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The Battle Over Poker NFTs

Plagiarism Today

I understand a lot of you may be upset that I saw a photo on social media and loved it enough to imitate it in a very different style. ” 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.

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2021 Internet Law Year-in-Review

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

First, governments can never successfully operate a social media service. Of course, mobs, riots, rebellions, pogroms, lynchings, and other coordinated killings have taken place throughout human history, well before social media existed. social media has played an outsized role in finding and prosecuting the insurrection.

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Why SNL’s “Muppets” Parody Had Even the Media Fooled

Copyright Lately

And putting aside its pure entertainment value, the sketch also raises some interesting questions about just how much of an original work may be taken before parodic fair use crosses the line into copyright infringement. Jason Segel and the Muppets on SNL (2011). The Supreme Court’s seminal fair use decision, Campbell v.

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2022 Internet Law Year-in-Review

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

On the heels of the mandatory editorial transparency provisions in Florida and Texas’ social media censorship laws, the California legislature thought it could one-up those states by passing a law with at least 161 different disclosure requirements. The opinion upheld every aspect of Texas’ social media censorship law.

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De Minimis & Copyright Infringement : Where To Draw The Line?

IP and Legal Filings

De minimis in copyright can be used for different reasons such as for fair use analysis, substantial similarity analysis [7] , among its other such uses. Chintamani Rao and Ors, 2011 SCC OnLine Del 4712. Chintamani Rao and Ors, 2011 SCC OnLine Del 4712. [4] Viacom 18 Motion Picture & Ors [6].,

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Takedown Services Under Copyright Law

IP and Legal Filings

Temporary or incidental storage of work or performance to provide electronic links, access, or integration, where the owner has not expressly prohibited such links, access, or integration, falls under the ambit of fair use of copyright, according to Section 52(1)(c) of the Indian Copyright Act, 1957.

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13 Spooky Copyright Cases, Just in Time for Halloween

Copyright Lately

The judge rejected BMG’s fair use defense, holding that the defendants took more elements from the “Nightmare on Elm” street films than they needed to accomplish any parodic purpose. “The Cabin in the Woods” (2011). Beyond that, the overall stories were quite different. Happy Halloween!

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