Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 22, 2022

The report complements the analysis of laws with a review of practices and contractual arrangements of claiming and attributing authorship and/or ownership by actors in the field of AI music creation. This approach maps well to the basic definition of AI systems used in our analysis, particularly to machine learning systems.

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Music Copyright Derivative Work Ownership 63

Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 7, 2023

Thus, guided by the principle of equality, copyright operates as a spectrum of creativity, where the level of protection granted to a work corresponds to its level of originality. [2] 2] At one end of the spectrum, we find plagiarism: a completely derivative work that fails to contribute any creative elements to the original piece.

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Copyright Derivative Work Fair Use Copyright Law 52

The IPKat

JUNE 27, 2022

Consequently, the definition of NFTs as “certificate of authenticity” or “certificate of ownership” is not accurate. Yuga Labs, therefore, still owns the copyright in each NFT. All this implies the idea that, in the world of NFTs, the IP rights in the digital file are of secondary importance if not outright meaningless.

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Non-Fungible Tokens Contracts Copying Art 135

Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Miramax claims, among other things, that the preparation and sale of these derivative works constitutes copyright infringement because the contractual rights Tarantino reserved in his 1993 agreement with Miramax don’t cover NFTs. Again, NFTs are just an ownership record and a link to content. NFTs Are Not Copyrightable.

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Copying Non-Fungible Tokens Contracts Copyright 126

Velocity of Content

MARCH 16, 2023

After all, while we are pondering the weighty issue of future ownership, we are not focusing on the fundamental issue of wholesale copying of works to train AI in a wide variety of situations. This, of course, could be an accident based on true intellectual curiosity, but I do not believe it.

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Litigation Fair Use Copying Derivative Work 98

IIPRD

APRIL 8, 2024

This article delves into the ongoing debate around the issue of right of ownership of copyright by AI generators for their novel artwork. Stability AI, three artists filed a claim on the basis that their work was used by the AI to train the algorithm and use them in a transformative manner to create new work. [5]

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Art Artwork Intellectual Property Copyright Law 52

Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

At the same time, AR may be a catalyst for boosting the ecosystem surrounding bodies managing cultural heritage, because an attractive cultural site with entertainment features can definitely have an impact on the local tourism-related industry. Thus, ownership of such rights is crucial for exploitation purposes.

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Copyright Public Domain Art Moral Rights 101

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 17, 2023

According to the complaint, these separate entities are just one big data-sharing family, leveraging their combined resources in non-standard ways such as Microsoft sharing hardware and cloud infrastructure resources in exchange for an ownership interest in OpenAI. Complaint at 31. Plaintiffs attach each of these licenses to the complaint.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 9, 2023

Does such an output infringe on a copyrighted work of a third party, especially those works “ingested” during the training stage of the AI system? Under US law, is the output a “ derivative work ” of the “ingested” copyrighted works? The Copyright – AI Act interface The first aspect to mention regards definitions.

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Copyright Copyright Law Fair Use Law 135

SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Hulm asserted ownership of copyright on the app on the basis of a copyright registration of a literary concept note detailing the working of its app, arguing that the app is an adaptation of the literary concept note.

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Copyright Marketing Marketing Copying 59

43(B)log

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

In 1963, Disney expressed skepticism about monopoly aspects of extended term and “expressed doubt that Congress would approve a longer ownership period.” They definitely donated to many committee members but not unusually so. Rosen, Fog and Fiction and Copyright Term Extension aka Who Framed Mickey Mouse? Why are they being awarded?

Copyright 59

Copyright Copying Music Fair Use 59

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The Kremen case involved the alleged theft of the sex.com domain name by improperly modifying the electronic records evidencing ownership of the domain name. Website owners can prevent the unauthorized reassignment of their ownership interests, such as someone trying to modify their copyright registration records.

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Licensing Copyright Contracts Advertising 97

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Based solely on the complaint that was filed, there are six major issues raised by the case: First, were the recorded interviews a copyright-eligible “work of authorship”? Third, is Trump’s claim of ownership barred by 17 U.S.C. 105 , as a “work of the United States Government”?

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 6, 2023

The company also asserts copyright ownership in two “director’s statements” written by Coakley about the alleged on-set bullying, as well as in Coakley’s planned derivative project about the making of Runt. Copyright Office, claiming ownership through a written agreement with Coakley.

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Copyright Derivative Work Fair Use Social Media 80

43(B)log

AUGUST 11, 2022

common ownership are reciprocal. And it’s not really joint ownership in the real property sense b/c there is always a way out of joint ownership—severance to turn it into tenancy in common, which limits the costs that holdout joint owners can impose on each other. Also: what about derivative works?

Music 56

Music Copyright Ownership Derivative Work 56

LexBlog IP

JANUARY 10, 2024

That then plays off the rest of the title’s allusions to separating “subjects” from the “predicates” of copyright ownership, themselves words connoting the foundational elements of both “ any complete sentence ” and at times a court’s jurisdiction over infringement matters. ’” Id.

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