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patents (b) and grants of privilege for the term of fourteen years or under, hereafter to be made, of the sole working or making of any manner of new manufactures within this realm (c) to the true and first inventor (d) and inventors of such manufactures, which others at the time of making such letters patents and grants shall not use …”
of late frequently taken the Liberty of Printing, Reprinting, and Publishing, or causing to be Printed, Reprinted, and Published Books, and other Writings, without the Consent of the Authors or Proprietors of such Books and Writings, to their very great Detriment, and too often to the Ruin of them and their Families: For Preventing therefore such Practices for the future, and for the Encouragement of Learned Men to Compose and Write useful Books; May it please Your Majesty, that it may be Enacted …”
to sell, or sells any patented invention, within the United States or imports into the United States any patented invention during the term of the patent therefor, infringes the patent.” 35 USC § 271
a mere instruction to ‘implemen[t]’ an abstract idea ‘on . . . a computer,’ that addition cannot impart patent eligibility.” “Given the ubiquity of computers, wholly generic computer implementation is not generally the sort of ‘additional featur[e]’ that provides any ‘practical assurance that the process is more than a drafting effort designed to monopolize the [abstract idea] itself.’” 134 S. Ct. at 2358.
showing the good faith of such person, to use a trademark in commerce may request registration of its trademark on the principal register …” 15 USC § 1051
technical, economic, or engineering information …” ‣ “… the owner thereof has taken reasonable measures to keep such information secret …” ‣ “… the information derives independent economic value, actual or potential, from not being generally known …” 18 USC § 1839
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the author of the Work’s text as well as the selection, coordination, and arrangement of the Work’s written and visual elements. That authorship is protected by copyright. However, as discussed below, the images in the Work that were generated by the Midjourney technology are not the product of human authorship.” Re: Zarya of the Dawn (Registration # VAu001480196)
alone do not provide sufficient human control to make users of an AI system the authors of the output. Prompts essentially function as instructions that convey unprotectible ideas. While highly detailed prompts could contain the user’s desired expressive elements, at present they do not control how the AI system processes them in generating the output. Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, Part 2: Copyrightability, USCO
audio, video, or a combination of these mediums. Some systems—whether via tools, settings, or prompts—allow inputs to be substantially retained as part of the output. [...], where a human inputs their own copyrightable work and that work is perceptible in the output, they will be the author of at least that portion of the output. Their own creative expression will be protected by copyright, with a scope analogous to that in a derivative work. Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, Part 2: Copyrightability, USCO
copyrightable ‣ Spec documents or tickets written by humans and later used as inputs are copyrightable and may provide protection on the combined work ‣ AI used only to assist probably does not impact copyrightability (e.g. simple autocomplete) ‣ Keep records on where AI is used and how
monetary relief … for infringement of copyright by reason of the storage at the direction of a user of material that resides on a system or network controlled or operated by or for the service provider, if the service provider … does not have actual knowledge that the material or an activity using the material on the system or network is infringing;” 17 USC § 512
provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that … is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing protection afforded by a technological measure that effectively protects a right of a copyright owner under this title in a work or a portion thereof;” 17 USC § 1201
new inventions ‣ Trademarks – Protect brand recognition ‣ Trade Secrets – Protect commercial secrets ‣ Licenses – Give limited use of exclusive rights ‣ Generative AI – New and untested territory
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