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Infringement risk relating to creation and use of the output of a generative AI system
Where the Output of a generative AI system is the same or substantially similar to a third party’s copyright work
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Global | Publication | November 2015
On October 16, 2015, Ms. Johanne Bélisle, Commissioner of Patents, Registrar of Trademarks and Chief Executive Officer at the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO), gave a keynote address at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Intellectual Property Institute (IPIC) in which she provided an update on the expected date for the implementation in Canada of the Nice, Madrid and Singapore international trademark treaties, which are set to significantly overhaul and modernize the existing trademark legislative landscape.
As per her declaration, the Nice Classification is still intended to be included in Canadian law shortly during the Fall of 2015, while the Singapore Treaty and Madrid Protocol are now set to be implemented in early 2018 (as compared to initial estimates of late 2015/early 2016), thus pushing back the estimated date of entry into force of the amendments to the Trademarks Act.
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Where the Output of a generative AI system is the same or substantially similar to a third party’s copyright work
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The approach and requirements for intellectual property rights to subsist in computer-generated works vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.
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Generative AI systems are trained using vast amounts of data, often taken from sources in the public domain that may be protected by copyright or other intellectual property rights, such as, in the UK and EU, a database right.
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