IPilogue
NOVEMBER 24, 2022
However, with the convenience of streaming music through these digital platforms, the music industry has also had to deal with a wide range of copyright issues, including online copyright infringement. In 2017, music publishing company Wixen also filed a lawsuit against Spotify USA, seeking $1.6
IP and Legal Filings
JUNE 12, 2023
In addition to the 3-condition test, an essential element involved, in relation to parody, is the ‘Intent’ It has been clearly established that making parodies of original work with a motive or intent to exploit it commercially or ride on its goodwill to derive profits shall constitute copyright infringement.
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IPilogue
MAY 26, 2022
Raenelle Manning is an IPilogue Writer and a 2L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Moten, a Texas pastor, filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against rapper Kanye West for incorporating a sample recording of his religious sermon into one of his songs. On May 3, 2022, Bishop David P.
IPilogue
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Is there such a thing as “inducing” copyright infringement? One must of course first start with the Copyright Act itself and deal with what the Supreme Court also said in Compo (above): “Mr Hughes … put it very well when he said that copyright law is neither tort law nor property law in classification, but is statutory law.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Like most copyright systems, French copyright law does not leave much room for the freedom of authors of transformative graphic works (also called “derivative works”). Three interesting cases on derivative works, two involving Jeff Koons and one Tintin, have recently put French copyright law in the international spotlight (e.g.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
JUNE 30, 2021
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.
Patently-O
AUGUST 30, 2022
Contract not Copyright: Genius does not hold the copyright to the lyrics and so has no copyright infringement claim. Rub, Copyright Survives: Rethinking the Copyright-Contract Conflict , 103 Va. 1141, 1181 (2017). Genius sued. Briefs from Google and LyricFind are due September 8, 2022.
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