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Court Says No Human Author, No Copyright (but Human Authorship of GenAI Outputs Remains Uncertain) (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

district court granted summary judgment for the Copyright Office in Thaler v. 18, 2023), affirming the Copyright Office’s position that “a work generated entirely by an artificial system absent human involvement [is not] eligible for copyright.” The Copyright Act neither defines “authorship” nor “works of authorship.”

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‘Google Zero’: Incentives & Remuneration in a New Era of ‘Agentic’ Copyright

Kluwer Copyright Blog

What happens to information created by online newspapers, magazines, and bloggers if Google does not provide links to their content? What will “Google Zero” mean to online audience traffic flows (specifically, blogs and podcasts)? Would there be any incentives to create original content?

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Instagram and Facebook Users Are Engaging in Copyright Infringement?!

IPilogue

If you have ever incorporated music into your Instagram or Facebook videos, you may have committed copyright infringement. In the official pleading , they argued that Meta violated the US Copyright Act 17 USC § 501 for direct, induced, and contributory copyright infringement. Raenelle Manning is an IPilogue Writer and 2L J.D

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Copyright and Artificial Intelligence in Music Creation

IP and Legal Filings

Some might argue that it’s the person who’s actually creating the music using AI, while others would say that the person feeding the relevant data to the AI is the owner of said music, as it’s their original content that the aforementioned later assembled. When it comes to songs, copyright gets pretty interesting.

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Does IP Law Protect Influencers’ Aesthetics?–Gifford v. Sheil (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

But the suit, in which 24-year-old influencer Sydney Nicole Gifford accuses another influencer, 22-year-old Alyssa Sheil, of copying both her posts and her style, may have an outsized effect on the law around online content creation. On first read, I thought the suit was a stretch, and Im not the only one.

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The Other ‘Maybe’ Authors: Copyright Ownership for AI Trainers

IP Intelligence

Although the Copyright Office’s official guidance on whether you can be the author of AI output is a solid “maybe? Consistent with the Copyright Office’s guidance in the Compendium, Third Edition, there is often “creative input or intervention from a human author” at multiple steps in the process. This creates a major problem.

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OTT Platforms and Digital Piracy

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Notwithstanding the fact that these platforms have now become part and parcel of the lives of the vast majority, instances of accessing the exclusive contents of these platforms without authorization are also on the rise. Unauthorized usage, storage and sharing of unsolicited copyrighted content is a threat to human creativity.