Tag: Copyright
US judge rules in favor of human ingenuity, denies copyright for AI art
In a recent court decision, United States District Judge Beryl Howell upheld the stance of the U.S. Copyright Office that artworks created solely by a [...]
Craig Wright Will Be Able to Fight Bitcoin Copyright Claim in UK After Winning Appeal
Whether Wright is indeed Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto will be determined at a trial slated to begin in January 2024. In a case heard in Oslo last [...]
Sarah Silverman sues Meta and OpenAI for copyright violations
The American comedian and author Sarah Silverman, along with two other authors Richard Kadrey and Christopher Golden, have filed lawsuits against Meta [...]
What is fair use? US Supreme Court weighs in on AI’s copyright dilemma
Generative artificial intelligence models such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT are trained by being fed giant amounts of data, but what happens when this data is [...]
Here’s what you need to know
Musician Ed Sheeran was in court this week to deny claims that his 2014 song "Thinking Out Loud" is a copy of Marvin Gaye's 1973 classic "Let's Get it [...]
Judge Rules Bored Ape Yacht Club Ripoff NFTs Violated Yuga Copyright
Use of BAYC trademarks by Ripps’ RR/BAYC was intended to confuse consumers, a U.S. judge in California has ruled
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Craig Wright Loses Bitcoin Copyright Claim in UK Court
“It remains the case that no relevant 'work' has been identified containing content which defines the structure of the Bitcoin File Format,” though Wr [...]
Bored Ape Yacht Club on an Ongoing Lawsuit on NFT’s Copyright
In addition to the current lawsuit filed against Bored Ape Yacht Club and various celebrities about promoting BAYC NFTs, it appears that the famous Yu [...]
‘Dancing’ Through Copyright Issues With NFTs
Fortnite, the popular multiplayer online game created by Epic Games, is as known today for its dances, called Emotes, as it is for its free-to-play mu [...]
U.S. trademark and copyright offices to study IP impact of NFTs
As nonfungible tokens (NFTs) continue to garner interest, the United States Patent and Trademark Office and U.S. Copyright Office are set to launch a [...]
Should You Copyright Your NFTs?
For example, I could mint a new NFT with any CC0 Noun, but because everyone knows the “original” collection, the one endorsed by the creator(s), mine [...]
Paramount sued over ‘Top Gun’ copyright as ‘Maverick’ soars at box office
Tom Cruise in "Top Gun: Maverick"Source: ParamountTom Cruise's "Top Gun: Maverick" had another blockbuster weekend at the box office, but the studio b [...]
Supreme Court to Hear Copyright Fight Over Andy Warhol’s Images of Prince
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide whether Andy Warhol violated the copyright law by drawing on a photograph for a series of im [...]
CryptoPunks community reacts to the ongoing copyright battle between v1 and v2
During its initial release, 10,000 CryptoPunks were sold and made it to the secondary market before users discovered a critical smart contract exploit [...]
Crypto DAO spends €2.66M on Jodorowsky’s Dune thinking they would own its copyright, receives mass ridicule on Twitter
Late Saturday, Spice DAO, a decentralized autonomous organization that owns a copy of an unpublished manuscript of Frank Herbert and Alejandro Jodorow [...]