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Moral Rights Case Ends in Settlement

BYU Copyright Blog

According to Mason's Complaint, these changes violated her rights under the Visual Artist Rights Act ("VARA"), a legal provision that incorporates artists' moral rights to preserve the integrity of their creations into United States copyright law, although in a limited manner.

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Book Review: The Artificial Inventor - A Challenge for the Patent System

The IPKat

Approaching the concepts of author and inventor, Sánchez García prefers to adopt a new concept, the ‘Artificial Inventor’ as the “thing that produces effects”, capable of “influencing society with quantifiable and attributable effects” even if it cannot enjoy moral rights (p.121).

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Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property In India

IP and Legal Filings

As per the definition of author under the Copyright Act, any person who causes work to be generated by consumers is considered to be the actual author. Therefore, under this definition, the person who created the prompt for the AI shall be given the title of the owner.

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Fleshing out the copyright in a tattoo

IP Whiteboard

What about moral rights? While the definition of “artistic work” does not expressly include tattoos, and there are no Australian cases on the point, there doesn’t seem to be a reason that a tattoo couldn’t receive copyright protection as a drawing, painting or potentially a work of ‘artistic craftsmanship’.

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Nigeria amends its Copyright Act to ratify outstanding copyright treaties and address other issues

The IPKat

This aligns with (but is not similar to) the definition of "audiovisual fixation" and 'audiovisual work' in Article 2 of the Beijing Treaty a nd proposed section 1(1) of South Africa's Copyright Amendment Bill , respectively. See the definition of “beneficiary person” in section 26(7)(d).

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Copyright implications of Augmented Reality for cultural goods – Part 1

Kluwer Copyright Blog

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. When copyright is involved, both economic and moral rights issues are at stake.

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Around the IP Blogs

The IPKat

The annual review covers topics such as the definition of a work, authorship and moral rights. Jan Bernd Nordemann, via the Kluwer Copyright Blog , offers an interesting annual review of the copyright case-law of the German Bundesgerichtshof. The review is published in 4 different parts!