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Prince, Prince, Prints: Will the Supreme Court Revisit Fair Use?

LexBlog IP

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] It found that all four fair use factors weighed against fair use. [12] Goldsmith counterclaimed for copyright infringement.

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3 Count: Extrinsic vs. Intrinsic

Plagiarism Today

First off today, Massimo Capizza at the National Law Review reports that the Supreme Court of the United States has denied certiorari in a case over the 2003 Josh Groban song You Raise Me Up , leaving a circuit split in place over how to determine substantial similarity between two works. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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Time for the 12 O'Clock Boyz to go: court shuts down (c)/TM lawsuit against documentary & feature film about Baltimore bikers

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Plaintiffs also alleged infringement of Monbo’s right of publicity, unjust enrichment, and violations of the Lanham Act and related Maryland trademark law. Monbo appeared as an actor in the 2001 and 2003 Documentaries, was interviewed in “[a]t least two” of the segments defendants used, and was not compensated for the use of his likeness.

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When you can't know a book by its title, and the law may even leave you confused

The IPKat

The Wikipedia entry begin as follows— For the 2003 novel, see The Miniaturist (Kunal Basu novel)." An international bestseller, it was the focus of a publishers' bidding war at the 2013 London Book Fair.[2] Interesting, even fascinating, but it did not compute with the book title in this Kat's memory.

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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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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? If the work was published without proper copyright notice, the work entered the public domain. This strikes me as the wrong result. 2d at 206. (The

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