IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

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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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

It looks like Jake from State Farm is definitely going to blow through his deductible, as the insurance giant lost its bid to declare game over on a lawsuit brought by video game publisher Atari Interactive. The artwork was observable and in focus for the majority of the ad, which increased its qualitative significance.

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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. Wal-Mart * CaféPress Denied 230 Motion to Dismiss–Curran v.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

There were 18 registered copyrighted works related to the Ogopogo, including books, posters, artwork, videos (in some cases, supposedly of the creature itself) and dramatic works. Thirty years later, in 1984, local author Don Levers wrote a self-published children’s book called “Ogopogo-The Misunderstood Lake Monster”, that sold well.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 9, 2023

The leak was met with excitement by gaming history fans, who discovered unused artwork and an early or alternative storyline. While we haven’t seen a public response to the DMCA notice, a new repository that was published by the same user, shortly after the takedown, is quite telling. That said, Warner Bros.

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JD Supra Law

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Originally published on Copyright Lately. 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. By: Greenberg Glusker LLP

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FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The publisher behind late artist Robert Indiana's "HOPE" image says a rival owes it $10 million for dragging down the artwork's popularity and sales with a purportedly fake copyright assertion on Indiana's iconic "LOVE" image.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 25, 2022

Beyond the obvious attempt to draw a connection between the artwork and the book based a shared sense of the "classical", the artwork also seeks to evoke a more specific connection with the contents of the book. The cover provides the requisite information—title, author, and publisher. You can't judge a book from its cover".

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In early 2019, the company was the first to report in detail on so-called ‘pirate CDNs’, specialist content delivery systems that service huge numbers of pirate streaming sites with tens of thousands of movies and TV shows plus supporting artwork and descriptions. Founder and CEO of Group-IB Arrested.

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Intepat

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

In such cases, ownership may be attributed to the publisher or another designated entity. State of Tamil Nadu (2021) This case involved the unauthorized use of an artwork created by an unknown artist. Uday Prakash (2018) In this landmark case, author Uday Prakash sought to enforce his copyright over works published under a pseudonym.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Genshin Impact publisher Cognosphere PTE Ltd is developing an aggressive stance towards people who leak images of unreleased content online. ” As proof of infringement, Cognosphere provides links to two tweets published by its official Genshin Impact Twitter account.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The NFT art market, that is NFTs which specifically link an artwork or a digital file (a song, for example), have already gone mainstream and, of course, artists and projects owners have asked lawyers to prepare IP licenses to protect their IP. Let alone was it clear how to protect the IP rights in the artwork linked to it.

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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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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

In November 2023, the publisher of hit videogame Genshin Impact obtained a DMCA subpoena at a California district court to unmask an anonymous alleged infringer. However, the unauthorized sharing of copyrighted works does qualify as speech, if only to a degree, so analysis is warranted.

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IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Copyright Office published a decision denying registration of a work created using the generative artificial intelligence (GAI) system, Midjourney, highlighting the complexities such technology is introducing to the U.S. Earlier this week, the Review Board of the U.S. copyright system. The decision issued this week found that Jason M.

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SpicyIP

MAY 18, 2022

A list of trademarks applied for in the EU for ‘ downloadable virtual goods’ and ‘online virtual services’ was recently published by The IPKat here. Hermes has sued a Californian artist, Mason Rothschild, for his “MetaBirkins” digital artworks alleging trademark infringement. Dec 21, 2021.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

New figures published by CharlieIntel predict that free-to-play, action role-playing game Genshin Impact, will have 63 million players in November alone. New DMCA Subpoena Against X/Twitter A new DMCA subpoena application was filed at a California district court on Monday.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 5, 2022

Responding in court, his lawyers pointed out that the director has always retained the right to publish portions of his original handwritten Pulp Fiction screenplay. For example, early artwork featuring Samuel L. Tarantino wholeheartedly disagreed. As such, the lawsuit is characterized as “ offensively meritless.”

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 3, 2024

. “They were arrested in front of the Songkhla Provincial Court, Bo Yang Subdistrict, Mueang Songkhla District, Songkhla Province, for the offense of jointly violating the copyright of others for commercial purposes by publishing creative works such as movies and artworks without permission.”

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 1, 2024

Google is one of those platforms and without the diligence of the Google Search team, at least 150 articles published on TorrentFreak.com would’ve been disappeared over the years due to bogus DMCA notices. On January 20, Google received a takedown demand to deindex from search results an article published just four days earlier.

