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IP in the Fashion Industry
October 12th, 2023
After enduring years of pandemic-related restrictions, lockdowns, layoffs, and uncertainty, nations across the globe are gradually reopening. Employees return to their offices as restrictions ease, and consumers seek new products to embrace a post-pa…
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Does using art to train AI violate copyright law?
October 3rd, 2023
We’ve previously discussed the uproar over copyrighted works being used to train artificial intelligence (AI) tools to create “new” works using generative AI software like ChatGPT. Reuters reports that a group of artists sued Stability AI, Midj…
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AI Training Models and Website Terms of Use
September 19th, 2023
We’ve been writing about artificial intelligence (AI) a lot recently, and for good reason. AI technology is improving rapidly–especially in generative AI (GAI) – and influencing everything from venture capital investments to Hollywood strikes t…
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Trademark Board Finds Building Designs Can Be Protected as Trade Dress
August 22nd, 2023
The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) has ruled that building designs can potentially be protected as trade dress. As Nolo explains, Trade dress is the overall appearance or total feel of a particular product or service. It consists of all the…
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Federal Circuit Affirms Patent Win for Netflix
August 15th, 2023
The Federal Circuit has issued a non-precedential ruling affirming a decision by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) that claims in a Broadcom patent related to video-on-demand technology were unpatentable. The Broadcom patents at issue were cha…
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Adobe Releases “Infringement-Free” AI Image Generator
August 2nd, 2023
Adobe recently released an AI image generator that it claims won’t infringe third-party intellectual property (IP) rights. The new generative AI tool is called Abobe Firefly and it’s in beta for enterprise in Adobe Creative Cloud and Adobe Expres…
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Copyright Office Offers New Guidance on AI
July 25th, 2023
In June, the US Copyright Office hosted an online event focusing on the registration of works containing generative artificial intelligence (GAI) content. We previously wrote in this blog about how a comic book creator sought and initially received c…
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US Copyright Office Launches AI Initiative
June 21st, 2023
The US Copyright Office has announced the launch of a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) Initiative. As the Office notes, This initiative is in direct response to the recent striking advances in generative AI technologies and their rapidly growing use…
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Copyright Office Denies Protection for AI-Generated Images
June 13th, 2023
The US Copyright Office has cancelled an attempt to register images created using an artificial intelligence (AI) tool. In 2022, Kristina Kashtanova sought and received copyright registration for an 18-page comic book titled Zarya of the Dawn. On the…
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Removing copyright information doesn’t necessarily violate DMCA
The 11th Circuit has ruled that merely removing copyright management information (CMI) from photos doesn’t necessarily violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The case is VICTOR ELIAS PHOTOGRAPHY, LLC, v. ICE PORTAL, INC. Victor Elias…
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