LexBlog IP

MAY 24, 2023

Warhol’s use of Prince’s photo (taken by Lynn Goldsmith) was not entitled to fair use. The Court found that Goldsmith’s earlier photo and Andy Warhol’s use served the same commercial purpose – as a magazine illustration. I am not so sure. Take a look a the illustration above.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

Clarifying Copyright Fair Use in Commercialized and Licensed Visual Arts: Insights from Warhol v. Goldsmith by Jaime Chandra Clarifying Fair Use in Commercialized & Licensed Visual Arts: Insights from the Warhol v. We’re talking about Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, Inc. Let’s dive in!

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 26, 2021

This means, theoretically, that elements such as the Superman “S” can be protected by copyright because they are separate elements that are merely copied onto the clothing. Unique Industries , the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that masks broadly fall outside the “useful article” classification and do qualify for copyright protection.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 23, 2023

Stable Diffusion Doesn’t Store Copies of Training Images The complaint also mischaracterizes Stable Diffusion by asserting that images used to train the model are “stored at and incorporated” into the tool as “compressed copies.” The current Stable Diffusion model uses about 5 gigabytes of data.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 7, 2023

2] At one end of the spectrum, we find plagiarism: a completely derivative work that fails to contribute any creative elements to the original piece. An example would be an artist copying a previous painting and merely altering the colors to pass it off as a new creation.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 8, 2022

While parody isn’t protected in the Constitution, fair use was codified into U.S. In that case, ComicMix LLC was seeking to release a comic book that mashed up themes from the two elements, only to have the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rule against them, saying it was not protected by fair use. Where Who’s Holiday!

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