SpicyIP

APRIL 18, 2025

[Part II] Cryogas Judgment: Supreme Court Stops Copyright from Gaslighting Design By Aditya Bhargava In the first part of the post, I looked at how jurisprudence has evolved from the Microfibres case in 2006 up to the present case in Cryogas. If yes, the artistic part can get long-term protection (copyright in the U.S.;

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 30, 2021

The performance of the song clip in the film was transformative, as it was held that the filmmaker had used the unaltered song as “raw material” to produce a work with undoubtedly “new aesthetics” (in this regard, the District Court had cited the 2006 Second Circuit’s precedent Blanch v.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Photographs are included in Article 2(1) of the Berne Convention as copyrightable artistic works. All Berne Union Member States must thus provide copyright protection to photographic works. Photographic works. . To qualify as a photographic work, a photograph must meet the general “creativity” ( creatività ) threshold.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 22, 2024

The domain of copyright deals with the literary, musical, dramatic, and artistic works, and cinematograph films. Before the digital era, copyright protected tangible art or works, allowing authors to easily regulate usage, copies, and earnings.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 17, 2022

While many were observing the new year, intellectual property scholars and the artistic community were celebrating Public Domain Day. The previously copyrighted works enter the public domain, free to use and copy. public domain. where the work was still protected by copyright.

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Velocity of Content

JUNE 8, 2022

It also does not permit the foundation to impose, even in the UK, any restriction (other than the payment of royalties) on performances of, or creation of derivative works from, the play. > “ Peter Pan in Scarlet ” (2006 novel by Geraldine McCaughrean). One might wonder if a rights issue exists. But that’s none of my business. <Sips

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The Warhol Foundation argues that what it calls the Second Circuit’s “visual similarity” approach—which focuses on assessing the visual similarities between the two works to the exclusion of assessing their respective meanings or messages—conflicts with the Supreme Court’s instructions in Google and Campbell v. Goldsmith , 11 F.4th

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