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The Battle Over Poker NFTs

Plagiarism Today

” The case raises questions of fair use and whether the new paintings were transformative enough to be non-infringing or if they were simply derivative works. In 2009, the Associated Press filed a lawsuit against artist Shepherd Fairey over the famous Obama “Hope” poster that he designed.

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U.S. Supreme Court Fixes Ninth Circuit’s Test for Mistakes in Copyright Registrations—Unicolors v. H&M (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Unicolors’s business model is to create artwork, copyright it, print the artwork on fabric, and market the designed fabrics to garment manufacturers.” A Google search turns up three different pairs of designs with differing degrees of similarity. b)(4)(i)(A) (2011). Factual and Procedural Background. 3d 1194 , 1196 (9th Cir.

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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. 8] 2011(47) PTC 494(Del) Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp The post Evolution of Tests of Creativity in Copyrights first appeared on IPLF. 1] [1916] 2 Ch 601. [2]

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13 Spooky Copyright Cases, Just in Time for Halloween

Copyright Lately

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. The humanized skeleton figure on the right is Curly, a character designed for Scholastic’s popular “Goosebumps” series of books.

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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. 2d 613 (S.D.N.Y.

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