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Fair Use: Yes or No?

Dear Rich IP Blog

Trick photograph of man with two heads (1901) Dear Rich: I have a new, unique book soon to be published about judging the quality of art. Every image in the book, from ancient to contemporary art, is aesthetically critiqued, often with diagrams. From everything I've researched, all the images in the book should come under fair use.

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First duel between NFTs and copyright before the Spanish courts: NFTs 1 – Authors 0

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The rise in popularity of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) has attracted a great deal of attention from copyright practitioners and aficionados. Basically, because an NFT is an encoded digital metadata file of a copy of a work that can be copyright protected. And why is that? an exploitation that caused them no harm).

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Using AI Artwork to Avoid Copyright Infringement

Copyright Lately

AI-generated art isn’t perfect, but it’s become a viable option for set decor on motion pictures and other commercial productions. The letter claimed that the director, an ad agency, and a popular theme park had all committed copyright infringement because a panda appeared in the background of their TV commercial.

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Justices Urged To Clarify Fair Use Through Warhol Art IP Row

IP Law 360

The head of the American Bar Association's copyright division said Friday that the U.S. Supreme Court should establish a clear standard for fair use in a copyright battle over Andy Warhol artwork based on a photo of musician Prince, arguing it's a chance for the court to spell out what counts as a transformative work.

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Let’s Go Hazy: Making Sense of Fair Use After Warhol

Copyright Lately

Five things to know about the Supreme Court’s new purpose-driven fair use opinion in Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith (“ Warhol “) is that relatively rare fair use case in which both the original and follow-on works were more or less directly competing in the same market. Andy Warhol Foundation v.

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Award-Winning AI Art Not Copyrightable

The IP Law Blog

Allen won first place at the Colorado State Fair (the “Competition”) for the two-dimensional artwork entitled Théâtre D’opéra Spatial (the “Work”), which he produced with the aid of Artificial Intelligence (“AI”). Allen did not agree to the request and continued to request copyright registration of the entire work.

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How to Distinguish Transformative Fair Uses From Infringing Derivative Works?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

“Warhol Print” (Vanity Fair), Page 8, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. 2021) (available here ); “Warhol Print” also available here “Goldsmith Photograph”, Page 7, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. Goldsmith, 11 F.4th 4th 26 (2d Cir. Goldsmith, 11 F.4th 4th 26 (2d Cir. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.