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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

Do these creations belong to the artists or the public domain? Copyright Office denied copyright protection for Kashtanova’s Midjourney-generated artwork, the Office found their work lacked the critical component of a human author. Do creators who use generative AI maintain copyright in their creations? By guest blogger Prof.

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Registering a trade mark even if you think that copyright is for losers? Not bad faith, says (finally) EUIPO BoA

The IPKat

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? Let’s see how the Board reasoned. (Ir)relevance

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AI images shouldn’t be protected

Olartemoure Blog

Kashtanova’s lawyer argued that the work was protectable , since Midjourney was simply a tool to assist in the creation of the work, and the registration must respond to the creative selection, coordination and organization between the images and the text written by the author.

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Who Owns the Copyright in AI-Generated Art?

Intepat

AI-Generated Art: Where Artistry Meets Algorithms Before diving into the intricacies of copyright registration /ownership, let’s set the stage by understanding the birth of AI-generated art. AI-generated art represents a fusion of human ingenuity in crafting algorithms and the machine’s ability to produce artworks autonomously.

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Can AI-generated works be protected by copyright? No, according to US Copyright Office.

CopyrightsWorld

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. ” An Exchange of Letters with the Copyright Office.

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Is it possible to protect AI-generated works with copyright? According to the US Copyright Office, no.

CopyrightsWorld

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. ” An Exchange of Letters with the Copyright Office.

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What Copyright’s “Unclaimable Material” Rules Mean for Hollywood’s Use of AI

Copyright Lately

Howell ruled last Friday that the Register of Copyrights did not act “arbitrarily or capriciously” in denying a copyright registration to Dr. Stephen Thaler for artwork generated entirely by artificial intelligence. Material that is in the public domain. District Court Judge Beryl A.