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Evolution of Tests of Creativity in Copyrights

IP and Legal Filings

Originality is the quality that distinguishes produced or invented works from copies, clones, forgeries, or derivative works by being new or novel. University Tutorial Press was sued by the plaintiff, University of London Press, for copyright infringement. 5] Appeal (civil) 6472 of 2004. [6] 4] 499 U.S.

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13 Spooky Copyright Cases, Just in Time for Halloween

Copyright Lately

But Lewis thought the song was a rip-off of “I Want a New Drug” and asserted a copyright infringement claim against Columbia Pictures. ” In 2004, video game publisher Capcom contacted MKR, the film’s producer, to inquire about about obtaining a license to use elements from the film in one of its games.

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Oops, I sampled again… The meaning of ‘pastiche’ as an autonomous concept under EU copyright law

Kluwer Copyright Blog

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.