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

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

It confirms both ownership of valid copyrights and copying by the defendants of original constituent elements of the works. 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.

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IPSC Breakout Session #2: mostly copyright and then marijuana innovation

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The movie adaptation of the book isn’t inherently fair use. The majority says that limiting doctrines account for Kagan’s examples—which involved use of expression—as well as the dissent’s own copying and the Court’s too. But he doesn’t see that in majority and its emphasis on the specificity of the use.