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Was Batman a Plagiarism?

Plagiarism Today

A recent article by Austin Mace at Screenrant highlights comments made decades ago by Batman co-creator Bill Finger regarding Batman’s first appearance in Detective Comics #27, published in May 1939. . Through our modern lens, this kind of copying can seem insane. But, it didn’t happen in 2022. It happened in 1939.

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The Battle Lines Over AI Art

Plagiarism Today

pic.twitter.com/vjn1IdJcsL — Genel Jumalon Collect-A-Con Kansas City (@GenelJumalon) August 30, 2022. But even as AI works rack up awards, they are finding themselves banned from an increasing number of spaces. Many artists have found their work in the libraries of different AI systems and have expressed anger over it.

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Copyright and Transformative Fair Use

Patently-O

On October 12, 2022, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the fair use copyright case of Andy Warhol Foundation, Inc. 21-869 (2022). Although Andy Warhol is dead, his art, legacy, copyrights, and potential copy-wrongs live on. Vanity Fair had commissioned Warhol to make an illustration for its 1984 article on Prince.

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Supreme Court Finds Warhol’s Commercial Licensing of “Orange Prince” to Vanity Fair Is Not Fair Use and Infringes Goldsmith’s Famed Rock Photo

Intellectual Property Law Blog

2] The Court’s decision affirmed the ruling of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, which held that the Warhol work was derivative of the original, and noted that “the new expression may be relevant to whether a copying use has a sufficiently distinct purpose or character” but that factor was not dispositive by itself. [3]

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How to Avoid Pitfalls on the Way to Decentralized Disney

Copyright Lately

The first thing that’s important to understand is that buying a copy of a creative work, even if it happens to the only copy in existence, doesn’t give you any copyright interest in the work. So, if you buy a copy of “Dune,” you can read it. Want to Create New Derivative Works?

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The clash of artistic rights: Warhol, Goldsmith, and the boundaries of copyright in Brazil and in the U.S.

Kluwer Copyright Blog

This is explicitly stated in Article 5, XXVII, of the Brazilian Constitution, and Article 1, Section 8, of the United States Constitution. 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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Does Transformative Matter? No, At Least Where Use Is Commercial

LexBlog IP

Vanity Fair commissioned Warhol to create the illustration, and Warhol used Goldsmith’s licensed photo to create a purple silkscreen portrait of Prince, which appeared with an article about Prince in Vanity Fair ’s November 1984 issue. ” Brief For Petitioner at 19 (June 10, 2022). ” Id. ” Id. ” Id.