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A Lady Whistledown-Worthy Scandal!

IPilogue

Fans expressed their love for the show various ways on social media. Netflix argued that this is a direct violation of US copyright law , which provides that only copyright holders have the exclusive right to monetize and create derivative works of their IP. Since one of the event locations is in Washington D.C

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[Guest post] Bad Bunny shoo shooes anyone liking AI-generated song replicating his style and voice – is he right?

The IPKat

by Despoina Dimitrakopoulou Recently, the news of reggaeton mega-star Bad Bunny's eloquently put disappointment spread on social media, bringing up interesting questions concerning music creation using AI. Concerning the lawfulness of the outcome of this machine training, we need clarity on the exclusivity of making derivative works.

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Why Netflix’s “Bridgerton” Lawsuit is Good for Fan Fiction

Copyright Lately

performances of “The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical”) or other derivative works that might compete with Netflix’s own planned live events,” including the multi-city “ Bridgerton Experience.” . “Netflix would not authorize and did not want them to engage in any live performances (e.g.,

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The Battle Over Poker NFTs

Plagiarism Today

Famous for its expressionist renderings of various poker players, the site and its artist, Brett Butz, sold not only completed works but offered commissioned pieces that were popular among poker players. In particular photographers that specialized in shooting poker events.

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With Friends Like These: Copyright Implications Of Novelists Drawing Inspiration From The Real Lives They Cross

LexBlog IP

” So, while writers have a compulsion to use what they know from life to create their works of imagined lives, they will draw not only on events central and personal to themselves but on many things intersecting or tangential to the writer’s own life. They have to look and see, that’s all. Then they have to write.”

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IT’S THE COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT FOR ME: WHY CLAIMS AGAINST MEME CONTENT SHOULD NOT MATTER

JIPL Online

Memes utilize pop culture content, such as movies, television shows, and other various forms of media, often in a parodic way. Such uses are often methods of social commentary regarding the user’s own life, or more broadly, current events; they also often utilize copyrightable material. [i] Stearns, Todd J. vii] Deidrè A.

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How to Avoid Pitfalls on the Way to Decentralized Disney

Copyright Lately

Want to Create New Derivative Works? This still wouldn’t necessarily have given the buyer carte blanche to create new derivative works featuring the characters, as opposed to, perhaps, digital screengrabs from individual episodes. You Should Probably Read The License.