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Deadly Dolls and a Forgotten Copyright Exception

Copyright Lately

One of Deadly Doll’s popular designs is a cartoon image of a bikini-clad pin-up girl holding a skull: Deadly Doll’s original artwork. Deadly Doll has applied versions of its artwork to various products, including tops and sweatpants: Deadly Doll’s artwork as reproduced on useful articles. Vila’s Motion.

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Why do artists infringe copyright – the tension between artistic creativity and copyright law

IPilogue

As an avant-guard artist of his time, Warhol used the mechanical process of copying to challenge the conventional notion of art. In this sense, the act of copying is the very medium of Warhol’s art. Copyright, in the simplest terms, is “ the right to copy.”

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Using that classic piece of art on a book cover: Grr…

The IPKat

Works of art, in the form of the reproduction of a painting, frequently adorns the cover of a reissued edition of a renowned novel. Beyond the obvious attempt to draw a connection between the artwork and the book based a shared sense of the "classical", the artwork also seeks to evoke a more specific connection with the contents of the book.

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Use of Warhol’s Prince Image Found Not to Be Sufficiently Transformative for Fair Use 

LexBlog IP

On May 18, 2023, the Supreme Court found that artistic changes to a pre-existing work, alone, not necessarily sufficient to make a derivative work fair use. Applying a new lens on how to view the purpose of a derivative work under U.S. copyright law.

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

Copyright Lately

The court’s limited ruling also means that museums displaying the artwork don’t need to worry that they’ll be served with injunction papers any time soon. But make no mistake, Warhol v. Goldsmith will be parsed and picked apart for years to come. “[T]he first fair use factor. “[T]he first fair use factor.

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Which Type of Intellectual Property Protection Do I Need?

Art Law Journal

More importantly, because the work must be tangible, that also means that an idea can’t be copyrighted , only the execution of that idea. For example, anybody can publish a book about three teenagers who solve magical mysteries at a wizarding school. Your Copy-Rights. That’s an idea for a story.

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Which Types of IP (Intellectual Property) Protection Do Artists Need?

Art Law Journal

More importantly, because the work must be tangible, that also means that an idea can’t be copyrighted , only the execution of that idea. For example, anybody can publish a book about three teenagers who solve magical mysteries at a wizarding school. Your Copy-Rights. That’s an idea for a story.