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AN ARGUMENT FOR EMBRACING THE LEGALITY OF CROWDFUNDED GAME MODS

JIPL Online

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Mods are beneficial for the video game industry, [3] but mods can threaten a company’s copyright exclusivity because of their status as derivative works. [4] Section 106 of the Copyright Act grants copyright holders an exclusive right to make or license derivative works based upon a previously copyrighted work. [11]

Derivative Work

Derivative Work Cease and Desist Blogging Litigation

Let’s Go Hazy: Making Sense of Fair Use After Warhol

MAY 22, 2023

Alas, Campbell’s discontinued Pepper Pot in 2010. In an aside that no doubt made the MPAA smile, the Court also confirmed that unauthorized derivative works like book-to-film adaptations won’t pass muster under the first fair use inquiry merely because they have a different aesthetic than the works they borrow.

Fair Use

Fair Use Licensing Copying Artwork

With Friends Like These: Copyright Implications Of Novelists Drawing Inspiration From The Real Lives They Cross

LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In Larson, Dorland claimed copyright in a 381-word letter posted to Facebook and further asserted that, therefore, each of the three versions of Larson’s The Kindest was a derivative work in which Dorland, therefore, owned the copyright because her letter and the later Larson works were substantially similar.

AN ARGUMENT FOR EMBRACING THE LEGALITY OF CROWDFUNDED GAME MODS

Let’s Go Hazy: Making Sense of Fair Use After Warhol

With Friends Like These: Copyright Implications Of Novelists Drawing Inspiration From The Real Lives They Cross

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