IPilogue
MARCH 2, 2023
Recently in Alexander v Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc , a jury of the US District Court of the Southern District of Illinois concluded that tattoo artist Catherine Alexander has a valid copyright claim in the designs she tattooed on World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. Copyright protection over tattoos has been a hot topic for some time.
IPilogue
JULY 18, 2022
There seems to have always been tension between artistic creativity and copyright law. Copyright, in the simplest terms, is “ the right to copy.” It protects the authors’ exclusive rights to reproduce and publish their creations. In this sense, the act of copying is the very medium of Warhol’s art.
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Copyright Lately
OCTOBER 24, 2022
” incident that results in a published court decision, there are dozens of others that are resolved quickly and quietly out of court. Fair use and de minimis defenses are often unreliable, and even if you have a solid case, defending copyright infringement lawsuits is an expensive proposition. copyright law.
Dear Rich IP Blog
AUGUST 3, 2022
As to the second factor , the nature of the copyrighted work, courts generally consider photographs as creative works, unless, as might be the case with your photo, the photo is more documentary in nature and does not “showcase the original artistic expression of the photographer.” (See Architectural copyright. See DeFontbrune v.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
JUNE 30, 2021
Since the Second Circuit found the use of the song in the film fair and thus there was no direct infringement, the claims for secondary copyright infringement were also dismissed. The evolution in the case law of the Second Circuit may constitute a game changer for documentary makers. by Tito Rendas. € by Martin Senftleben. €
Intellectual Property Law Blog
OCTOBER 3, 2023
The growth of artificial intelligence (“AI”) and generative AI is moving copyright law into unprecedented territory. While US copyright law continues to develop around AI, one boundary has been set: the bedrock requirement of copyright is human authorship. Perlmutter, et.
The IPKat
JANUARY 25, 2022
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. The cover provides the requisite information—title, author, and publisher. You can't judge a book from its cover".
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