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U.S. Supreme Court Vindicates Photographer But Destabilizes Fair Use — Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Legal Background: Copyright and Derivative Works Copyright law protects original works of authorship, including “pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works,” 17 U.S.C. For obvious reasons, the copyright in a photograph does not include the right to publicly perform the copyrighted work.

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Why Netflix’s “Bridgerton” Lawsuit is Good for Fan Fiction

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performances of “The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical”) or other derivative works that might compete with Netflix’s own planned live events,” including the multi-city “ Bridgerton Experience.” For now, suffice it to say that Barlow & Bear haven’t exactly dedicated their musical to the public domain.

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AI Music Outputs: Challenges to the Copyright Legal Framework – Part I

Kluwer Copyright Blog

A recent report in the context of the reCreating Europe project addresses this question, building on previous work from some of its authors, namely a study on “Trends and Developments in Artificial Intelligence: Challenges to IP” (summarised in a previous post ) and this article. Example workflow diagram by artist duo Hyper Music.

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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.” Controversy” [8] : The Litigation. Vanity Fair , in turn, commissioned Warhol to make a silkscreen using Goldsmith’s photograph. He did just that.

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The Good Get: Interviews, The Predicates Of Copyright Ownership, & Divorcing Subjects From Owning Copyright Content

LexBlog IP

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.” ” As Mary Catherine Amerine observed in her article Wrestling Over Republication Rights: Who Owns The Copyright Of Interviews? ” H.R.

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Maybe Duct Tape Can’t Fix Everything: Slippery Standards As Copyright Goes Bananas

LexBlog IP

And, there are still more challenges from authors and creators to the til-now-uncompensated use of their works to “train” artificial intelligence engines, as seen in the recent open letter from the Authors’ Guild to various tech companies. Morford , at 11. ” Id. Google] , 804 F.3d 3d [202,] 215-216 [(2d Cir.

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A Preliminary Analysis of Trump’s Copyright Lawsuit Over Interview Recordings (Trump v. Simon & Schuster) (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

If not, the court may have to address several other interesting, rarely-litigated issues concerning the proper scope of copyright in recorded interviews. Based solely on the complaint that was filed, there are six major issues raised by the case: First, were the recorded interviews a copyright-eligible “work of authorship”?

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