Intellectual Property Digest

04/01/2024

COPYRIGHT NEWS

Boom in A.I. Prompts a Test of Copyright Law

The boom in artificial intelligence tools that draw on troves of content from across the internet has begun to test the bounds of copyright law.

Authors and a leading photo agency have brought suit over the past year, contending that their intellectual property was illegally used to train A.I. systems, which can produce humanlike prose and power applications like chatbots.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/30/business/media/copyright-law-ai-media.html

04/01/2024

30/07/2023

MUSIC BUSINESS HUB SERIES #5 (PART 2)

TOP PROFITABLE MUSIC BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES FOR MUSICIANS

13. Start a YouTube channel
YouTube is a fantastic discovery platform for musicians. If you’re trying to make a name for yourself, starting your own YouTube channel is a must. But aside from the promotional benefits, you can also earn money directly through YouTube too.

The most straightforward way to make money on YouTube is through Adsense. Once you reach a certain number of subscribers and views, you can run ads on your music videos to monetize them and earn revenues based on the number of people that view those ads.

Another way to monetize your YouTube channel is by using it as a platform to promote your online store, or by promoting affiliate offers such as Amazon affiliate links for the instruments you play.

14. Use Content ID to earn revenue from other YouTube videos
Aside from earning ad revenue through your own YouTube videos, you can also monetize other people’s YouTube videos if they use your music without permission.

Thanks to YouTube’s content ID system, copyright holders can automatically identify videos on the platform that use their copyright-protected content (this includes the beats, music, and audio that you create). And once you find them, you can ‘claim’ the video. When you do so, YouTube will place ads on it and collect the ad revenue on your behalf.

However, YouTube only grants content ID to copyright owners that meet certain criteria. So the easiest way to go about it is to sign up for and submit your beats to a content ID company that can take care of it for you. We’d recommend Airbit.

15. Sell lyrics
If you’re a talented lyricist, you can make a lot of money selling your song lyrics to other musicians. There are plenty of platforms such as SongBay and SoundBetter that can facilitate this.
...... To be continued

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29/06/2023

REGULATORY AGENCY NEWS

NAFDAC Alerts Nigerians Over Contaminated Soft Drink Bottles

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has alerted the public of a contaminated batch of unwholesome Sprite 50cl glass bottles circulating in Nigeria.

Read more on : https://leadership.ng/nafdac-alerts-nigerians-over-contaminated-soft-drink-bottles/

27/06/2023

TRADEMARK NEWS

Taco John’s responds to Taco Bell’s Taco Tuesday Trademark lawsuit

Taco John’s, a regional chain, has responded to Taco Bell’s effort to liberate the trademark phrase “Taco Tuesday” so that anyone can use it.

Read more on: https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/26/business/taco-johns-taco-tuesday-response/index.html

27/06/2023

COPYRIGHT NEWS

Appeal Court affirms lower court judgment awarding N500m against Cross River State Government for Copyright Infringement

The Court of Appeal sitting in Calabar, Cross River State has affirmed the 2018 judgment of the Federal High Court awarding the sum of N500 million to Copyright Society of Nigeria, Nigeria’s biggest copyright collective management organisation.

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The award, by the Court of Appeal on Monday, was for copyright infringement at the Calabar Carnival and Festival.

18/06/2023

COPYRIGHT NEWS

US music publishers hit Twitter with copyright suit

Major music publishers on Wednesday filed a federal lawsuit accusing Twitter of failing to stop “rampant” copyright infringement on the platform.

The National Music Publishers’ Association and its members argued in the suit that the social media company should pay as much as $150,000 per work infringed, with the potential tab climbing into the hundreds of millions of dollars.

Read more on: https://punchng.com/us-music-publishers-hit-twitter-with-copyright-suit/

29/04/2023

INNOVATION AND INVENTION:
EU proposes new copyright rules for generative AI

By Supantha Mukherjee, Foo Yun Chee and Martin Coulter

STOCKHOLM, April 27 (Reuters) - Companies deploying generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, will have to disclose any copyrighted material used to develop their systems, according to an early EU agreement that could pave the way for the world's first comprehensive laws governing the technology.

Read more on:
https://www.reuters.com/technology/eu-lawmakers-committee-reaches-deal-artificial-intelligence-act-2023-04-27/

29/04/2023

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY:
The benefits AI can bring to the intellectual property landscape

by Leigh Mc Gowran

Aon’s David Andrews explains how machine learning and generative AI can reduce legal costs and accurately predict patent case outcomes.

Read more on:
https://www.siliconrepublic.com/machines/ai-machine-learning-intellectual-property-ip-law-aon

29/04/2023

WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DAY 2023:
Intellectual Property Day: A toast to women’s creativity (2)

By Prof. Adebambo Adewopo (SAN)

The pervasive culture of gender bias and the dearth of access to funding, infrastructure, information, education, and more particularly within the local communities due to its largely subsistent level and informal nature of trade have limited the creative and innovative capacity of women. In this dynamic, women are severely affected.

Read more on:
https://guardian.ng/opinion/intellectual-property-day-a-toast-to-womens-creativity-2/

26/04/2023

COPYRIGHT NEWS:
No Dancing, Judge Tells Jury at Ed Sheeran Copyright Trial

NEW YORK (Reuters) -With Ed Sheeran on the witness stand in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday during a copyright trial, jurors were warned to keep their composure while watching a video of the British pop star performing a medley of his hit song "Thinking Out Loud" and the classic Marvin Gaye tune "Let's Get it On."

"We don't allow dancing," U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton instructed the seven-member jury.

Read more on: https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2023-04-25/ed-sheeran-appears-in-us-court-for-copyright-trial-over-marvin-gayes-lets-get-it-on

26/04/2023

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY:
NOTAP Patents 393 Intellectual Property

The National Office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion (NOTAP) has awarded 393 patents since its inception in 2016, its director-general, Dan Azumi Ibrahim, said on Tuesday in Abuja.

Read more on: https://gazettengr.com/notap-patents-393-intellectual-property/