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AI and IP – to legislate or not? UKIPO’s public consultation seeks evidence

Kluwer Copyright Blog

That call concerned patents, copyright and related rights, designs, trade marks and trade secrets. The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 defines a computer-generated work as a work generated by computer in circumstances such that there is no human author of the work. Option 1: expanding the definition of “inventor”.

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2H 2022 Quick Links, Part 3 (Copyrights and More)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

” However, Wallshoppe does not allege Defendant knew of the specific acts of infringement at issue here—Sienna Lewis selling products featuring the Palm Design on Defendant’s website. Additionally, we note that this Study revealed little demand for additional copyright-related rights for press publishers.

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AI and copyright in 2022

Kluwer Copyright Blog

21, Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000 ), New Zealand ( section 5(2)(a), Copyright Act 1994 ), South Africa (section 2(h), Copyright Act 1978 ) and the UK ( Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, section 9(3) ). Registration was refused in August 2019, in line with previous US case law and guidance.

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AI and IP – A real conversation starter

IP Whiteboard

The consultation covers five key areas of IP – patents, copyright, designs, trade marks and trade secrets. A key question is whether patent law should allow AI to be identified as the sole or joint inventor, and if not, whether this will discourage future inventions being protected by patent (and instead, being kept confidential).

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[Guest post] Litigation commenced against the developers of AI image generation software

The IPKat

The current generation of AI image generation tools such as Stable Diffusion , Midjourney and DALL·E 2 are designed to take a text description or prompt from a user and generate an image that matches the prompt. What is AI image generation software?