Day Pitney Intellectual Property Partner Alex P. Garens was featured in the Law360 article, "US Copyright Office Rejects Bid to Register AI-Generated Art." Garens, head of the firm's Trademark, Copyright and Advertising practice group, and Attorney Sean Park were counsel for Ankit Sahni's request for reconsideration of the U.S. Copyright Office's Review Board to register his artwork titled "Suryast." The refusal was not surprising, as it was in line with the office's previous refusals to register artworks generated using AI software.
Garens stated that the board's decision seems crafted to justify its desired outcome and has "troubling implications," for creative industries utilizing AI powered assistive tools. He added, "Construing Suryast as a derivative work conveniently allows the analysis to disregard the human contribution in the base image input, but this does reflect the creative process of staging and iteration, and yields a dangerous implication that application of AI tools to any preexisting human work-in-progress will render the modified work a new 'derivative work' that is unregistrable. Characterizing actual expressive decisions in the creative process as mere 'ideas' conflates indicators of originality with the scope of copyright protection, causing the originality analysis to collapse onto itself, as any creative decision taken in isolation is just an idea."
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Day Pitney Employment and Labor practice chair Heather Weine Brochin was featured in the Law360 article "Takeaways from the FTC's Noncompetes Ban."
Day Pitney Fiduciary and Probate Litigation Partner Ann Hetherwick "Hether" Cahill was featured in Super Lawyers Magazine article "The Boston Marathon: Philanthropy, a Dare, and a Fellini."
Day Pitney Employment and Labor practice chair Heather Weine Brochin was featured in FIERCE Healthcare's article "FTC Votes 3-2 on Final Rule to Ban Noncompete Agreements, But Legal Challenges Expected."
Day Pitney Litigation Partner Stephen Catanzaro and Litigation Associate Erin Hodgson authored the article "Appellate Division Rejects Objectors' Attempt to Challenge Development Approvals," for the New Jersey Law Journal.
Day Pitney Employment and Labor practice chair Heather Weine Brochin was featured in Variety's article "FTC Issues Ban on Noncompete Agreements – But Experts Say Rule Will Face Legal Challenges."
Day Pitney Data Privacy, Protection and Litigation chair William Roberts authored an op-ed with CBIA's President and CEO Chris DiPentima titled "Here Are Preemptive Measures to Limit a Cyberattack's Damage to Your Business," for the Hartford Business Journal.
Day Pitney Employment Attorneys James Leva, Howard Fetner and Lindsey Viscomi authored the alert "Employee's Medical Marijuana Termination Claim Goes Up in Smoke," that was published by the Connecticut Business & Industry Association (CBIA).
Day Pitney Florida Offices Managing Partner Manuel Garcia-Linares has been appointed to chair the firm's Litigation department. The news was featured in Miami Today.
On April 10, Day Pitney Family Office practice chair R. Scott Beach was a panelist Botoff Consulting's Family Governance Compensation Report webcast alongside Dennis Jaffe (BanyanGlobal Family Business Advisors) and Trish Botoff.
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