#intellectual-property — Public Fediverse posts

Ikea wins right to launch legal action against Belgian far-right party
By Rob Davies

EU’s highest court allows Swedish furniture firm to begin proceedings after Vlaams Belang used its trademarks in immigration campaign

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/sep/08/ikea-wins-right-to-launch-legal-action-vlaams-belang-eu

#Ikea #CourtofjusticeoftheEuropeanUnion #EuropeanUnion #Intellectualproperty #Law #Business #Europe #Retailindustry #Worldnews #Interiors #Sweden #Thefarright #Belgium #TheGuardian #RobDavies

Engadget: New Twitter rebrands to Tweet.app after court’s double-edged ruling . “The Tweet.app website is currently live, but is still only accepting waitlist applicants for its upcoming social media platform. According to TechCrunch, more than 172,000 have already signed up and requested a handle, which costs $20 to reserve.”

ABC News: White House launches Arcade.gov with computer game that lets players ‘deport’ migrants. “The White House announced the launch of what it called “Arcade.gov,” a website of five versions of classic computer games promoting the president’s agenda. The games include ‘Flappy Bill,’ ‘Build the Wall,’ ‘Rio Run,’ ‘Supply Line’ and ‘Trump Savings Tycoon.’ One of the games, ‘Rio Run,’ a […]

TechCrunch: Judge blocks X rival from using Twitter name, but allows ‘Tweet’ for now. “The story of the Virginia-based startup isn’t really about building something unique; it’s about a company trying to get its hands on abandoned trademarks that X relinquished. Even the homepage for the company clearly states its purpose is to go back and pick up what Elon Musk dropped when he renamed […]

‘Attribution decay’ complicates the picture of AI-generated images, scientists find – The Art Newspaper

Art generated with artificial intelligence (AI) relies on models trained on billions of images. That training has been…
#NewsBeep #News #Technology #Art&Technology #Artificialintelligence #CA #Canada #Intellectualproperty
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/883519/

Engadget: A decade’s worth of Steam files totaling more than 12TB has leaked . “A treasure trove of Steam data has been leaked, which seemingly contains everything that was published on Steam between 2003 and 2013. The leak totals more than 12TB in scale and includes beta builds and completely finished games from Valve’s own franchises, including Half-Life, Left 4 Dead and Portal.”

Für Forschende und Gründungsteams ist Intellectual Property ( #ip ) oft ein komplexes Thema – zugleich spielt es für Transfer, Gründung und Skalierung eine entscheidende Rolle: IP bildet die Grundlage für Wettbewerbsvorteile und Marktzugang.

🔎 Doch wo anfangen beim Thema IP? Unser Artikel gibt Orientierung für die ersten Schritte – und unterstützt damit den Weg von wissenschaftlichen Ideen in die Anwendung.

https://www.joachim-herz-stiftung.de/storys/intellectual-property-von-anfang-an#c17414

#intellectualproperty #copyright #forschung

Stereogum: Jason Isbell, David Lowery, & More Sue Suno For Violating Rights Of Publicity. “Everyone hates Suno, except Mary J. Blige for some reason. Jason Isbell, David Lowery, and more musicians are now suing the AI music platform. The legal complaint was filed on Monday (Aug. 31). The class action lawsuit emphasizes that its claims don’t depend on copyright infringement, but that Sono’s […]

PBS News Hour: Descendants of enslaved potter David Drake work to reclaim ancestor’s art. “The descendants David Drake, known as Dave the Potter, have traced their lineage back to the once-enslaved potter and launched an effort to reclaim his work. So far, the family has recovered six pieces of Drake’s highly valued glazed stoneware, and they’re working with museums to bring even more back into […]

Los Angeles Times: Hollywood studios have sued over AI. Now Google is courting them to use its tools. “Google executives have approached representatives at Disney, Universal, Warner Bros. Discovery and other studios about licensing intellectual property to be used in AI models, according to three people familiar with the conversations who were not authorized to speak publicly about them. […]

AI engineers have too often thought of whether or not they *can* do something, and not if they *should*.

#knowledge #trust #talent #epidemic #climate #copyright #intellectualproperty #noai

Music Business Worldwide: Now Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic in multi-billion dollar lawsuit: ‘One of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history.’. “Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music have joined forces to sue Anthropic, home of Claude, over what the publishers call ‘one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts […]

Canadian Press: ‘It’s high-tech theft’: As AI music booms, Canadian artists demand consent, transparency and pay. “Cadence Weapon never gave artificial intelligence permission to learn from his music. But the Edmonton-raised rapper, born Rollie Pemberton, says he recently found 129 of his songs in datasets used to train AI music generators. He was alarmed, but not surprised. To Pemberton, […]

Heise Online: The German Bundestag has copyright problems. “Suddenly, a part of the Bundestag’s history is missing: Since April, the online archive for the years 2005 to 2016 is no longer available on the Bundestag website. Content ranging from consultation processes to parliamentary biographies has disappeared: the so-called web archive, with which the content of the respective legislative […]

Courthouse News Service: Fifth Circuit sides with news aggregator in copyright battle. “News aggregator NewsBreak prevailed Thursday in a copyright dispute with a publisher who took issue with embedded news articles displayed on NewBreak’s app. Emmerich Newspapers, which publishes local newspapers across Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas, had challenged a lower court’s decision that […]

Ars Technica: New Twitter launches, says Musk’s X gave up the name. “Operation Bluebird, the Virginia-based startup trying to revive the allegedly abandoned ‘Twitter’ name and logo, announced Monday that it has launched its new social media network: Twitter.now.”

