Tech
Court Rules AI Cannot Be Copyrighted: Landmark Ruling on Human Authorship
This decision represents a significant setback for efforts to grant intellectual property rights to creations made by artificial intelligence.
LawyerMonthly
Results for “Copyright Act 2005 (Act 690)”
2216 results.
Africa
Copyright protection in the digital age
Year 2020 forced changes in the way we do things in the world, caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, which is still on rampage. Several countries went into series of lockdowns and ordered its citizens to stay at home.
DL News
US
Supreme Court Hands Google a Landmark Win — and Hollywood a Huge Concern
Google can let out a huge sigh of relief now that the Supreme Court has saved the tech giant from billions of dollars in damages in a long-lasting lawsuit brought by Oracle over computer code used to build the Android operating system.
DL News
General
Go beyond citing names of composers for copyright-Expert admonishes musicians
Merely mentioning the name of an artist in a song does not satisfy the requirements of the Copyright law in using said artist's song
DL News
Courts
Hotel Association sues GHAMRO over unlawful royalty charges
According to court documents, the GHA is challenging the current model used by GHAMRO and ARSOG to assess and collect royalties from its members, describing it as inconsistent with Ghana’s copyright laws.
DL News
Tech
AI and Copyright: GIMPA Law Dean calls for modernization of Ghana’s framework
He called for the amendment of the provisions of the Copyright Act to acknowledge the transformative nature of AI-generated content on copyrightable works
DL News
Business
Sue repeat offenders-Court of Appeal Justice urges copyright holders
Justice Dr Poku Adusei warned that illegal photocopying, scanning, downloading, and digital circulation of learning materials have become “widespread and systemic” across the country’s universities.
DL News
General
Musicians in Ghana will not be poor if Copyright laws are enforced – GHAMRO CEO
CEO of Ghana Music Rights Organization (GHAMRO), Abraham Adjatey says musicians in Ghana will not complain of poverty if copyright laws are enforced in the country.
DL News
Others
Delhi High Court restrains illegal websites from hosting Warner Bros content
Warner Bros in its plea claimed that it had conducted an investigation and learnt of the extent of the infringing activity of the rogue websites, which had streamed and downloaded their original cinematograph films in which copyright vests.
LawBeat
Others
India: Supreme Court refuses to quash copyright complaint against Puma
The complaint alleged that their music was being played in the retail outlet of the Puma store at Elante Mall, without there being a licence in their favour issued under the Copy Right Act.
LawBeat
Tech
Bollywood music labels sue OpenAI over copyright
The music labels argue that OpenAI, the company behind popular AI tools like ChatGPT, has been using their recordings without permission to train its language models.
Lawyer Monthly
Tech
How ChatGPT challenges current intellectual property laws
New AI technologies may infringe on others’ copyrights by being deemed infringing derivatives of a copyrighted source they used to generate their output.
LAW.COM
Courts
High Court orders UPSA to desist, pay compensation over copyright infringement
The lawsuit was initiated by the Reprographic Rights Organisation of Ghana (CopyGhana), a body representing the interests of authors and publishers.
Richard Osei Boateng
Others
Article: When AI retells our stories: what culture will Ghana’s next generation inherit?
As AI becomes a powerful tool for storytelling, this article examines the risk of inaccurate AI-generated narratives becoming accepted as cultural truth, and considers how Ghana can protect its heritage while still embracing the opportuniti...
Akua Boakyewaa Mensah
General
Building Your own Legal Empire: Dare to be Different -Lawyer Maxwell Opoku-Agyemang writes
I remember at the Faculty of Law University of Ghana at our time, the most popular electives were Trade and Investment Law, Commercial Law, Private International Law. However, I chose with few others to study Natural Resources Law.
Maxwell Opoku-Agyemang, Former Director of the Ghana School of Law
Tech
Authors file copyright infringement against OpenAI, claiming books used as training material for ChatGPT
It alleged that large portions of the copyrighted material was allegedly used to train ChatGPT to enable it to “emit convincingly naturalistic text outputs in response to user prompts,” according to the complaint.
LAW.COM
Tech
AI chief quits over 'exploitative' copyright row
Ed Newton-Rex was head of audio at the firm, which is based in the UK and US.
BBC
Supreme Court News
NDKs claim of 1.2bn thrown out by the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court ruled that the Government will not have to pay the GHS 1.2bn judgment debt application filed by NDK Financial Services
DL News
Courts
Obrafour sues Drake for copyright infringement, seeks $10m in damages
Obrafour says an agent of Drake had previously sought permission to use the copyrighted work, which he never granted, and then released the track days later anyway.
DL News
General
Writers should adopt collective licensing to safeguard IPs-Justice Poku Adusei
According to him, such creators should collaborate with Collective Management Organisations (CMOs) to make this a reality. CMOs are entities that handle licensing, royalty collection, and distribution of payments to creators and copyright h...
DL News