LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

Yesterday, the Supreme Court held 7-2 that a specific use of Andy Warhol’s “Orange Prince” silk screen—based on a copyrighted photograph of Prince—was not fair use. The first factor did not apply to Warhol’s image as published in Condé Nast in 2016, so that specific use was not fair use.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

1] That decision shook the art world, as it seems to dramatically narrow the scope of the fair use doctrine, and raises doubts about the lawfulness of many existing works. [2] It found that all four fair use factors weighed against fair use. [12] Goldsmith counterclaimed for copyright infringement.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The United States Court of Appeal for the Second Circuit ruled that the use of Lynn Goldsmith’s 1981 photograph was not fair use by Andy Warhol’s image of a musical artist. The present case deals in the creation of the work which has a prior material, whereby the dispute is between a creator’s creativity and creator’s control.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 7, 2023

A pair of copyright decisions issued in May, one involving the appropriation artist Richard Prince [1] and the other involving works portraying the musician known as Prince, explore and expand on the “fair use” defense to copyright infringement. On May 11, the U.S. 2] A week later, the U.S. 3] Graham v.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 17, 2024

is one of the most interesting cases in history to rely on a fair use defense, arguing that the alleged infringement qualifies as a parody. ” 2 Live Crew had previously sought to license the track from Acuff-Rose to be used as a parody; Acuff-Rose refused and 2 Live Crew used it anyway. .” Campbell v.

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Velocity of Content

AUGUST 9, 2022

Warhol, however, did not stop with that one modified image; instead, he developed a series of sixteen different versions using the Goldsmith photograph, none of which was covered by the Vanity Fair license. First, there are not that many Supreme Court cases that address fair use. The case is important for several reasons.

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IP Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2023

Sy Damle, (2016-2018 General Counsel) testified that “the training of AI models will generally fall within the established bounds of fair use.” (S. The district court agreed, but was reversed by the Second Circuit, which found the degree of new expression insufficient to justify a finding of fair use. 1258, (2023).

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

However, Andy Warhol would go on to create 15 additional works using the Goldsmith photograph, now known as the artist’s “Prince Series.” 1] The Southern District of New York granted summary judgment to AWF on its claim of fair use, but the Second Circuit Court of Appeals reversed.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

” 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. Three years later, she licensed one of those photos of Vanity Fair who, with permission, commissioned a new work based on it by Andy Warhol.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

Supreme Court affirmed the Second Circuit’s ruling that the reproduction of Andy Warhol’s Orange Prince on the cover of a magazine tribute was not a fair use of Lynn Goldsmith’s photo of the singer-songwriter Prince, on which the Warhol portrait was based. By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa By a 7-2 vote, the U.S. Goldsmith , No. 569 (1994).

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LexBlog IP

MAY 31, 2023

The Court held that the first factor of the copyright fair use test favored respondent photographer, Lynn Goldsmith, rather than petitioner, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (“AWF”). Goldsmith was unaware of these additional works. for Visual Arts, Inc. Goldsmith counterclaimed for copyright infringement.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JUNE 5, 2023

s (AWF), [1] in a long-awaited decision impacting fair use under Section 107(1) of the Copyright Act. Goldsmith and, as a result, did not constitute fair use. [2] Unbeknownst to Goldsmith, Warhol also created fifteen other works based on the photograph, including Orange Prince.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 7, 2023

Sy Damle, (2016-2018 General Counsel) testified that “the training of AI models will generally fall within the established bounds of fair use.” The district court agreed, but was reversed by the Second Circuit, which found the degree of new expression insufficient to justify a finding of fair use.

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IP Intelligence

JUNE 6, 2023

Sy Damle, (2016-2018 General Counsel) testified that “the training of AI models will generally fall within the established bounds of fair use.” (S. The district court agreed, but was reversed by the Second Circuit, which found the degree of new expression insufficient to justify a finding of fair use. 1258, (2023).

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JIPL Online

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Mods are beneficial for the video game industry, [3] but mods can threaten a company’s copyright exclusivity because of their status as derivative works. [4] Section 106 of the Copyright Act grants copyright holders an exclusive right to make or license derivative works based upon a previously copyrighted work. [11]

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LexBlog IP

MAY 18, 2023

.” Turns out – in addition to the Vanity Fair illustration – Warhol made a series of 16 additional works derived from Goldsmith’s photo. When Prince died in 2016, Vanity Fair’s parent company (Condé Nast) purchased a license from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Zahr Said, Shotgun Damages in Copyright Multipliers used to ratchet up damages. Before 2016, appeared to be that these multipliers were impermissible punitive damages. In 2016, Leonard v. Cited over 130 times since then—cottage industry using scarcity, exclusivity, and quality multipliers; tons of default judgments.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 5, 2023

’s (AWF), [1] in a long-awaited decision impacting fair use under Section 107(1) of the Copyright Act. Goldsmith and, as a result, did not constitute fair use. [2] Unbeknownst to Goldsmith, Warhol also created fifteen other works based on the photograph, including Orange Prince.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 26, 2023

’s (AWF), [1] in a long-awaited decision impacting fair use under Section 107(1) of the Copyright Act. Goldsmith and, as a result, did not constitute fair use. [2] Unbeknownst to Goldsmith, Warhol also created fifteen other works based on the photograph, including Orange Prince.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 5, 2023

Warhol and his Foundation’s claim of fair use lost. The case began after Prince died in 2016, when Vanity Fair magazine’s parent company, Condé Nast, published a special commemorative magazine celebrating his life. ” The license provided that the use would be for “one time” only.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 1, 2023

She would create a dataset of sound files consisting of Drake acapella vocals (stripped from the music tracks using a vocal separator) and run the data through software used to train the voice model. ” VMG Salsoul, LLC v. Ciccone , 824 F.3d 3d 871, 888 (9th Cir.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 7, 2023

In 2016, Condé Nast acquired a license from the Warhol Foundation to use the Prince Series as illustrations for a new magazine. Thus, guided by the principle of equality, copyright operates as a spectrum of creativity, where the level of protection granted to a work corresponds to its level of originality. [2]

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The copyright claims came down to a fair use analysis, something that has occupied discussions by this poster before. ” With a mixed bag present on the substantial similarity analysis, the District Court moved on to looking at fair use itself. .” Let’s see why.

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JIPL Online

APRIL 9, 2021

On one hand, those who view intellectual property rights as a limited monopoly would suggest that even derivative use of the content in a meme is infringement on the rights holder’s interest. Keller, Recognizing the Derivative Works Right as a Moral Right: A Case Comparison and Proposal , 63 Case W. 139 (2016). [ix]

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

In 2016, Time “embedded” one of Brauer’s Instagram posts, featuring one of his photos of Hilary Clinton, in its entirety (preserving his username or “handle”, his caption, and his links and hashtags). The Ninth Circuit ultimately ruled, however, that making and displaying thumbnail images to facilitate an image search engine was a fair use.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Goldsmith SCOTUS understood the “use” to be the foundation’s commercial licensing. But licensing is neither a © use nor an act of infringement. Incoherent to raise/evaluate fair use as to an act that wasn’t a use or infringement. Glynn Lunney, Transforming Fair Use. Licensing is not found in 106.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 25, 2021

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. In 2016, author Gerald Brittle alleged that the Warner Bros. Conjuring up a Copyright Case.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The lawsuit involves sound recordings of 19 interviews that then-President Trump voluntarily gave to Woodward between December 2019 and August 2020, plus one interview from 2016 (when Trump was still a candidate). The Second Circuit nonetheless held that the published quotations were a fair use. complaint filed Jan.

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