2018 Copyright Law Fair Use Settlement 
Plagiarism Today
AUGUST 18, 2021
First off today, Joseph Menn at Reuters reports that, despite a recent settlement, Apple has appealed a lower court decision in its ongoing lawsuit against the security firm Corellium. Apple sued the company, alleging that it violated both their copyright and their rights under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
LexBlog IP
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
Meme Culture Meets Copyright Law: A Guide for Businesses & Creators Memes, often humorous media fragments that spread rapidly through online sharing, are a global phenomenon that have made their way into mainstream culture. Table of Contents: Fair Use Under the Copyright Act How much risk are we talking here?
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Copyright Lately
AUGUST 22, 2021
Back in May, I wrote about an overzealous copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Rachel Dolezal , the woman best known for mispresenting her racial background. The complaint raised concerns that Dolezal was using copyright law to purge the historical record of her controversial past, while seeking substantial monetary damages in the process.
TorrentFreak
MAY 16, 2022
McFree utilized copyrighted material owned by Watch Tower in his productions, something that gave the religious group a leverage point to shut him down. In 2018, Watch Tower filed an application for a DMCA subpoena to compel YouTube/Google to hand over his details. Copyright battles can be one-sided affairs.
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. This has important implications for the doctrine of fair use.
JIPL Online
APRIL 9, 2021
ii] Existing copyright law is ineffective in its application to new forms of digital media. 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. Minc Law (Sept. 277 (2020). [iv]
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
MARCH 29, 2023
At an initial conference on January 23, 2023, the parties reached a settlement and asked to dismiss the claim. On June 4, 2018, Oppenheimer found his image on Prutton’s website. The claim says hat infringement is ongoing from 2018-present, even though the photo was removed in 2019. It seems like it did.
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