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Chinaware Designs to Needlepoint Patterns: Problems Getting Permission

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You don't need permission for designs produced before 1928 as they are in the public domain. And you don't need permission if the works were produced between 1963 and March 1989 and they did not include a copyright notice. In summary, you only need to be concerned about 1963 - 1989 designs with copyright notices.

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The United States Copyright Office Notice of Inquiry on AI: A Quick Take

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Significant amounts of content are also available through the public domain. 2015) , and held that copies made and used for a specific purpose involving snippets would likely fall under fair use. relating to use of copyrighted content for the development of AI systems. Google, Inc. 3d 132 (2d Cir.

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A Preliminary Analysis of Trump’s Copyright Lawsuit Over Interview Recordings (Trump v. Simon & Schuster) (Guest Blog Post)

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If the work was published with proper copyright notice, it received a federal statutory copyright. If the work was published without proper copyright notice, the work entered the public domain. He should not be able to enjoin publication of the interviews as a copyright violation.

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