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What moral rights looked like in the 12th century—the story of "Guide of the Perplexed"

The IPKat

The basic mechanism of the modern author is regulating reproduction of the work (the subject matter of copyright) and preventing affronts to the work and the author's connection with it (the subject matter of moral rights). Generic license. Generic license. but rather how readers use the text.

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Some Thoughts on Five Pending AI Litigations – Avoiding Squirrels and Other AI Distractions

Velocity of Content

One core concept in AI-relevant cases that both find for, and against, fair use ( Google Books and Fox v. It is somehow different from the right to make transformative derivative works (where the word “transformed” is used in Section 101 ) such as film adaptations of books, which clearly require copyright owner consent.

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WIPIP: In Memoriam and Fair Use

43(B)log

Fair uses tend to divide into buckets: justified by new work; justified by project. New work: Derivative work or embedding work: Cambpell v. Use is justified by context of being placed in new work. The parodic context has to remain for the work to remain a fair use. Prince is work plus embodiment.