course, the equation is different when the opt-out leads to a licensing deal. The moment individual licensing agreements must be concluded, the issue of transaction costs enters the picture. However, very large numbers of human works are necessary for building GenAI.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Collective Ownership Over Cultural Artwork. Canadian courts have not yet grappled with the issue of collective ownership of Indigenous artwork. However, the wrestler had licensed their likeness to WWE, who in turn licensed it to Take-Two. Their application was granted in 1997. Going Forward. Going Forward.

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Traverse Legal Blog

APRIL 1, 2021

The underlying digital asset is copyright protected and licensed to the buyer of the NFT. Should you hire a lawyer to work with you if you are selling or buying an NFT and licensing the associated digital art? NFTs are being used to store smart contracts and authentication for digital artwork and other digital assets.

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Intepat

DECEMBER 5, 2024

In one notable case, an NFT buyer of a famous digital artwork assumed they had purchased full copyright rights, only to find they could not legally reproduce or profit from the art without the creator’s consent. While NFTs verify the ownership of a digital item, they do not inherently transfer copyright to the buyer.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Equally, where was it getting its music and artwork from to populate its music player? And, indeed, was that licensed in some way, and if so, by whom? Only making matters worse, the artwork in the screenshots posted by Lowery point to what appear to be unauthorized uploads of his music on YouTube.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 1, 2022

‘History Rewritten’ Tarantino is “shockingly” trying to mischaracterize the license agreements by leaving out critical parts, Miramax informs the court. Aside from the screenplay rights disagreement, the NFT sale also used other images and artwork that were directly related to Pulp Fiction.

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The IP Law Blog

MAY 25, 2023

The decision affirms a previous ruling by the Second Circuit, which found that Warhol’s artwork shared the same commercial purpose as the original photograph taken by photographer Lynn Goldsmith. The Andy Warhol Foundation contended that the artworks were transformative and gave new meaning to Goldsmith’s photo.

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The IPKat

JUNE 13, 2022

Digital assets can be protected by IP and have always been capable of being licensed or assigned via a contract, or protected as a trade mark. For example, the owners of the famous “ Grumpy Cat ” meme licensed the use of the name, image and likeness of the cat – and successfully enforced these rights.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

Much like Redbubble, Pixels also has a hand in advertising infringing work, allowing users to search for DeYoung artwork and providing a link to view “all Derek DeYoung products,” despite the fact that many of those products originated from unlicensed third parties. ” UGH.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 19, 2023

Licensing A more common approach for NFT creators and IP rights owners is to implement an NFT license agreement coded into a smart contract or specified in the online marketplace’s terms and conditions ( the middle-ground approach ).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 24, 2024

Is it a proper copyright ownership or an assigned license? In almost every model studied, ownership of outputs was assigned to the user, but in many cases, an extensive license was also granted back to the model provider for coexisting use of the outputs. If output works infringe copyright, who is responsible (e.g. user, service)?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

As a means of cryptographically proving ownership on the blockchain, each NFT has a unique hash, distinguishing it from other copies, as opposed to the non-exclusive license to access the copyrighted material obtained when purchasing an e-book. The preferred form of regulation in the NFT sector is code rather than copyright law.

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IPilogue

MARCH 17, 2023

For example, many indigenous artists have been tricked into exploitive licensing agreements where non-indigenous companies make large profits by selling indigenous art commissioned by indigenous artists for a low price. Other indigenous artists have also spoken about instances where their culture and IP have been appropriated for profit.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 6, 2022

For that, you’d need an assignment or license from the owner of the underlying copyright. The same rule applies to digital artworks sold as NFTs. You Should Probably Read The License. You can also tell your book club that you read it even though you really stopped at page 136. Want to Create New Derivative Works?

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IPilogue

APRIL 11, 2022

He explained that an NFT typically includes only information about the artwork’s location. The actual artwork is not stored within the NFT because storing large amounts of data on a blockchain is fairly expensive. She received a cease-and-desist notice from the photographer Michael Halsband, directing her to destroy the artwork.

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Intepat

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

AI-generated art represents a fusion of human ingenuity in crafting algorithms and the machine’s ability to produce artworks autonomously. Mario Klingemann’s AI Artworks : Mario Klingemann, a well-known AI artist, has produced various AI-generated artworks.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 28, 2021

In addition, it’s alleged that the defendants unlawfully reproduced and displayed the plaintiffs’ artwork on the Ring-1 website, adapted the performance of the games, and reproduced game client files without a license during reverse engineering and similar processes. . § 1201(a)(2)).

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 6, 2024

It is a legal right that belongs to the originators of genuine artworks like literature, drama and music works, cinematographic films as well as sound records. This gives an artist exclusive rights for use, distribution or licensing the creation thus prohibiting others from abusing it without permission. What is Copyright?

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JD Supra Law

MAY 22, 2023

Years later, Goldsmith granted a limited one-time use license for Vanity Fair to use one of her photos of Prince as an “artistic reference for an illustration.” However, Warhol went further and created a series of artwork based on Goldsmith’s photograph. The illustration was Andy Warhol’s portrait of Prince known as “Purple Prince.”

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The IPKat

JUNE 27, 2022

A digital file (an artwork, a song, etc.), While major projects (like BAYC) deploy their own tailor-made smart contract directly in the blockchain, most NFTs are created through the proprietary smart contract of platforms like OpenSea or Foundation. These digital files are freely downloadable by everyone (there is no DRM protection in NFTs).

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Such offer can be made only on marketplaces/platforms for digital asset exchanges that are licensed by the SEC. However, the SEC has not yet permitted the trading of any category of NFTs on the licensed digital asset exchanges SEC Notification concerning Rules, Conditions and Procedures for Operating Digital Asset Business.

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