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Alfred v. Walt Disney Company: Decoding the concept of Substantial Similarity with respect to the Pirates of the Caribbean lawsuit

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Such rights include the right to reproduce the work, the right to public display and public performance, the right to adaptation, etc. If any other person makes an unauthorized copy of that work, the owner shall have a right of action against him. The defendants were provided with a copy of the screenplay.

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Ninth Circuit Refuses to Adopt “Ordinary Observer” Test for Substantial Similarity and Copyright Infringement

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Johannsongs-Publishing claimed that You Raise Me Up, which was written by Rolf Lovland and Brendan Graham and released in 2001 by Secret Garden and later by Josh Groban in 2003 infringed on its rights in Soknodur. Rather, the defendants focused their attack by claiming there was no triable issue as to the element of copying.

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Ninth Circuit Refuses to Adopt “Ordinary Observer” Test for Substantial Similarity and Copyright Infringement

LexBlog IP

Johannsongs-Publishing claimed that You Raise Me Up, which was written by Rolf Lovland and Brendan Graham and released in 2001 by Secret Garden and later by Josh Groban in 2003 infringed on its rights in Soknodur. Rather, the defendants focused their attack by claiming there was no triable issue as to the element of copying.

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A Preliminary Analysis of Trump’s Copyright Lawsuit Over Interview Recordings (Trump v. Simon & Schuster) (Guest Blog Post)

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Third, is Trump’s claim of ownership barred by 17 U.S.C. If the work was published without proper copyright notice, the work entered the public domain. After negotiations between them fell apart, both parties sued, each claiming exclusive ownership of the movie footage. 105 , as a “work of the United States Government”?

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