Proposed US Bill Reduces Fees and Barriers to Copyrighting Photos — “VACRA would increase the cap on group photo registrations to 3,000 works, up from 750, and would order the US Copyright Office to create a new deferred registration option for photo, graphic, and sculptural works, reducing the cost of a deferred registration by half and delay examination of those works until the copyright owner requests it, Bloomberg Law reports. Additionally, a work’s registration would become effective the day a deferred application is submitted, which would allow a copyright owner to enforce that copyright in court even if it hasn’t been examined by the Office.”
Judge advances digital publisher Ziff Davis’ ChatGPT copyright infringement claims — “Ruling on OpenAI’s motion to dismiss Ziff Davis’ first amended complaint, U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein refused to throw out three of the publisher’s copyright infringement claims in which the Mashable publisher accused OpenAI of distributing copies of its copyrighted works with the copyright management information removed, in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.”
Respondents to UK AI Consultation Overwhelmingly Want AI Companies to License Copyrighted Works in All Cases — “In a Progress Statement published Monday, the UK Government said that its ongoing consultation on copyright and AI has drawn over 11,500 responses, 10,112 of which were submitted via an online survey service, and that 88% of those who responded online supported requiring licenses to use copyrighted works for AI training in all cases.”
Bringing Law and Order to the AI Wild West — “We’ve witnessed spikes in licensing, agreements, and other constructive partnerships and developments in response to different news, like when CloudFlare offered tools for news media publishers to make their news media content unavailable for AI scraping without permission and when news of the Anthropic settlement first broke. But, in many ways, those spikes pale in comparison to the explosion of licensing activities we have witnessed over the past several weeks.”
The CJEU’s Mio/Konektra ruling on the copyright protection of works of applied art: interpreting the interpreter — “It is not possible to establish standards of protection that allow us to determine in abstract terms and with total certainty whether a work of applied art is copyright protected. Such an ambition, as the AG has rightly pointed out, is utopian, since the classification of as a work in copyright law requires inevitably complex and, in part, subjective assessments which can only be made on a case-by-case basis. What the CJEU can do in order to prevent to the maximum possible extent divergent decisions from the Courts of the EU Member States is to formulate in the clearest and least ambiguous possible manner the abstract criteria that should be applied in the concrete cases by those courts. In the Mio/Konektra ruling, the CJEU has accomplished this mission with a fair amount of success.”