Category: Intellectual Property
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AI Copyright Law and the USCO Report: What It Means for AI-Generated Content
On January 29, 2025, the United States Copyright Office (USCO) published a report addressing the crucial question of whether and to what extent AI-generated content should be protected by copyright. This report follows a global consultation launched in August 2023, gathering over 10,000 comments from 67 countries. Coming after the December 20, 2024, report by…
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Creation of a data set for training purposes: towards non-infringement of copyright?
On September 27, 2024, the Hamburg Landgericht (LG) handed down a long-awaited ruling on the issue to know whether the creation of a database (LAION) reproducing almost six billion images, together with descriptive texts and related links, infringes existing copyright on these images. As a preliminary point, it should be noted that the question was…
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Artificial Intelligence and patent prior art
On April 30, 2024, the USPTO launched an RFC (Request for Comments) inviting the public to comment by July 29, 2024 on the issue to know whether content generated by generative tools may be considered as prior art, and the impact such tools may have on the notion of a person having ordinary skilled in…
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An AI system cannot be an inventor
On 11 June 2024, the Bundesgerichthof confirmed that it clearly follows from § 37 PatG that only a natural person can be designated as an inventor, to the exclusion of an artificial intelligence system. The Bundesgerichthof recalls that, while the invention must bear witness to an inventive activity, it is irrelevant whether it is made…
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Un système d’intelligence artificielle ne peut pas être un inventeur
Le 11 juin 2024, le Bundesgerichthof a confirmé qu’il résulte clairement du § 37 PatG que seule une personne physique peut être désignée comme inventeur, à l’exclusion d’un système d’intelligence artificielle. Le Bundesgerichthof rappelle que si l’invention doit témoigner d’une activité inventive, il est indifférent qu’elle soit réalisée par l’intermédiaire d’un système d’intelligence artificielle tant…