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[Guest post] ‘Ghiblification’ and the Moral Wrongs of U.S. Copyright Law

The IPKat

Here's what Angela writes: Ghiblification and the Moral Wrongs of U.S. Copyright Law by Angela Chung Do everything by hand, even when using the computer. The Visual Artists Rights Act (VARA) provides some moral rights: non-economic rights personal to the author of a work.

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St. Art Foundation v. Acko General Insurance: Decoding Street Art, Fair use and Moral rights

SpicyIP

Acko General Insurance , the Delhi High Court is faced with the opportunity to elaborate whether and how street art in general is subject to the Copyright Act, the scope of ‘artistic work’ under Sec. 52(1)(t) and ‘moral rights’ of the author in such work. 2(c)(i), and, thus, copyrightable under sec. 57 of the Act.

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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In this regard, an important precedent lies in the history of US litigation involving Google Books. As such, it was permissible under United States copyright law. copyright law. These criteria are found in section 107 of the Copyright Act. But he eventually reversed his own position.

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Copyright Liability for LLM Outputs

Velocity of Content

1 Another key right is the creation of derivative works, which includes adaptations or translations. 3 This action would violate the right to translate, which is a specific aspect of the broader right to create derivative works. 13 Other arguments to limit the reach of the right exist. See 17 U.S.C. § 17 U.S.C. §

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

Velocity of Content

Regardless, as of this writing there are now five cases that may provide some clarity on this less frequently discussed but foundational issue of the unauthorized use of copyrighted materials as training data for AI (I use “AI” here as a shorthand which also includes text and data mining and machine learning). This will be hard to defend.

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When is a derivative work original and thus protectable by copyright? Classicist’s critical edition makes its way to Luxembourg in fresh Romanian CJEU referral

The IPKat

The book that is going to change copyright law? After the referrals in Mio [IPKat here and here ] and USM Haller [IPKat here ] , another referral asking about the meaning of originality in EU copyright law has been made to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU): it is the referral from Romania in Institutul G.

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Australian Judge Rules Inventions Developed by Artificial Intelligence Can Qualify for Patent Protection

The IP Law Blog

In other words, there is no specific aspect of patent law, unlike copyright law involving the requirement for a human author or the existence of moral rights, that would drive a construction of the Act as excluding non-human inventors.