Copyright Lately

MAY 1, 2023

billion in the first quarter of 2023 , largely driven by successful releases from Morgan Wallen, Taylor Swift, and the aforementioned Drake. sophisticated generative AI that’s enabled by large language models, which trains on our intellectual property, violates copyright law in several ways. year over year to $2.71

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 7, 2023

1258, (2023). Warhol created these silkscreens from a photograph of Prince taken by Lynn Goldsmith, who claimed copyright infringement when the Warhol estate licensed Orange Prince to Conde Nast after Prince’s passing in 2016 to illustrate an article about Prince’s life and music. Goldsmith , 598 S. ” Id. ” Id.

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IP Intelligence

JUNE 6, 2023

1258, (2023). Warhol created these silkscreens from a photograph of Prince taken by Lynn Goldsmith, who claimed copyright infringement when the Warhol estate licensed Orange Prince to Conde Nast after Prince’s passing in 2016 to illustrate an article about Prince’s life and music. See Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The question then arises as to whether the fiction writer alone owns the copyright to work drawn in whole or part from another’s writings or experience. Dorland counterclaimed for copyright infringement, claiming that Larson’s use of Dorland’s letter was a violation of intellectual property law.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa Recently, the Ninth Circuit reaffirmed what has become known as the “server test”: in order to be held directly liable for violating the public display right, the alleged infringer must have a fixed “copy” of the work stored on a server in its possession or control. Instagram, LLC , 2023 WL 4554649 (9th Cir.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

21-869 (May 18, 2023). Legal Background: Copyright and Derivative Works Copyright law protects original works of authorship, including “pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works,” 17 U.S.C. For obvious reasons, the copyright in a photograph does not include the right to publicly perform the copyrighted work.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JUNE 5, 2023

On May 18, 2023, the United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of famed rock photographer Lynn Goldsmith against the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.’s Goldsmith , 598 U.S. _ (2023). [2] s (AWF), [1] in a long-awaited decision impacting fair use under Section 107(1) of the Copyright Act. 2] Slip op. 3] Slip op.

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 11, 2023

2023-6 on August 30, 2023, calling for comments from interested parties addressing dozens of questions. The Office received roughly 10,000 comments on October 30, 2023. More specifically, we recognize the usefulness of examining intellectual property issues through the lenses of competition and consumer protection.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 5, 2023

598 U.S. _ (2023) (Citations are to the Slip Opinion (“Slip Op.”)). 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.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 18, 2023

Vanity Fair magazine had hired Warhol to make the illustration; it was to accompany an article about Prince in the magazine’s November 1984 issue. ” Turns out – in addition to the Vanity Fair illustration – Warhol made a series of 16 additional works derived from Goldsmith’s photo.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

Described as “an intellectual property pioneer and modern legal historian” , his untimely death in January 2022 was a blow for the academic community. Ginsburg’s lecture took place on 3 May 2023. The transparency obligation set by Article 19 enables authors to know whether their remuneration is disproportionate.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 16, 2023

In the EU, a crucial legal issue is whether using in-copyright works to train generative AI models is copyright infringement or falls under existing text and data mining (TDM) exceptions in the Copyright in Digital Single Market (CDSM) Directive. ” 3) How to Distinguish Transformative Fair Uses From Infringing Derivative Works?

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 5, 2023

On May 18, 2023, the United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of famed rock photographer Lynn Goldsmith against the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.’s Goldsmith , 598 U.S. _ (2023). [2] ’s (AWF), [1] in a long-awaited decision impacting fair use under Section 107(1) of the Copyright Act. 2] Slip op.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 26, 2023

On May 18, 2023, the United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of famed rock photographer Lynn Goldsmith against the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.’s Goldsmith , 598 U.S. _ (2023). [2] ’s (AWF), [1] in a long-awaited decision impacting fair use under Section 107(1) of the Copyright Act. 2] Slip op.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 23, 2023

.” From ongoing debates about the human element (or requirement) of authorship to debates over what constitutes a transformative work to the gauntlet laid down in footnote 2 of Justice Kagan’s dissent in the Supreme Court’s May 18, 2023 decision in Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, Inc., Google] , 804 F.3d

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 10, 2024

But, in this space, headlines are usually a source of inspiration (so we can write about intellectual property issues that may interest more than just IP attorneys), and titles a bit of fun (so we can draw in those looking for a bit of lightness amid more serious legal analysis). What did those papers say? ’” Id.

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