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Ninth Circuit Reaffirms the “Server Test” for Direct Infringement of the Public Display Right — Hunley v. Instagram, LLC (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Copyright Act grants authors five exclusive rights: “to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords”, “to prepare derivative works based on the copyrighted work,” “to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public,” “to perform the copy­righted work publicly,” and “to display the copyrighted work publicly.”

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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

This two-part blog post contains a summary of our report’s conclusions and recommendations. A piece of AI music output created with one click on a button specifically for this blog post using folk-rnn could be enjoyed here: [link]. 1] (On the topic of AI outputs and derivative works, see here.). folk-rnn , Melomics ).

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Understanding Assignment of Copyright

Kashishipr

Each work has various rights, such as theatrical rights, distribution rights, rental rights, broadcasting rights, rights related to adoption and translation, rights to prepare derivative works, and so on, each of which can be exploited separately. These rights can be disjointedly assigned for a limited term or perpetually.

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Is the Happiest Place on Earth About to Lose its Smiling Face?

LexBlog IP

Disney should also be strategically liberal in its lawsuits—both under trademark law and under derivative works. While copyright protection expires, trademark protection does not. ” Disney has trademark protection for Mickey Mouse.

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IT’S THE COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT FOR ME: WHY CLAIMS AGAINST MEME CONTENT SHOULD NOT MATTER

JIPL Online

With this brief background in mind, this blog post explores the implications of copyright protection of memes. In this blog I argue that copyright protection of the content underlying memes does not matter because of the relative weakness of enforcement mechanisms for copyright infringement of this scale. Stearns, Todd J.

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Intellectual Property (IP) Issues in Augmented Reality (AR)

Kashishipr

In the ongoing digital era, most AR apps work by identifying a 2D symbol or physical object and then animating that view before the user’s eyes to set an illusion that it has transformed into something else. The question in this scenario is whether this process infringes upon the right to create a derivative work of the physical object?

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Nintendo’s Actions Demonstrate Our Intellectual Property Laws are Broken

JIPEL Copyright Blog

It is an open legal question whether this would constitute an infringing derivative work. It adds new sections to the opening menu of the original game, allowing players to access the added online features. It also modifies the game itself through its netplay and rollback functionality.