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Book review: Copyright in the street. An Oral History of Creative Processes in Street Art and Graffiti Subcultures

The IPKat

As its title suggests, this book focuses on the relationship between US copyright law and street art and graffiti. This book should not be perceived as a classic manual on the application of copyright to these art forms. Chapter 3 is entitled "Copyright within the street art and graffiti circles".

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Is Generative AI Fair Use of Copyright Works? NYT v. OpenAI

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Such uses, they argue, constitute copyright infringement. Fair Use Precedent? Google Books and Transformative Use The past two decades have seen a wealth of technological developments, but generative AI is qualitatively different from everything that has come before.

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Some Thoughts on Five Pending AI Litigations – Avoiding Squirrels and Other AI Distractions

Velocity of Content

I speculated that this was an attempt to avoid a messy fair use dispute. As I also mentioned, Microsoft’s lawyers seem to think that fair use excuses copying for AI purposes everywhere, so I would expect Microsoft to try that defense here, given its lack of other arguments. is being used as code.

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Journey Through “Novembers” on SpicyIP (2005 – Present)

SpicyIP

With further ado, here’s what I found in Novembers: Database Protection in India: Since Prof Basheer’s 2005 post about the inaccurate implication of the theft of data as copyright infringement, to 2023, not much seems to have changed. Speaking of late movie stars, one may wonder about the posthumous enforcement of celebrity rights.

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Derivative works: the Adventures of Koons and Tintin in French copyright law

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Three interesting cases on derivative works, two involving Jeff Koons and one Tintin, have recently put French copyright law in the international spotlight (e.g. a remake or an adaptation of a book into a film). here and here ). A composite work is therefore a derivative work, i.e. simple incorporations (e.g.

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The Modern Copyright Dilemma: Digital Content Ownership and Access

IP and Legal Filings

The crux of this debate is the argument that if the theft of restricted digital content is for the purpose of knowledge and research, it should be considered as an act done under ‘fair use’ and ‘fair dealing’ of the content. It is obvious from the early statutes that copyright protection was initially solely extended to books.

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Synthetic Singers and Voice Theft: BomHC protects Arijit Singh’s Personality Rights [PART II]

SpicyIP

While for the time being the BomHC has ordered various entities to remove content that violates Singh’s personality rights, the larger matter of the personality and moral rights of the singer being infringed remains unresolved, with the case scheduled for September 2.