Keyword: Copyright
Everything is harmonized. The CJEU’s decision in Kwantum v. Vitra external link
Copyright and the Expression Engine: Idea and Expression in AI-Assisted Creations download
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This essay explores AI-assisted content creation in light of EU and U.S. copyright law. The essay revisits a 2020 study commissioned by the European Commission, which was written before the surge of generative AI. Drawing from traditional legal doctrines, such as the idea/expression dichotomy and its equivalents in Europe, the author argues that iterative prompting may lead to copyright protection of GenAI-assisted output. The paper critiques recent U.S. Copyright Office guidelines that severely restrict registration of works created with the aid of GenAI. Human input, particularly in the conceptual and redaction phases, provides sufficient creative control to justify copyright protection of many AI-assisted works. With many of the expressive features being machine-generated, the scope of copyright protection of such works should, however, remain fairly narrow.
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Artificial intelligence, artistic expression, Copyright
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Geoblocking measures sufficient to prevent a “communication to the public”? The CJEU gets a second chance external link
ALLEA Statement in Support of Secondary Publication Rights for Scholarly Articles external link
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The European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities (ALLEA) has for many years supported the move away from proprietary models of scholarly publishing towards Open Access (OA). ALLEA, therefore, welcomes the recognition in the laws of an increasing number of European countries of so-called ‘Secondary Publication Rights’ (SPRs) that allow publicly funded researchers to make their published articles available on institutional websites and non-profit online repositories, regardless of persistent contractual practices that require authors to transfer their copyrights to commercial publishers. SPRs are proving to be strong enablers of OA to publicly funded research output, without the excessive costs associated with Gold OA models. ALLEA therefore calls upon the European Union (EU) to initiate harmonising legislation that would accord SPRs to scientific researchers in all 27 Member States of the EU.
Copyright, open access, Secondary Publication Rights (SPR)
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Old Volumes Never Die. IViR and Kluwer Launch Archive of Information Law Series Back Issues external link
Additional Remuneration Rights for Online Streaming on Reference to the CJEU external link
EU copyright law roundup – third trimester of 2024 external link
Prompts tussen vorm en inhoud: de eerste rechtspraak over generatieve AI en het werk download
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Kan het gebruik van generatieve AI-systemen een auteursrechtelijk beschermd werk opleveren? Twee jaar na de introductie van Dall-E en ChatGPT begint zich enige jurisprudentie te vormen. Daarbij is de kernvraag of het aansturen van dergelijke systemen door middel van prompts (instructies) voldoende is om de output als ‘werk’
te kwalificeren. Dit artikel gaat, mede aan de hand van de vroegste rechtspraak in de Verenigde Staten, China en Europa, dieper in op deze lastige kwestie.
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Artificial intelligence, Copyright