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Fair Use for Documentaries in US Copyright Law: Brown v Netflix

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Chapman (‘plaintiffs’) collectively filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Netflix, Amazon, and Apple (‘defendants’), claiming that the defendants had directly and indirectly infringed their copyright over the song “ Fish Sticks n’ Tater Tots ” by using it in their documentary titled ‘Burlesque’ ( Brown v. Netflix , Inc. ).

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Fonts & Typefaces: Are they Copyrightable? 

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Therefore, for the purpose of this post, I will be using the word, ‘font’ to mean both fonts and typefaces. This post only deals with copyrightability of fonts from artistic work perspective and does not explore the copyrightability of fonts as code or literary works. Debunking the ‘no copyright for fonts’ Argument.

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Copyright Infringement in edited photographs

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Photographs are under the subject matter of copyright which means that photographs are artistic works that attract copyright protection. In India, photographs enjoy copyright protection under Section 2 (c) i of the Copyright Act, 1957 , which mentions the certain types of artistic works granted copyright protection in India.

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Digitalization And Copyright Law

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Copyright And Copyright Law Copyright is one of the crucial parts of Intellectual Property Rights which helps the owner of any creative work to have a legal right over the possession of such work or art. Such work may include any literary or artistic work such as books, articles, films, databases, computer programs etc.

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Artists Attack AI: Why The New Lawsuit Goes Too Far

Copyright Lately

In addition, the original images scanned into those databases, unlike Google’s display of book snippets, are never shown to end users. This arguably makes the use of copyrighted works by by Stable Diffusion even more transformative than Google Book Search. reproduction) of images in order to train the model.

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Jack Daniels v. VIP Products and the Freedom to Parody and Comment in the United States

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In the United States, the doctrine of fair use has been held to permit parody in uses ranging from rap music to children’s books. These fair use rights, the courts have said, have their roots in the U.S. copyright law, under the doctrine of fair use.

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Generative AI, Digital Constitutionalism and Copyright: Towards a Statutory Remuneration Right grounded in Fundamental Rights – Part 1

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Image from DALL-E 3 Introduction Generative AI is disrupting the creative process(es) of intellectual works on an unparalleled scale. More and more AI systems offer services that push users’ production capacity for new literary and artistic works beyond unforeseen barriers. ChatGPT , Smodin ), to perform music (i.e.,

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