(Podcast) The Briefing: Writers, Actors, AI: The AI Centric Changes to the WGA and SAG Agreements
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Podcast: The Briefing by the IP Law Blog - Copyright Office Goes After Registration Issued to AI-Created Graphic Novel
The Briefing by the IP Law Blog: Copyright Office Goes After Registration Issued to AI-Created Graphic Novel
The Guidance states that the Copyright Office’s long-standing position is that human authorship is required for a work to be copyrightable and eligible for registration. Nevertheless, the Guidance provides that works created...more
The threshold issue of human authorship as a prerequisite for obtaining copyright registration at the US Copyright Office is currently being litigated in federal court in the District of Columbia. In August 2023, the US...more
On February 15, 2024, the United States Copyright Office published a notice of proposed rulemaking, proposing to create a new group registration option for published two-dimensional artwork. Currently, the Copyright Office...more
Copyright Office Rejects Application for AI-Generated Work Based on a Photograph -- On December 11, 2023, the Review Board of the United States Copyright Office (Board) rejected a Second Request for reconsideration with...more
There’s a lot happening in the world of AI. To help you stay on top of the latest news, we have compiled a roundup of the developments we are following. The Beijing Internet Court has ruled that a plaintiff who used...more
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the hottest topics in technology, with businesses studying how to utilize its benefits and at least some workers wondering if smarter and cheaper AI technologies will replace them. Here...more
Lately, we are witnessing an uptrend in the discourse over the interfaces between artificial intelligence systems, particularly text and image generators, and intellectual property law, specifically as pertains to copyrights....more
The United States Copyright Office, like other government agencies and private-sector entities, is reckoning with the implications of artificial intelligence. In February, the Office canceled an artist’s copyright...more
The US Copyright Office (USCO) issued a policy statement on March 16, 2023, clarifying its position on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in copyrighted materials. This statement came in the wake of the USCO’s recent...more
Background on Kashtanova’s Comic Book - Digital artist Kris Kashtanova registered Zarya of the Dawn, a comic book with dazzling and dystopian imagery generated via Midjourney’s text-to-image AI model, with the U.S....more
White & Case Tech Newsflash As we recently discussed, the rapid pace of development and adoption of artificial intelligence ("AI") technology, especially generative AI, has led to numerous questions for intellectual property...more
There have been two important developments in recent weeks regarding the U.S. Copyright Office’s position on registering works created by the use of artificial intelligence (AI) technology. First, on February 21, 2023, the...more
The expanding use of artificial intelligence (AI) programs to create content has, not surprisingly, resulted in attempts to register copyrights in AI-generated works. The Copyright Office has formally rejected two such...more
Just Because it’s Published Doesn’t Mean it’s in the Public Domain - Some people think that if something is on the Internet, it’s in the public domain and is fair game to be copied. Not true! Giving the public access to an...more
In 1884, the Supreme Court upended the view that reproductions made by a machine could not qualify for copyright protection. The Court held that a “machine-made” image, meaning a photograph, titled Oscar Wilde, No. 18....more
Thank you for reading the March 2022 issue of Sterne Kessler's MarkIt to Market® newsletter. This month, we discuss copyright registration eligibility in relation to non-human authorship and new legislation surrounding...more
Copyrights are a bundle of legal rights belonging to the owner of an original work of authorship. Federal statutes provide that copyright protection subsists in “original works of authorship” that are fixed in any tangible...more
As a fan of modern art, I am looking forward to the dinner reception at next week’s Annual Meeting of the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO), which will be held at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. As a member of...more
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) recently filed a copyright infringement lawsuit on behalf of a crested macaque monkey, who famously snapped a smiling selfie of himself using wildlife photographer David...more