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Moral Rights in Copyright: Lin-Manuel Miranda sues Texas Church for unauthorized performances of “Hamilton”

IPilogue

The copyright issues that exist in this situation include: unauthorized streaming, unauthorized use of Hamilton content, unauthorized alterations to Hamilton content, and an infringement of an artist’s “moral right” to their copyrighted work. .

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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Such uses, they argue, constitute copyright infringement. Fair Use Precedent? Google Books and Transformative Use The past two decades have seen a wealth of technological developments, but generative AI is qualitatively different from everything that has come before. However, the U.S.

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

The IPKat

Many lament the extractive nature of accessible art outputs, where AI companies train first and ask for forgiveness (fair use) later. 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

2(c), the fair use exemption thereof under Sec. 52(1)(t) and ‘moral rights’ of the author in such work. 52(1)(t); and (ii) if yes, whether the proviso of the same or ‘fixation requirement’ excludes it from the scope of fair use. As a corollary, it also asserted ‘moral rights’ over the mural under Sec.

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First duel between NFTs and copyright before the Spanish courts: NFTs 1 – Authors 0

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Mango, in turn, sustained in its defence that (i) as the rightful owner of the physical Paintings, it was entitled to display them in public, and that (ii) the creation of digital works (i.e. Therefore, the moral right of “disclosure” had already been exhausted. an exploitation that caused them no harm).

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An IP-Centric Approach towards AI Regulation in India- Part II

SpicyIP

Licensing of training datasets The licensing of datasets – for the concerned rights under Sec. Some have argued in favour of fair use, at least in the US context. It has been contended that use of databases should generally be allowed for training, whether the contents of such database are copyrighted or not.

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The Interplay of Personality Rights and Freedom of Expression- the Jackie Shroff’s Case’

IP and Legal Filings

Certain sections like 2(qq) and 38, define a “performer” and specify whether a person’s personality falls under the definition of a performer, under which a performer’s right may be asserted, hence prohibiting the unapproved marketing of a performer’s work. Ammini Amma and Ors.,