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Court Rules Lego Creation Based on Religious Texts is Eligible for Copyright Protection

The IP Law Blog

21, 2023) (Hector Gonzalez), the District Court for the Eastern District of New York granted the plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment regarding the validity of its copyright. The plaintiff also consulted with various rabbis as part of the design process for the Second Holy Temple Product. In JBrick, LLC v. Chazak Kinder, Inc.

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Court Rules Lego Creation Based on Religious Texts is Eligible for Copyright Protection

LexBlog IP

21, 2023) (Hector Gonzalez), the District Court for the Eastern District of New York granted the plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment regarding the validity of its copyright. The plaintiff also consulted with various rabbis as part of the design process for the Second Holy Temple Product. In JBrick, LLC v. Chazak Kinder, Inc.

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Evolution of Tests of Creativity in Copyrights

IP and Legal Filings

Originality is the quality that distinguishes produced or invented works from copies, clones, forgeries, or derivative works by being new or novel. Here, merely automated and mechanical work that lacks originality is also protected by the said copyright doctrine. A publishing company called Feist Publications Inc.

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HULM Entertainment v.  Fantasy Sports: Reanalysing Originality, Idea-Expression Dichotomy and Copyrightability of GUIs

SpicyIP

years after the initial injunction, the SB proceeded to vacate this interim injunction on October 17 2023 , and also undertook a detailed discussion on the question of copyrightability of GUIs. Protection of GUIs have often been discussed in the context of Designs and a Calcutta High Court judgement in Ust Global (Singapore) Pte Ltd v.

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The Good Get: Interviews, The Predicates Of Copyright Ownership, & Divorcing Subjects From Owning Copyright Content

LexBlog IP

On December 6, 2023, Bob Woodward and other defendants moved to dismiss claims brought against them by former President Donald J. Trump Woodward’s publication, The Trump Tapes: Bob Woodward’s Twenty Interviews with President Donald Trump, an audio-book also released in print. is] that works produced for the U.S.

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Maybe Duct Tape Can’t Fix Everything: Slippery Standards As Copyright Goes Bananas

LexBlog IP

.” 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., Morford , at 11.

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A Preliminary Analysis of Trump’s Copyright Lawsuit Over Interview Recordings (Trump v. Simon & Schuster) (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

If the work was published with proper copyright notice, it received a federal statutory copyright. If the work was published without proper copyright notice, the work entered the public domain. If so, his interview responses are in the public domain and can be freely published without any royalties to Trump.

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