Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Like most copyright systems, French copyright law does not leave much room for the freedom of authors of transformative graphic works (also called “derivative works”). Three interesting cases on derivative works, two involving Jeff Koons and one Tintin, have recently put French copyright law in the international spotlight (e.g.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

On May 18, 2023, the Supreme Court found that artistic changes to a pre-existing work, alone, not necessarily sufficient to make a derivative work fair use. Applying a new lens on how to view the purpose of a derivative work under U.S. copyright law.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Following Prince’s sudden and untimely death in 2016, the Warhol Foundation, successor to the copyright in the Prince Series, licensed to Condé Nast one of the Prince Series images for use in a commemorative magazine titled The Genius of Prince , which featured on its cover the image from the Prince Series. 5 (quoting Google , 141 S.

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 14, 2023

.” Focusing on the tattoo itself, defendants argue that “[t]he specific challenged use—a non-commercial tattoo hand-inked on the arm of Kat Von D’s friend—is nothing like the copyrighted use, a photograph licensed to be used in a magazine article about Miles Davis.”

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 10, 2024

As noted here previously, one incapable of fitting within the definition of “author” might nonetheless have a right of publicity claim where copyright does not work, and using another’s voice for commercial gain is different from making fair use of a transcript of another’s words. Random House, Inc.

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