The IPKat

JANUARY 17, 2024

Translated into copyright language: a critical edition is an example of derivative work. In 2017, the Regional Court of Bucharest held that the defendants had infringed the professor’s moral right of attribution. Despite (or rather because of ?) In my view, this is so even for reasons beyond the question of originality.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Like most copyright systems, French copyright law does not leave much room for the freedom of authors of transformative graphic works (also called “derivative works”). Three interesting cases on derivative works, two involving Jeff Koons and one Tintin, have recently put French copyright law in the international spotlight (e.g.

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The IPKat

MARCH 22, 2024

The IPKat is pleased to host the following guest post by Katfriend Caroline Theunis (Bar of the Province of Antwerp) on the copyright troubles of music superstar and copyright-savvy artist Taylor Swift. After Swift had found herself dissatisfied with the way in which BMR had made use of its rights, she decided to re-record the albums.

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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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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Fair uses tend to divide into buckets: justified by new work; justified by project. New work: Derivative work or embedding work: Cambpell v. Use is justified by context of being placed in new work. Rosenblatt: how we think about that might be different in music sampling than other derivative works.

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