Did Tolkien have copyrights to the languages created by him? Why Māori are more powerful than the Professor? And how the Oracle vs. Google case helps us to understand the protection of Quenya?In this episode, intellectual property lawyers Victo

Copyrights to Elvish and Traditional knowledge of Bionicle / S1E6: Tolkien 2

Dec 28th, 2023 27m 32s

Did Tolkien have copyrights to the languages created by himself? Why Māori are more powerful than the Professor? And how the Oracle vs. Google case helps us to understand the protection of Quenya? In this episode, intellectual property lawyers

Dec 22nd, 2023 31m 41s

How long should we wait until Tolkien's legacy becomes public domain? Or will it never happen due to trademarks? Who exactly owns the rights to the world of Middle-earth, and why is 'The Rings of Power' considered Amazon's fan-fiction? In this

IP in the AI world, copyright to ideas, and All the Music Project / S1E4: All the art

May 13th, 2023 19m 42s

What if robots generate all possible art? Does this generated content infringe copyrights on the earlier works created by humans? And will the works, created by humans after this point in history, be protected? To answer these questions, we l

Magazin der Kunst, Copyright Manifest of musicians, AI's symphony / S1E1: Beethoven

Apr 8th, 2023 14m 49s

In this episode, we're exploring the world of Beethoven's music and copyright. We're discussing whether his music can be used freely today, the Curse of the 9th Symphony, Beethoven's support of copyright, his socialist model of copyright protec

Robots in copyright and trademark cases / S1E2: AI

Mar 31st, 2023 17m 41s

🤖 Does content generating soft like Stable Diffusion or Midjourney violate copyright to works used for machine learning? That is the issue raised in the Getty Images v. Stability AI, as well as in a few of other cases of 2023. We have overview

Copyrights to texts of ghosts / S1E1: Supernatural

Feb 17th, 2023 10m 8s

👻 Can a psychic own copyrights to texts dictated to them by a spirit? This question was answered by courts in Cummins v. Bond (1926) and Oliver et al. v. Saint German Foundation et al. (1941) cases.We overview these legal precedents and find o

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