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Prince, Prince, Prints: Will the Supreme Court Revisit Fair Use?

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9] In reaching that determination, the court relied chiefly on the Second Circuit’s 2013 decision in Cariou v. Prince [10] (no relation), in which the Second Circuit rejected the premise that a secondary work must comment on the original to be sufficiently “transformative” to qualify as fair use. 5 (quoting Google , 141 S.

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Evolution of Tests of Creativity in Copyrights

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Originality is the quality that distinguishes produced or invented works from copies, clones, forgeries, or derivative works by being new or novel. Here, merely automated and mechanical work that lacks originality is also protected by the said copyright doctrine. A publishing company called Feist Publications Inc.

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13 Spooky Copyright Cases, Just in Time for Halloween

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“The Conjuring” (2013). It found that because Harvey had not renewed the copyrights on the comics featuring the character that later developed into Fatso, the depictions of the character relied on by Harvey had fallen into the public domain. The lawsuit, Brittle v. Warner Bros. The Ghostly Trio.

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