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Too Rusty For Krusty–Nickelodeon v. Rusty Krab Restaurant (Guest Blog Post)

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Fanworks seek to create something pleasurable—and sometimes profitable—that exploits’ fans love for the universe and its characters but risk trademark and copyright liability in the process. Pixi Universal, LLC, 2022 WL 909865 (S.D. March 25, 2022). Case citation : Viacom Int’l v. The complaint.

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27th Annual BTLJ-BCLT Symposium: From the DMCA to the DSA: Panel 3: Intended and Unintended Consequences of the DSA

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The nonprofit I work with, the Organization for Transformative Works (“OTW”) was established in 2007 to protect and defend fans and fanworks from commercial exploitation and legal challenge. The OTW’s nonprofit, volunteer-operated website hosting transformative, noncommercial works, the Archive of Our Own, as of late 2022 had over 4.7

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