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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2023/09/us-copyright-office-and-ai-notice-of.html On 30 August 2023, the US Copyright Office (USCO) issued a notice of inquiry (NOI) on the Federal Register, seeking factual information and views on several issues related to the intersection of copyright law and recent advances in generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), including the use of copyrighted works... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2023/09/guest-post-deepfake-it-till-you-make-it.html The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following contribution by Danish Katfriends Jakob Plesner Mathiasen and Thit Nymand Nisbeth (both Gorrissen Federspiel) on the interplay between AI, deepfakes, and personality rights in the form of image/publicity rights. Here’s what they write: Deepfake it till you make... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2023/09/when-individual-trade-mark-is-not.html EU trade mark law knows three kinds of trade marks: individual marks, collective marks (Art. 74 EUTMR) and certification marks (Art. 83 EUTMR): An individual trade mark distinguishes the goods and services offered under the mark from those of other undertakings. A collective mark distinguishes the goods and services... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2023/09/ballad-in-mall-violence-of-scene-does.html A Kat thinking about synchronisation The past few years have been marked by major copyright disputes involving musical works [IPKat here, here or here]. A recent ruling of the Paris Court of First Instance (Tribunal judiciaire) provides a further illustration. This time the dispute focused on the impact on... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2023/09/euipo-fifth-board-of-appeal-rules-out.html Pursuant to Article 58(1)(a) of Regulation 2017/1001 (EUTMR), a trade mark which has not been put to genuine use by its holder within five years after its registration may be liable to revocation unless there are valid reasons for its non-use. When considering spare parts in connection with genuine... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2023/09/wish-to-discuss-legacy-of-cjeu.html UCL in lovely Bloomsbury If you are interested in all things copyright and wish to discuss the (perduring) legacy of the copyright case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union for UK law and practice following Brexit, then you are warmly invited to join this panel... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2023/09/guest-post-burberry-knight-blue-and.html The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following guest post authored by Katfriends Antonios Baris and Spyridon Sipetas (both Stockholm University), reflecting on the IP implications of the recent unveiling, by Burberry and Gucci, of two new signature colours: Knight Blue and Rosso Ancora, respectively. Here’s... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2023/09/guest-book-book-review-intellectual.html This book review of Intellectual Property Law in Nigeria: Emerging Trends, Theories And Practice by Desmond Oriakhogba (University of the Western Cape, South Africa) and Ifeoluwa Olubiyi (Afe Babaloloa University, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria) is kindly provided by Kasim Waziri, Professor of Law at the University of Abuja, Nigeria. Here is... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2023/09/guest-post-artificial-intelligence-and.html The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following guest contribution by Katfriend Jakub Wyczik (University of Silesia in Katowice) on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the application of copyright subsistence criteria. Here’s what Jakub writes: Artificial Intelligence and (hopefully) the death of copyright by Jakub Wyczik* Last year,... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2023/09/hague-court-provides-first-judgment-on.html In a recent judgment, the District Court of the Hague (the Court) found that Fruugo, an online marketplace, was not directly liable under trade mark law for the advertisement and sale, on its platform, of products which infringed the trade marks of Audi and Volswagen. Background The avid IPKat... Continue reading
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