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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. The humanized skeleton figure on the left is Skully, which artist and entrepreneur Gregory Spiers first conceived while designing a T-shirt for the Lithuanian Olympic basketball team.

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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. It was written with a distinct style and message.

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A Preliminary Analysis of Trump’s Copyright Lawsuit Over Interview Recordings (Trump v. Simon & Schuster) (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

There is no defined segregation, either by design or by implication of any of plaintiff’s expressions of his thoughts and opinions on the subjects discussed which would aid in identifying plaintiff’s purported copyrighted material. 2011), aff’d , 283 F.3d In Random House, Inc. Rosetta Books, LLC , 150 F.

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