LexBlog IP

JUNE 2, 2023

The Supreme Court recently upheld an appellate court’s ruling that Andy Warhol’s use of a photograph of Prince as a reference for a collection of screen prints is not fair use – to the extent his foundation decided to license them at least. Goldsmith et al, Case No. Goldsmith et al, Case No.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Incoherent to raise/evaluate fair use as to an act that wasn’t a use or infringement. DJ sought declaratory judgment that Prince Series as such was transformative, grounded in the artwork itself; a static claim w/o regard to specific use or purpose. Glynn Lunney, Transforming Fair Use.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 7, 2023

A pair of copyright decisions issued in May, one involving the appropriation artist Richard Prince [1] and the other involving works portraying the musician known as Prince, explore and expand on the “fair use” defense to copyright infringement. On May 11, the U.S. 2] A week later, the U.S. 3] Graham v.

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IIPRD

APRIL 8, 2024

This article delves into the ongoing debate around the issue of right of ownership of copyright by AI generators for their novel artwork. The ambit of IPR when it comes to recognizing these AI generators and whether they are also capable of copyright infringement by transforming other creators work has been discussed in detail in the article.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

Basically, because an NFT is an encoded digital metadata file of a copy of a work that can be copyright protected. That is, in an NFT there can be an underlying copy of a work of art –typically an image, photograph, piece of music, video or certain audiovisual content– that may be subject to copyright.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 5, 2023

On May 18, 2023, the United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of famed rock photographer Lynn Goldsmith against the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.’s ’s (AWF), [1] in a long-awaited decision impacting fair use under Section 107(1) of the Copyright Act.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 26, 2023

On May 18, 2023, the United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of famed rock photographer Lynn Goldsmith against the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.’s ’s (AWF), [1] in a long-awaited decision impacting fair use under Section 107(1) of the Copyright Act.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

One of Deadly Doll’s popular designs is a cartoon image of a bikini-clad pin-up girl holding a skull: Deadly Doll’s original artwork. Deadly Doll has applied versions of its artwork to various products, including tops and sweatpants: Deadly Doll’s artwork as reproduced on useful articles. Vila’s Motion.

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IPilogue

JULY 18, 2022

Copyright Act —whether Warhol’s print is transformative of the original photograph so that it qualifies as fair use. As an avant-guard artist of his time, Warhol used the mechanical process of copying to challenge the conventional notion of art. In this sense, the act of copying is the very medium of Warhol’s art.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 23, 2023

A group of artists has filed a first-of-its-kind copyright infringement lawsuit against the developers of popular AI art tools, but did they paint themselves into a corner? As I noted in my prior article on AI art , AI tools aren’t copying images so much to access their creative expression as to identify patterns in the images and captions.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

Condé Nast paid the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. (“AWF”) $10,000 for the license, while Goldsmith received neither a license fee nor a source credit. 1] The Southern District of New York granted summary judgment to AWF on its claim of fair use, but the Second Circuit Court of Appeals reversed.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 7, 2023

Foto de Alice Dietrich na Unsplash US Supreme Court’s Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. Thus, guided by the principle of equality, copyright operates as a spectrum of creativity, where the level of protection granted to a work corresponds to its level of originality. [2]

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 9, 2023

The biggest copyright law question in the EU and US is probably whether using in-copyright works to train generative AI models is copyright infringement or falls under the transient and temporary copying and TDM exceptions (in the EU) or fair use (in the US). In the aftermath of cases like Authors Guild v.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 18, 2022

NFTs can be based on three-dimensional items or artwork, or can be purely digital creations—for example, a collectable digital sneaker or a token used in a videogame. Most NFTs are protected under US Copyright Law as creative works and/or may be derivative works based on pre-existing copyright-protected works.

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IP Tech Blog

MARCH 18, 2022

NFTs can be based on three-dimensional items or artwork, or can be purely digital creations—for example, a collectable digital sneaker or a token used in a videogame. Most NFTs are protected under US Copyright Law as creative works and/or may be derivative works based on pre-existing copyright-protected works.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 13, 2022

As previously reported on this blog , non-fungible tokens (or “NFTs”) recently emerged as one of the hottest new items on the art market—artists, auction houses, museums, sports organizations and others have jumped at the chance to create and sell their own versions of these unique tokens. On March 2, 2022, Hermès filed an Amended Complaint.

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