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Copyright Infringement in edited photographs

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

This act is often done without the prior consent or permission of the copyright holder or the photographer of the picture. Thus, the question arises if such use attracts copyright infringement. If the photo taken without any prior consent is edited and used for a commercial benefit, then it might attract copyright infringement.

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Mojang Continues Crackdown on Minecraft ‘Pirates’

TorrentFreak

In the years following its initial release in 2011, Minecraft captured a truly massive audience. According to Mojang, these are all copyright infringing, even though they may not all use copyrighted content directly. However, that doesn’t completely stop the problem.

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Who Owns the Copyright in AI-Generated Art?

Intepat

AI-generated art represents a fusion of human ingenuity in crafting algorithms and the machine’s ability to produce artworks autonomously. To delve deeper into the question of ownership, we need to grasp the traditional concept of copyright. Copyright laws are designed to safeguard the rights of creators.

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Fair Use for Documentaries in US Copyright Law: Brown v Netflix

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Chapman (‘plaintiffs’) collectively filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Netflix, Amazon, and Apple (‘defendants’), claiming that the defendants had directly and indirectly infringed their copyright over the song “ Fish Sticks n’ Tater Tots ” by using it in their documentary titled ‘Burlesque’ ( Brown v.

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“Not My Work”: When Artists Dispute Authorship

LexBlog IP

In 2011, a friend noticed the signature on the painting and told Fletcher that it was probably created by a renowned artist named Peter Doig given the similarity of their names. The painting was created in 1976 by an inmate at Thunder Bay Correctional Center (TBCC), the prison in Ontario, Canada where Robert Fletcher worked.

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Is that Bird A Cardinal or a Scarlet Tanager? Who Cares. The U.S. Supreme Court Weighs in on Copyright Infringement and the Issue of Mistake

The IP Law Blog

Unicolors is the owner of copyrights in various fabric designs, including a 2011 copyright registration that consisted of 31 separate designs. If so, Justice Breyer continued, does that mistake even matter for purposes of determining whether Unicolor should prevail on its copyright infringement claim.

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Is Generative AI Fair Use of Copyright Works? NYT v. OpenAI

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In order to train their technologies, should AI companies be allowed to use works under copyright protection without consent? The lawsuits brought by the owners of such works, including artworks in the case of image-generators and journalism in the NYT case, claim that this should not be allowed. Fair Use Precedent? 106A of the U.S.

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