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Why Astley’s New Soundalike Lawsuit Should Be Rickrolled Out Of Court

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British singer Rick Astley is best known for “ Never Gonna Give You Up ,” a song people voluntarily listened to in 1987 and were tricked into listening to in 2007. Gravy and his team couldn’t get a license to sample the master recording. “So, The defendants obtained a license to use the former, but not the latter.

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13 Spooky Copyright Cases, Just in Time for Halloween

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.” 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. In 1999, Cinema Secrets licensed the right to sell a Michael Myers Halloween mask from the film’s copyright owner. ROMERO’S DAWN OF THE DEAD.

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Ninth Circuit Reaffirms the “Server Test” for Direct Infringement of the Public Display Right — Hunley v. Instagram, LLC (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

It is certainly within the definition of chutzpah to publicly display your own work on the Internet, visible for anyone to see for free and without further conditions, and then to complain that others are helping people find your work by linking to it. Surely paid licensing should not have to work on an all-or-nothing basis.