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U.S. Copyright Office Proposes Rule for Group Registration of Published Two-Dimensional Artwork

JD Supra Law

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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The Battle Lines Over AI Art

Plagiarism Today

As such, this creates questions of authorship and plagiarism when an AI work is published but not properly disclosed to be AI-generated. 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.

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Author of AI-Generated Work Rejected by Copyright Office Says Lack of Protection Has Crushed Him

IP Watchdog

Jason Allen, the author of the two-dimensional digital artwork, titled “Théâtre D’opéra Spatial,” which was rejected by the U.S. Copyright Office published a final decision denying registration of Allen’s work in September 2023. Copyright Office last year, has filed a request for declaratory judgment with the U.S.

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Using AI Artwork to Avoid Copyright Infringement

Copyright Lately

” incident that results in a published court decision, there are dozens of others that are resolved quickly and quietly out of court. Case in point: You may recall the scene in Titanic when Rose shows off a collection of artworks she purchased in Europe. ” However, for every “ Hey, that’s my church picnic quilt!

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When is an artist entitled to refuse attribution of an artwork? Italian Supreme Court provides (final) guidance in long-running dispute over Jeff Koons’s The Serpents

The IPKat

There, it was presented as an original Koons artwork of which three copies exist. Garrone subsequently contacted Koons several times (in 1997, 2007 and 2009) in order to obtain a declaration of authenticity from him and thus sell the artwork. Subsequently, the sculpture was shipped to Italy and held at customs in Milan.

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Alalääkkölä v Palmer: New Zealand Supreme Court confirms copyright is relationship property

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Background As recounted by Lyall (2024) , Finnish artist Sirpa Alalkkl and her husband Paul Palmer, who married in 1997 and separated some 20 years later, disputed the ownership of copyright in artworks she created during the course of their relationship. It addressed these questions as follows. Contractual practice may thus be affected.

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3 Count: Early Christmas

Plagiarism Today

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). First off today, Franklin Graves at IPWatchdog reports that the U.S.