Remove Advertising Remove Copying Remove Copyright Infringement Remove Magazine
article thumbnail

Copyright Infringement by Andy Warhol in his Celebrity Silkscreen Series

IPilogue

Goldsmith said she was not aware of Warhol’s work until Tribute magazine featured the image, without crediting her, when Prince passed away in 2016. This is not the first time Andy Warhol was sued for IP infringement. The series was originally commissioned by Vanity Fair after it bought the license of the photo portrait from Goldsmith.

article thumbnail

Telegram Piracy: Police Target 545 Channels & Eight Suspected Admins

TorrentFreak

The regulator said that Telegram and WhatsApp groups were mass distributing PDF copies of newspapers and periodicals on a daily basis. GdF describes them as the suspected administrators of channels linked to criminal copyright infringement offenses. The authorities listened and dozens of channels were blocked. .

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Use of Warhol’s Prince Image Found Not to Be Sufficiently Transformative for Fair Use 

LexBlog IP

Goldsmith was whether or not Warhol’s use of Goldsmith’s photograph as a reference and departure point for the creation of an image of Prince constituted fair use or copyright infringement under U.S. copyright law. copyright law. Applying a new lens on how to view the purpose of a derivative work under U.S.

article thumbnail

The Digital Age of Journalism: My Placement at “The Globe and Mail”

IPilogue

The newspaper’s print and digital formats reach over 6 million readers every week, with Report on Business magazine reaching over 2.5 IP law in publishing, especially at The Globe – who is known for being an early provider of digital media and device-agnostic content delivery – goes far beyond copyright infringement and litigation.

article thumbnail

Too Rusty For Krusty–Nickelodeon v. Rusty Krab Restaurant (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Remember the Fifth Circuit case from 2018 holding that a real restaurant’s name could infringe trademark rights in the name of a fictional restaurant from the TV show SpongeBob SquarePants, the Krusty Krab? The court then moves on to consider Viacom’s copyright infringement claim.

article thumbnail

Copyright Protection of Modern Art

IP and Legal Filings

Cooper case, a work does not have to be entirely unique in order to be protected by copyright; rather, there needs to be some effort put into it and it cannot be a carbon copy of another person’s work. The lack of organisation and ambiguity make the protection problematic even if the work is copyrighted. Corel Corp.

Art 52
article thumbnail

SpicyIP Weekly Review (November 8-November 15)

SpicyIP

The High Court also noted that merely because the impugned mark’s advertisement occurred in Delhi, the courts of Delhi will not become eligible to adjudicate on the dispute. The Defendant was served with a copy of summons and it did appear in one of the hearings, but later stopped, thus causing the matter to proceed ex-parte.

Trademark 105