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Metadata Ruling Gives YouTube a Timely Boost in Content ID Lawsuit

TorrentFreak

Code § 1202 prohibits the intentional removal of CMI without obtaining permission from the copyright owner, when it is known that will “induce, enable, facilitate, or conceal an infringement.” Between 2013 and 2017, Elias took photographs of hotels and licensed their owning companies to use them in promotional activities.

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

LexBlog IP

A few years later, in 1984, Goldsmith’s agency, which had retained the rights to those images, licensed one of them to Vanity Fair for use in an article called “Purple Fame.” Goldsmith counterclaimed for copyright infringement. Vanity Fair , in turn, commissioned Warhol to make a silkscreen using Goldsmith’s photograph.

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Copyrightability Of Players’ Creation In The Gaming Regime

IP and Legal Filings

It is to be made sufficiently clear that the aforementioned creations ought to be original and independent, rather than a slightly altered version of the creation already in the public domain, to instill looking into the prospects of copyrightability. Re-Examining The Copyright Ownership Of Player Created Content, GNLU L.

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Should Copyright Preemption Moot Anti-Scraping TOS Terms? (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

. — One logical starting point to tell the history of copyright preemption of contracts is to begin with ProCD v. The Second Circuit now takes “a restrictive view” of the extra elements that would make a contract claim qualitatively different from copyright, and therefore not subject to preemption. “[W]e Briarpatch, 373 F.3d

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Dastar prevents misrepresentation of source of IP from being material

43(B)log

Restellini alleged copyright infringement and related claims in connection with WPI’s digitization of certain material about the artist Amodeo Modigliani. WPI counterclaimed against Restellini and third-party Institut Restellini SAS – Documentation Centre alleging copyright infringement and false advertising.

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Time for the 12 O'Clock Boyz to go: court shuts down (c)/TM lawsuit against documentary & feature film about Baltimore bikers

43(B)log

Nathan directed the allegedly infringing 2013 Documentary, which “tells the story of Pug, a thirteen-year-old child who wants to be a ‘12 O’Clock Boy,’ just like [he] has repeatedly watched in [the 2001 and 2003 Documentaries].” Defendants' 2013 documentary Both parties’ works are “docu-fiction” set in Baltimore. Nathan, F.Supp.3d