43(B)log

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

A Few Words for a Lost Friend: Tribute to Dmitry Karshtedt (Bob Brauneis, Mark Lemley, Jake Sherkow) Closing Plenary Session: Fair use Robert Brauneis, Copyright Transactions in the Shadow of Fair Use Suppose a work does not infringe another work because and only because it’s been ruled a fair use.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

Supreme Court affirmed the Second Circuit’s ruling that the reproduction of Andy Warhol’s Orange Prince on the cover of a magazine tribute was not a fair use of Lynn Goldsmith’s photo of the singer-songwriter Prince, on which the Warhol portrait was based. By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa By a 7-2 vote, the U.S. Goldsmith , No.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 31, 2021

One of the practices that has generated a sizeable number of disputes and rulings is the use of photos to illustrate articles. These three cases address fair use in this context. McGucken moved for summary judgment on the fair use defense. That is unlike the magazine in Monge [v. McGucken v.

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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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LexBlog IP

JUNE 5, 2023

’s (AWF), [1] in a long-awaited decision impacting fair use under Section 107(1) of the Copyright Act. Goldsmith and, as a result, did not constitute fair use. [2] Goldsmith and, as a result, did not constitute fair use. [2] Goldsmith was not paid or credited for this use.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 26, 2023

’s (AWF), [1] in a long-awaited decision impacting fair use under Section 107(1) of the Copyright Act. Goldsmith and, as a result, did not constitute fair use. [2] Goldsmith and, as a result, did not constitute fair use. [2] Goldsmith was not paid or credited for this use.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 24, 2023

Goldsmith , Opinion located here , the estate of deceased pop artist Andy Warhol argued its use of the photo at issue was fair use under the first of the four Fair Use test factors (the “purpose and character of the use”), because Warhol’s contributions were transformative, adding new expression, meaning, or message.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 25, 2023

Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Andy Warhol’s portraits of music legend Prince did not qualify as fair use under copyright law. However, the majority rejected this argument, stating that the new expression alone did not determine the purpose or character of the copying use.

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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. copyright law, the Supreme Court focused on the actual use made, i.e. what the user does with the original work. copyright law. Copyright law in the U.S.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

1] That decision shook the art world, as it seems to dramatically narrow the scope of the fair use doctrine, and raises doubts about the lawfulness of many existing works. [2] Vanity Fair , in turn, commissioned Warhol to make a silkscreen using Goldsmith’s photograph. He did just that.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

Yesterday, the Supreme Court held 7-2 that a specific use of Andy Warhol’s “Orange Prince” silk screen—based on a copyrighted photograph of Prince—was not fair use. The first factor did not apply to Warhol’s image as published in Condé Nast in 2016, so that specific use was not fair use.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

In 1984, Vanity Fair sought to license the photograph for an “artist reference” in a story about the musician. Goldsmith agreed to license a one-time use of the photograph with full attribution. The first factor of fair use considers the nature of and reasons for a copier’s use of an original work. [4]

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IP Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2023

Sy Damle, (2016-2018 General Counsel) testified that “the training of AI models will generally fall within the established bounds of fair use.” (S. At the time Goldsmith was also licensing her original photograph to several magazines that were also writing articles about Prince’s life and music. Goldsmith , 598 S.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 31, 2023

The Court held that the first factor of the copyright fair use test favored respondent photographer, Lynn Goldsmith, rather than petitioner, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (“AWF”). Vanity Fair engaged Andy Warhol to create an illustration based on Goldsmith’s photograph for use in the magazine.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 7, 2023

Sy Damle, (2016-2018 General Counsel) testified that “the training of AI models will generally fall within the established bounds of fair use.” At the time Goldsmith was also licensing her original photograph to several magazines that were also writing articles about Prince’s life and music. ” (S.

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The series was originally commissioned by Vanity Fair after it bought the license of the photo portrait from Goldsmith. Goldsmith said she was not aware of Warhol’s work until Tribute magazine featured the image, without crediting her, when Prince passed away in 2016. The trial judge John G.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 5, 2023

Warhol and his Foundation’s claim of fair use lost. The case began after Prince died in 2016, when Vanity Fair magazine’s parent company, Condé Nast, published a special commemorative magazine celebrating his life. ” The license provided that the use would be for “one time” only.

