The Briefing by the IP Law Blog: Copyright Office Issues Guidance for Works Containing Material Generated by AI
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
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Podcast: The Briefing by the IP Law Blog - Copyright Office Rejects Application for A.I. Created Art Work
The Briefing by the IP Law Blog: Copyright Office Rejects Application for A.I. Created Art Work
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The Briefing from the IP Law Blog – DMCA: The Right to Repair and More new Exemptions
Key takeaways from the US Copyright Office’s Copyrightability Report and the DC Circuit’s March 2025 Thaler decision - On January 29, 2025, the US Copyright Office issued Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, Part 2:...more
On January 29, 2025, the U.S. Copyright Office issued part two of it's report on Artificial Intelligence ("AI") which addresses the topic of “copyrightability” as it relates to AI. This report follows an extensive initiative...more
In a long-anticipated report from the U.S. Copyright Office providing guidance on the copyrightability of works created by and/or with the assistance of Artificial Intelligence, the Office reaffirmed its previous guidance...more
The end of December, especially before a change in administration and a new Congress in January, is a slow time in Washington, DC, but this week, we highlight the few recent AI developments that have come out of our nation’s...more
In April 2024, we published a summary of the then current state of artificial intelligence (“AI”)-related copyright litigation. Since that publication, new theories for complaints and defenses have emerged in this space. As...more
Want to learn more about drafting, negotiating, and understanding intellectual property and technology contracts and have 10 minutes to spare? Grab your morning coffee or afternoon tea and dig into our Tech Contract Quick...more
On December 11, the Review Board of the U.S. Copyright Office affirmed the refusal to register yet another AI-generated work. The decision follows the Office’s refusal to register Dr. Stephen Thaler’s A Recent Entrance to...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
In a decision issued November 27, 2023, a Chinese court ruled that AI-generated content can enjoy protection under copyright law. The finding, the first of its kind in China, is in direct conflict with the human authorship...more
Welcome to this week's issue of AI: The Washington Report, a joint undertaking of Mintz and its government affairs affiliate, ML Strategies. The accelerating advances in artificial intelligence (“AI”) and the practical,...more
You are likely already familiar with two US recent decisions that have addressed the copyrightability of AI-generated works: (a) On August 18, 2023, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled in...more
On August 18, 2023, in Thaler v. Perlmutter, Judge Beryl A. Howell of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted the U.S. Copyright Office's motion for summary judgment, affirming the Copyright Office's...more
On February 21, 2023, the Copyright Office eclipsed its prior decisions in the area of AI authorship when it partially cancelled Kristina Kashtanova’s registration for a comic book titled Zarya of the Dawn. In doing so, the...more