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Book Review: Overlapping Intellectual Property Rights (Second Edition)

The IPKat

The fictitious German inventors want to commercialise their invention, yet do not have sufficient funds to seek patent registration. Ochoa authors Chapter 9, which is devoted to the overlaps between copyright and the rights of publicity or personality rights.

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The Jungle Bird, El Diablo, and the Zombie or Machine Learning Models, Computer Programs and Copyright put to the test

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Recent discussions have focused on AI-aided and AI-generated output, concentrating on whether an AI system can be a creator or an inventor (see, among others, here and here ). On the whole, it seems there is no justification for the creation of a sui generis right or ancillary right for the protection of ML models.