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Fair Use for Documentaries in US Copyright Law: Brown v Netflix

Kluwer Copyright Blog

To strengthen further its finding, the Second Circuit also cited its own 2015 ruling in Authors Guild v. As pointed out by Keith Aoki, James Boyle and Jennifer Jenkins in Bound by Law? Tales from the Public Domain , “documentaries are records of our culture. Dr. Seuss Enters., 3d 497, 512, S.D.N.Y. Google, Inc.

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Elon Musk’s Gifts to Web Scrapers (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

. — For the claims related to illegal selling of scraped data, the court dismissed those because they were preempted by copyright. I did a deep dive on this topic in December , but the general gist of it is that copyright law preempts state law claims if the state-law claims come within the general scope of copyright.

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Is it possible to protect AI-generated works with copyright? According to the US Copyright Office, no.

CopyrightsWorld

” On May 27, 2020, Thaler filed a second appeal, arguing that AI artworks should be copyrightable because it would “advance the fundamental aims of copyright law, including the constitutional foundation for copyright protection.” ” In the United States, only human creators have copyright.

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Can AI-generated works be protected by copyright? No, according to US Copyright Office.

CopyrightsWorld

” On May 27, 2020, Thaler filed a second appeal, arguing that AI artworks should be copyrightable because it would “advance the fundamental aims of copyright law, including the constitutional foundation for copyright protection.” ” In the United States, only human creators have copyright.

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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. GSPR (2021) 131 Zhaoxia Deng, Illegal To Play?

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European Copyright Society letter to Commissioner Breton on a future agenda in the field of copyright law

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The members of the European Copyright Society (ECS ) have recently sent a letter to Mr. Thierry Breton ( Commissioner for Internal Market , European Commission ) outlining their view of what should be the priorities for a f uture agenda in the field of copyright law.

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WIPIP Session 8 (copyright)

43(B)log

Copyright Law Why are we so sure facts are excluded from the statute when the statute doesn’t use that word and uses a lot of other words. Karp says that librarians attack (c) protection for authors; on information, he says, a copyright doesn’t restrain information, b/c it doesn’t protect facts or ideas, only expression.