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The Art Critic’s Role in Fair Use

Patently-O

Although Warhol is dead, his art, legacy, copyrights, and potential copy-wrongs live on. As part of that process, VF obtained a license from Goldsmith, but only for the limited use “as an artist’s reference in connection with an article to be published in Vanity Fair Magazine.” by Dennis Crouch. Andy Warhol Foundation v.

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Recording a license agreement in the EU requires consent of the currently registered trade mark owner

The IPKat

Recording a license agreement concerning an EU trade mark is not mandatory but has several benefits (see the EUIPO’s trade mark Guidelines ): The license has effects vis-à-vis third parties ( Art. The EUIPO informs the licensee of the expiry of the trade mark at least six months in advance ( Art. 27(1) EUTMR ).

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Supreme Court Finds Warhol’s Commercial Licensing of “Orange Prince” to Vanity Fair Is Not Fair Use and Infringes Goldsmith’s Famed Rock Photo

Intellectual Property Law Blog

On May 18, 2023, the United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of famed rock photographer Lynn Goldsmith against the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.’s In 2016, Vanity Fair licensed Orange Prince from AWF for the cover of their commemorative issue about Prince. Goldsmith and, as a result, did not constitute fair use.

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Arts 3 and 4 of the CDSM Directive as regulatory interfaces: Shaping contractual practices in the Commercial Scientific Publishing and Stock Images sectors

Kluwer Copyright Blog

We are interested in exploring whether in the EU Arts 3 and 4 of the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive (CDSMD) played a role in shaping the contractual practices in selected industry sectors in relation to the licensing of works as training data. While art. 7(1), CDSM), art. 3 and art. 4(3), CDSM).

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NFT Copyright License Rights: Due Diligence is Critical.

Traverse Legal Blog

Copyright Licensing of Digital Assets Attached to NFT Sales. Bonus: Free Open Source Copyright License for NFT sales below]. What are the terms by which you are selling the NFT and licensing your work, the art you put into the platform that’s going to be attached to the NFT? NFT Copyright Licensing.

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Licensing NFTs: You Need to Know Who Owns What You’re Selling

Traverse Legal Blog

One of the big problems with the NFT marketplace, where NFTs are both sold and purchased, is that the platform doesn’t provide any licensing language for the digital asset that the owner attaches to the NFT. “These platforms are not providing any license language for the actual asset attached to the NFT.

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Pandemic art kit didn't infringe artist's rights

43(B)log

Defendants used a couple of pictures of her Dog Art work as an example of a style that kids using its art kits could emulate. Defendants provided zoom art classes to accompany the kits. The copies of Keck’s work were made by right-clicking Google images. The use was commercial but transformative.

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