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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

AI-generated works have won awards: The Crow , an “AI-made” film won the Jury Award at the Cannes Short Film Festival and the story of an AI artwork winning the Colorado State Fair’s annual art competition was reported in The New York Times. AI-generated art was used for magazine covers, including Cosmopolitan and The Economist.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

This week, a controversy involving a famous Hollywood actor damaging one of Banksy’s artworks has taken the news and Aaron Moss, on Copyright Lately, discusses the possibility of Banksy suing the actor based on infringement of his (?) Come with this Kat for a stroll around this week’s posts from IP blogs. moral rights.

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IPilogue

JUNE 30, 2022

Additionally, the defendants were also found to be publishing a magazine with the same name and offering for sale various merchandise using content from the movie, including its title, in the same logo script. The lawsuit was filed in 2001 when the defendants were found to have registered the domain name ‘www.sholay.com’ for its website.

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IPilogue

JULY 18, 2022

It protects the authors’ exclusive rights to reproduce and publish their creations. The purpose of the artwork was to call attention to the power hierarchy and elitism in the art world. There seems to have always been tension between artistic creativity and copyright law. Copyright, in the simplest terms, is “ the right to copy.”

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The IPKat

AUGUST 24, 2021

On 30 September, his new book Restitution: The Return of Cultural Artefacts will be published by Lund Humphries. The book was released this year by Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury, and one does not need to progress deep into the book to appreciate the wisdom behind the revision. This book will help them through.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 23, 2024

For Genshin Impact publisher Cognosphere, pre-release leaks are unacceptable. Cognosphere asserts that leaked, copyright-infringing artwork and game visuals were posted to these accounts and to the best of its knowledge, no DMCA counter-notifications were filed by the operator(s) in response to its initial DMCA takedown notices.

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 31, 2024

Video game publisher Atari Interactive has launched a copyright infringement lawsuit against State Farm, claiming that the insurer improperly appropriated artwork from Atari’s 1983 arcade game “Crystal Castles” for an advertising campaign as part of a “cynical plot” to resonate with fickle millennial and Gen Z consumers.

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Erik K Pelton

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The application was initially approved and published for opposition in June 2022. One example was the November release of the Her Loss album by artists Drake and 21 Savage which included a fake Vogue magazine cover as part of the album artwork, as well as a fake version of Vogue magazine. Last March, Ms.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In 2019, Stephen Thaler submitted a copyright application for his visual artwork, “A Recent Entrance to Paradise,” which stated that an AI computer algorithm, the “Creativity Machine,” created the artistic piece. Perlmutter, et. Any AI-generated content that is more than de minimis should be explicitly excluded from the application.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The lawsuits brought by the owners of such works, including artworks in the case of image-generators and journalism in the NYT case, claim that this should not be allowed. It should profoundly disturb not only authors, artists, and publishers, but also the general public. Such uses, they argue, constitute copyright infringement.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 10, 2022

According to the application, other Roblox developers have been leveraging the success of the above titles by publishing games with the same names using artwork, code and assets from the originals. Muscle Legends was uploaded in September 2018 and it too has been visited more than a billion times.

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Art Law Journal

AUGUST 18, 2022

Laws regarding the use of a person’s likeness, also known as the right of publicity, ensures that a model or other subject of an artwork controls the commercial exploitation of their name, image, or persona. The Model grants to the Publisher or assignees, the irrevocable and unrestricted right to use and publish [TYPE OF ART, (i.e.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 25, 2022

This week marked the 10th anniversary of Google’s important decision to begin publishing DMCA takedown notices sent to the company. Over the last decade, online platforms including Twitter, Wikipedia, Medium and Github joined this transparency movement by submitting their notices to the Lumen Database. So that’s that then?

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Dear Rich IP Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

I am planning a vinyl reissue (with expanded artwork) this year, the songs are in the same order and have been remastered, but the artwork will be slightly different. In order to register a group of published songs as one " unit of publication ," you must meet certain rules. Should I file the SR and PA for the 2005 release?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 10, 2025

While GPT4, which is a module behind ChatGPT, is designed in a way to avoid outputs similar to the training dataset, the Next Rembrandt project was designed to output artworks that are very similar in style to Rembrandt paintings on which it was trained. large publishers, record companies), but reaches individual creators.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 7, 2022

While organizations like CARFAC, SOCAN (Society for Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada) and RAAV (Regroupement des artistes en arts visuels du Québec) are staunch supporters of the artist resale right in Canada, other groups remain hesitant. Not all Canadian galleries oppose ARRs.

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