IPilogue

JULY 18, 2022

Last year, Andy Warhol lost an infamous copyright infringement lawsuit against photographer Lynn Goldsmith regarding an image of the pop singer Prince. The focus of the conflict was the meaning of “transformative works” in the U.S. In other cases, museums invited artists to create derivative works based on museum collections.

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Velocity of Content

AUGUST 9, 2022

Goldsmith realized what had happened—that Warhol had made over a dozen works based on her photograph, the majority of which had not been licensed. She brought suit for copyright infringement, lost at the trial court because of the Warhol estate’s fair use defense but won on appeal to the Second Circuit.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 17, 2024

This case revisits the venerable topic of if, and when, cloning-and-revising a legal document can be copyright infringement. The plaintiff gets an expensive lesson in the law of derivative works. * * * UIRC offers bonds using a private placement memorandum (PPM) and an indenture of trust.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 16, 2023

Transformative use” is not mentioned in Section 107 of the Copyright Act but has been read into the first of four fair use factors. If you are confused by the difference between transformation that excuses infringement and transformation that is the exclusive right of the creator, welcome to my world.

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IIPRD

APRIL 8, 2024

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. 6] If these claims will be justified then the penalties will be placed for said infringement. [7]

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The IPKat

JUNE 27, 2022

Consequently, the definition of NFTs as “certificate of authenticity” or “certificate of ownership” is not accurate. Yuga Labs, therefore, still owns the copyright in each NFT.

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IIPRD

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

. • New Verities Of Hybrid IP Infringements aside from conventional infringements of intellectual property , pose a high challenge to the enforcement authorities. Despite technological measures and legal frameworks, combating copyright infringements continues to be a serious challenge in cyberspace.

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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. Goldsmith counterclaimed for copyright infringement.

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Trademark and Copyright Law Blog

APRIL 21, 2021

This dispute concerned Google’s use of Oracle’s “declaring code” – software that provides a list of functions and definitions that specify the parameters of application program interfaces (APIs) – in Google’s Android operating system. APIs allow different software programs to work together. Where Does this Leave the Software Industry?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

Ochoa’s definitive analysis of the Supreme Court’s Warhol opinion. As usual, readers who are already familiar with the case and/or with copyright law may skip the “Background” sections below (but don’t skip the commentary “The Road Not Taken”). [Eric’s note: this is the post you’ve been waiting for: Prof.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Larson also sought a declaration that she owns the copyright to The Kindest and that the letter in the short story does not infringe Dorland’s copyright. Dorland counterclaimed for copyright infringement, claiming that Larson’s use of Dorland’s letter was a violation of intellectual property law.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 5, 2023

Goldsmith notified AWF of her belief that the work infringed her copyright. Goldsmith counterclaimed for copyright infringement. A transformative work is fair use, and therefore not a copyright infringement, based on a reading of the Supreme Court’s holding in Campbell v. ” Id.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

Instead, Hunley and Brauer filed a class-action lawsuit against Instagram, alleging that Instagram was vicariously liable for, or was liable for encouraging or contributing to, the alleged direct infringement by others, by providing an “embedding” tool that easily could be used to facilitate public display of their photos. 94-1476, at 159-60.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Some critics argued that this decision failed to definitively establish whether there exists a singular parody exception encompassing related terms such as pastiche and caricature or if Article 5(3)(k) of the InfoSoc Directive prescribes three distinct exceptions. This perspective appears well-founded.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 12, 2024

Once we qualify the copies as “electronic,” it becomes unmistakable that this case deals with intangible items, not traditional “chattel” that are, by definition, tangible items. Either way, these allegations implicate the exclusive rights to copyright holders bestowed by federal statute. mobile device screen.”

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 3, 2023

Introduction Originality in copyright works is the sine qua non of all the copyright regimes of the world. The definition of “ original ” as most people understand it refers to something that has never been done before by any person. It was written with a distinct style and message.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 9, 2023

TLDR Generative AI is one of the hot topics in copyright law today. In the EU, a crucial legal issue is whether using in-copyright works to train generative AI models is copyright infringement or falls under existing text and data mining (TDM) exceptions in the Copyright in Digital Single Market (CDSM) Directive.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

While the court’s finding on the second ground alone would have sufficed, the first ground is especially interesting because the originality of the concept note was eventually determined on the basis of the originality of its derivative work i.e. Hulm Entertainment’s app. This criterion was primarily established in the EBC v.

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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Breaking down Miramax’s copyright infringement lawsuit against Quentin Tarantino, a dispute about NFTs that isn’t really about NFTs. But that doesn’t seem particularly relevant, because the derivative works at issue are actually the screenplay scans, not the NFTs. The breathless media reports soon followed.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 17, 2023

¯_(ツ)_/¯ We can infer from this opinion that treatment of Copyright Management Information (“CMI”) will be tricky for generative AI developers. Also, ignoring copyright licenses is at least arguably copyright infringement, and your fair use claim probably won’t get you out of the lawsuit at the motion to dismiss stage.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 19, 2022

It certainly hasn’t helped that the same word is used in the Copyright Act to define a derivative work (a work that is “recast, transformed , or adapted” from a pre-existing work), which in the absence of fair use is reserved to the copyright owner. Oracle opinion last term. Sonia Sotomayor.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 20, 2024

The facts of the case are all too familiar by now: in 2004, German band Kraftwerk took hip hop producer Moses Pelham to court for copyright infringement after he sampled two seconds of their song “Metall auf Metall” and looped it in Sabrina Setlur’s track “Nur Mir”. Although AG Crúz Villalon argued in his Opinion (para.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Counterclaim alleged that WF infringed by reproducing, publicly displaying, commercially licensing, and distributing the image, and by incorporating the photo into unauthorized derivative works. It is nonsensical to analyze fair use as a defense to something that is not copyright infringement to begin with.

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 6, 2023

Coakley’s threats prompted Wagging Tails—successor to Virtuoso and affiliated with Harvey Berger—to file its breach of contract and copyright infringement lawsuit against Coakley in federal court in Los Angeles. In 2021, Rachel Dolezal filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against CBS Interactive.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

“Literary works” are defined as “works … expressed in words, numbers, or other verbal or numerical symbols or indicia, regardless of the nature of the material objects, such as books, periodicals, manuscripts, phonorecords, film, tapes, disks, or cards, in which they are embodied.” [ 17 U.S.C. ” [ 17 U.S.C. Rickover , 284 F.2d

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