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Thaler, Copyright Office Fight Over Human-Authorship Requirement for AI-Created Artwork Continues

IP Watchdog

Copyright Office’s refusal to register copyright to an artwork generated by Thaler’s Creativity Machine. Copyright Act preventing Thaler from claiming copyright in the AI-generated work, and that standard principles of property law enables ownership of the work to vest in Thaler, who created the AI system at issue in the case.

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“Well frens, it happened to me;” Actor’s Stolen NFTs Highlight Uncertainties for NFT Artwork

JD Supra Law

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. Evil’s son in the Austin Powers franchise, announced on Twitter last month that phishers stole his four “Bored Ape” NFTs.

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Traditional Tattoos on the Red Carpet: Continuing the Conversation of Collective Ownership

IPilogue

These events point to two prevalent issues within the current legal framework: First, that current intellectual property laws do not properly acknowledge collective ownership over shared culture within Indigenous communities and second, whether tattoo designs have the potential to be protected through copyright laws. Of note, in DRG Inc.

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Thaler Loses AI-Authorship Fight at U.S. Copyright Office

IP Watchdog

Copyright Office (USCO) denying registration of a two-dimensional artwork generated by Creativity Machine, an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm created by Dr. Stephen Thaler. In an opinion letter dated February 14, 2022, the Review Board of the United States Copyright Office (Review Board) affirmed a decision of the U.S.

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Ownership Claim Over NFT Sotheby's Sold For $1.5M Tossed

IP Law 360

A New York federal judge dismissed a Canadian entity's lawsuit claiming to own Quantum, a digital artwork certified by a non-fungible token that Sotheby's sold for $1.47 million, saying on Friday it appeared the litigation is an "attempt to exploit open questions of ownership in the still-developing NFT field."

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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. Copyright Office’s decision to deny Kashtanova copyright registration in their AI-generated art places artists’ rights to ownership of their works in question.

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Will NFT Piracy Compel Changes to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act?

JD Supra Law

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

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