In Brief Recent developments in AI technologies have led to the increased use of AI to create a range of works, such as art, music, stories, and even lines of software code, in response to human inputs. This has resulted in an uptick of copyright applications filed with the U.S. Copyright Office (the “Office”) seeking registrations for works with varying degrees of contributions from generative AI tools. This calls into question whether, and to what…
The Vietnam Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism is working on the latest version of the Draft Copyright Decree to submit to the Government for review very soon.
Robots are now writing our daily news instead of journalists. No wonder, artifical intelligence (AI) is considered one of the most transformative technologies of our times. Much has been written about how AI will affect copyright and patent laws and change established concepts such as “author” and “inventor”. Decisions on those topics are now emerging, and without surprise, mostly from China where tech and AI are already used on a daily basis in shopping, the…
On 9 December 2015 the European Commission announced the first set of legislative proposals as part of its Digital Single Market (DSM) Strategy. The proposals include:Portability The Commission has released its proposals for portability of content in the Community. The draft Regulation on ensuring the cross-border portability of online content services (‘the draft Regulation’) sets out that providers of AV content services must enable cross-border portability for their users. This will be important for content services and rights…