Published by the U.S. Copyright Office’s notification system NewsNet, Issue No. 1040 – March 12, 2024. Today, the U.S. Copyright Office and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) (collectively the “Offices”) published the results of their joint study on the intellectual property (IP) law and policy implications of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The Offices conducted…
International conference Art within Reach: Photomechanical Reproductions of Works of Art from Print to Digital, organized by the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. With the development of photomechanical printing techniques around 1900, the dissemination of visual information about art objects expanded on an unprecedented scale. For the first…
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a significant new focal point for the U.S. Copyright Office in 2023. The Office launched an AI initiative in mid-March, which was followed by four comprehensive listening sessions in April and May and then, most recently, by two very popular webinars in June and July. The webinars, which continued to…
Andy Warhol Fair Use Case Thursday, July 27, 2023 at 12:00 pm EDT / 9:00 am PDT Click here to register The US Supreme Court released its opinion in a fair use case that pits the interests of artists against each other, with profound implications for transformative use. Join Open Copyright Education Advisory Network (OCEAN)…
We are deeply concerned about the implications of the Italian Ministry of Culture’s Decree titled “Guidelines for the determination of the minimum amounts of fees and charges for the concession of use of cultural heritage kept by national institutes and places of culture” (D.M. April 11, 2023, no. 161). We shared the opinion expressed by…
Join Open Copyright Education Advisory Network (OCEAN) on Zoom for their upcoming Discussion Series. As always, there are no fees to attend but registration is required. They also ask that all participants please respect OCEAN’s Code of Conduct. First Panel: May 5, 2023 @ 12:00 PM EDT/9:00 AM PDT: The Internet Archive Case Update and…