Nicola Coughlan and Matt Lucas among stars backing campaign against AI voice cloning https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/28/stars-back-campaign-against-ai-voice-cloning-nicola-coughlan-matt-lucas #AiArtificialIntelligence #NicolaCoughlan #Film #Technology #HughBonneville #MattLucas #WorldNews #Culture #Television #TelevisionRadio #AndyBurnham #Politics #Law #IntellectualProperty #Computing #UkNews

TorrentFreak: Anna’s Archive Owes $340 Million, Lost Several Domains, but It’s Still Online. “When Anna’s Archive suffered widespread downtime earlier this month, many users feared a legal crackdown. Instead, the site was reportedly targeted by a coordinated assault on its network infrastructure. Just as it did after facing $340 million in damages and losing several domains earlier this […]

The Biggest Theft In History

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5whcBQ5xVI

#history #andrewism #philosophy #ethics #property #slavery #enclosure #anarchy #colonialism #anarchist #capitalism #monopoly #anarchism #Proudhon #intellectualproperty #socialcontract

Japan has adopted guiding principles on intellectual property protection for generative AI operators, calling on such businesses to disclose an outline of data and methods used to train their AI tools. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/25/japan/japan-urges-learning-data-disclosure/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #kimionoda #intellectualproperty #copyrights

Upcoming: NOVA IPSI Course on #IntellectualProperty & #Sustainability

This year’s edition will focus on the EU legal system and dive into:

• Environmental protection and IP incentives behind green innovation
• Circular economy and IP rules applying in repair and reuse
• Social inclusivity through IP legal mechanisms

2 to 11 December 2026
Online or on-site in Lisbon

See you there?

https://edsantos.eu/upcoming-nova-ipsi-course-on-ip-and-sustainability/

Purely AI-generated content does not have copyright protection in the US and "Prompts are Not Authorship".

Federal law, rulings by the U.S. Copyright Office, and federal court decisions (like Thaler v. Perlmutter) have firmly established that human authorship is a mandatory baseline requirement for copyright.

AI-Assisted Works: If a human uses AI as a tool to assist in the creative process, the work may qualify for copyright protection, but only for the human-authored components.

The "Prompts are Not Authorship" Rule: The U.S. Copyright Office has clarified that simply writing a prompt (even a very detailed or creative one) does not give the user control over the expressive elements of the final output.
https://www.copyright.gov/ai/ “Where that creativity is expressed through the use of AI systems, it continues to enjoy protection. Extending protection to material whose expressive elements are determined by a machine, however, would undermine rather than further the constitutional goals of copyright.” https://www.copyright.gov/newsnet/2025/1060.html

In March 2, 2026, SCOTUS denied certiorari in Thaler v. Perlmutter, leaving intact the D.C. Circuit's ruling that the Copyright Act requires copyrightable works to be authored by a human being. https://www.scotusblog.com/cases/thaler-v-perlmutter/

See also: Copyright Protection for AI-Generated Content Under U.S. Law
https://ailegalauthority.com/ai-generated-content-copyright/

#law #copyright #LLM #AI #iplaw #intellectualProperty #US

Does copyright protect your AI-generated content in EU? Apparently not. Content that is entirely generated by artificial intelligence is not protected by copyright. EU copyright law has strictly human-centric foundation.

Daniel J. Gervais: 'When you put your name on an article that's written by ChatGPT or Claude, you're basically putting a provenance mark on it saying: I take responsibility for this. I haven't written it, but I'm putting my name on it. That doesn't give you copyright, but it does give you liability for the content' https://euobserver.com/232898/interview-does-copyright-protect-your-ai-generated-content-in-europe-lets-find-out/

Gervais, Daniel J. and Shemtov, Noam and Marmanis, Haralambos and Zaller Rowland, Catherine, The Heart of the Matter: Copyright, AI Training, and LLMs (September 21, 2024). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4963711 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4963711

"Munich Local Court has held that AI generated logos do not enjoy copyright protection. Neither mere prompting nor the selection between several AI suggestions is sufficient as a human creative contribution. For businesses, this is ambivalent. On the one hand, content generated purely by AI can hardly be protected on an exclusive basis, which has implications for brand building and content strategies" https://www.germanlawinternational.com/intellectualproperty/copyright/from-the-printing-press-to-ai-how-the-eu-plans-to-modernize-copyright-law-164154/

#law #copyright #LLM #AI #iplaw #intellectualProperty #EU

TorrentFreak: A German Court Drew the Piracy Line at 81.5%, KinoGO Was Blocked with (at least) 82.4%. “Germany doesn’t have a hard benchmark for when a site is structurally infringing. However, the site-blocking clearinghouse CUII stated that illegal content clearly outweighs legal content when at least 81.5 percent of a site is infringing. After KinoGO was recently blocked with a floor of 82.4 […]

Japan panel has approved a plan to adopt a "principle code" for generative artificial intelligence businesses to protect intellectual property rights by urging firms to publicly disclose their AI training data. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/19/japan/ai-training-data-disclosure/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #ai #intellectualproperty #tech #copyrights

Gizmodo: Google Can’t Promise You’ll Always Have Access to Your Digital Library, but Can Give You a Small Credit. “Having your favorite films and TV shows in your digital library is supposed to mean you can access them anytime, anywhere. It actually means being able to access them as long as your digital overlord allows. Polygon recently highlighted how this problem hits consumers, […]