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CCC Welcomes Panel of Curriculum and Copyright Experts to Explore Why High-Quality Content Matters in K-12

Velocity of Content

This session will also look at the challenges of using synthetic text, teacher-created materials and freely available resources on the web, as well as copyright and licensing considerations for the use of copyrighted content in curriculum and instruction.

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Prince, Prince, Prints: Will the Supreme Court Revisit Fair Use?

LexBlog IP

A few years later, in 1984, Goldsmith’s agency, which had retained the rights to those images, licensed one of them to Vanity Fair for use in an article called “Purple Fame.” That factor asks “whether, if the challenged use becomes widespread, it will adversely affect the potential market for the copyrighted work.” [20]

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Book review: Copyright, Creativity and Big Media

The IPKat

Bowrey argues that the rise in availability and popularity of crime, mystery and detective stories was sponsored by changes to copyright commercialisation practices, which facilitated the full potential of modern copyright law to be exploited internationally. Chapter 6, ‘Why does a gramophone maker deserve a copyright?

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Andy Warhol, Prince, and the First Amendment: U.S. Supreme Court Grants Review of Questions Concerning “Fair Use” Under Copyright Act

LexBlog IP

Vanity Fair licensed one of Goldsmith’s Prince photographs to use in a Vanity Fair article. When Goldsmith became aware of the Vanity Fair cover image, she informed the Foundation’s director of licensing that she believed the cover infringed her copyright. In 1984, Prince released Purple Rain and his popularity exploded.

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Stop, thief! How to win big in a copyright infringement case

Art Law Journal

Actual damages represent the money that would have been received if the artist had sold or licensed it to the infringer. Your fee for licensing work to a blog is $400, so the actual damage is the loss of that licensing fee. To illustrate this concept, let’s continue with the infringement scenario discussed earlier.

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Learning Graphic Design: Creative Hobby to Creative Career

Art Law Journal

From license plates to subway maps, from book covers to printed duvet covers, from bottles of lotion to wine. Specializations can include advertising/marketing campaign design, branding/identity design, editorial/print design, environmental design, motion design, and packaging design. No matter where you look, graphic design is there.

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"Aren’t we still, basically, in the dark?" (UPDATED 3X)

The Art Law Blog

With unique art works, the public interest is more likely to outweigh any commercial aspect and there is unlikely to be market substitution. UPDATE 3: Brian Frye : "I hear Steiner's argument, but disagree that the decision is correct. In my opinion all that should matter is that the photo and the paintings aren't substitutes."