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IP Intelligence

JUNE 6, 2023

Sy Damle, (2016-2018 General Counsel) testified that “the training of AI models will generally fall within the established bounds of fair use.” (S. At the time Goldsmith was also licensing her original photograph to several magazines that were also writing articles about Prince’s life and music. emphasis original).

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 27, 2023

” She continued: “ today’s decision—all the majority’s protestations notwithstanding—leaves our first-factor [for fair use] inquiry in shambles.the majority plants itself firmly in the ‘I could paint that’s school of art criticism.’” ’” Take that.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 7, 2023

In 1984, Condé Nast, the publisher, obtained a license from Goldsmith to allow Andy Warhol to use her Prince portrait as the foundation for a single serigraphy to be featured in Vanity Fair magazine. An example would be an artist copying a previous painting and merely altering the colors to pass it off as a new creation.

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Velocity of Content

JUNE 15, 2023

“If an original work and a secondary use share the same or highly similar purposes, and the secondary use is of a commercial nature, the first factor is likely to weigh against fair use, absent some other justification for copying.” Fair use is always extremely fact dependent.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In 1984, Vanity Fair magazine received a licence from photographer Lynn Goldsmith to use her 1981 portrait of Prince, which she had shot on assignment for Newsweek. In determining fair use according to the statute, one of the primary points of contention involved the meaning behind the “purpose and character” of the alleged use.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 28, 2022

While pleadings are not uploaded online by the Delhi High Court, Entrackr has obtained copies of the pleadings and has discussed some of the key facts and arguments here. Pocket FM claims to have an exclusive license from Manjul Publishing House, the publisher of translated titles, that holds the Hindi rights to these books.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 16, 2023

The case focuses on whether Ed Sheeran consciously copied Sami Switch’s chorus. Accordingly, this case is a useful example of how a court will: (1) assess the derivation requirement (of actual copying) of UK copyright; and, (2) as part of that, consider similarity between musical works for the purpose of copyright infringement.”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Fifth, assuming Trump owns a valid copyright, did he grant an implied license to Woodward to publish transcripts of the interviews and/or the record­ings themselves? Sixth, assuming Woodward published copyrighted material without Trump’s authorization, was he permitted to do so, either as a fair use, or by the First Amendment?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 30, 2022

The Rusty Krab court expands upon these points in its subsequent section detailing findings of law, but its discussion is fairly conclusory, mainly comprising maxims about what a parody is and isn’t rather than specific discussion of the defendants’ use and why it fails to qualify.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Ushered in sea change in terms of how it was used in art cases. For years, those cases had determined fair use by focusing largely on whether the secondary work was transformative: new meaning or message. The question is, under an equitable rule of reason, is the use fair? So: when do “uses” compete?

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

You see, when I was growing up, computers took up entire rooms and content was published on paper – books, newspapers, magazines, and yes, sometimes even broadcast on television or radio. Copying was tedious. Copying took effort. It was always perfectly clear to me what someone else authored and owned.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

AI-generated works have won awards: The Crow , an “AI-made” film won the Jury Award at the Cannes Short Film Festival and the story of an AI artwork winning the Colorado State Fair’s annual art competition was reported in The New York Times. AI-generated art was used for magazine covers, including Cosmopolitan and The Economist.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JULY 19, 2022

A person authorises the use of the space for the transmission, sale, distribution, or display of an unauthorised work unless they know or have good reason to suspect that doing so will result in a copyright violation. With today’s technology, it is very simple to copy and share the original works of other people.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 21, 2021

In 2019, Dolezal, then represented by notorious copyright troll Richard Liebowitz, filed a lawsuit against the publisher of Paper Magazine for using a photo from her Instagram account in a story. CBS’ use of her photo almost certainly qualifies as fair use, if she even owns the copyright in the first place.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The computer file—containing the program or content—must be copied from where it’s stored into the computer’s memory. 2 There are memory chips with permanent information, but we’re assuming that the software or content you want to use is going into random-access memory. Weird, right?

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43(B)log

MAY 22, 2023

Several had appeared in magazines, advertising campaigns, television episodes, and films. Plaintiffs claimed that they might have lost out on work due to the “reputational hit” from being linked with a strip club, and that they were deprived of licensing revenue for their images. Some were former Playboy Playmates.

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