Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 19, 2023

Specifically, a group called Spice DAO purchased an NFT displaying a copy of filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky’s ‘Dune’ for $3 million, assuming it would grant them the ability to produce derivative works, such as an animated Dune series.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 3, 2023

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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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Concerned about the effect the book would have on Twain’s reputation, publisher Harper & Brothers and his daughter Clara Clemens filed a lawsuit to stop further publication of “Jap Herron.” affirmed the district court’s grant of summary judgment for the advertisers. The Ghostly Trio. McDonald’s Corp.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 10, 2024

is] that works produced for the U.S. Government by its officers and employees should not be subject to copyright” and fall “in the public domain.” “The basic premise of [S]ection 105.[is] ” H.R. 94-1476 at 58 (1976); see also Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 140 S. 1498, 1509-10 (2020).

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