The Sleepy Copyright Office in the Middle of a High-Stakes Clash Over AI

The attention stems from a first-of-its-kind review of copyright law in the age of artificial intelligence. The #technology — which feeds off creative content — has upended traditional norms around #copyright, which gives owners of books, movies and music the exclusive ability to distribute and copy their works.

#LibraryOfCongress #artificialintelligence #AI #intellectualproperty #IP #legal #tech

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/25/technology/ai-copyright-office-law.html

After 20 yrs, #BillWillingham releases #Fables into the #PublicDomain. *HE* is still under contract with #DCComics for future work / #royalties / project approval, but the public is not, not bound by #trademarks or #copyright, & free to do as they like with it in #FanFic & other forms of #art.

He's had disputes with DC Comics forever w/o much relief & this is one of his ways to fight back.

https://billwillingham.substack.com/p/willingham-sends-fables-into-the

#trademark #PressRelease #IP #IntellectualProperty #TellTaleGame #CopyrightLaw

Checking in on that #USPTO request for comments on "Future Strategies in Anticounterfeiting and Antipiracy." https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/05/25/2023-10770/future-strategies-in-anticounterfeiting-and-antipiracy

Comments are due in two weeks.

Looks like there are currently a total of eight comments.

Four have been posted: https://www.regulations.gov/document/PTO-C-2023-0006-0001/comment

As some of you know, I'm currently writing about the rhetoric of "counterfeiting" in discussions of design patent law & policy. We'll see if any of these comments end up in my next draft.

#IntellectualProperty