43(B)log
JANUARY 27, 2023
Spiralverse removed the original paperback glue bindings from the copies it purchased, punched holes in the pages, and installed spiral bindings. Spiralverse listed its modified copies for sale on Amazon at prices of $29.99 Copyright infringement: Rebinding doesn’t create a derivative work. Wisdom Paths, Inc.,
TorrentFreak
MAY 17, 2022
Long before the advent of legitimate online video streaming services, torrent sites and similar platforms allowed users to download and keep copies of movies and TV shows. Is it permissible to download and keep copies of movies and TV shows if you’ve paid for a legal subscription? Subscriber Agreements.
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The IPKat
OCTOBER 1, 2022
Here’s what Felicia writes: Archival Authenticity or Iconic Copies? It also suggests that copying might have some effect on our understanding of what is and is not iconic. Assuredly, Dolce & Gabbana may not be able to prevent copies on the U.S. In this negative space of copyright law in the U.S., As in the U.S.,
Copyright Lately
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
Case in point is a recent ruling out of the Central District of California involving clothing brand Deadly Doll. Deadly Doll’s theory was that by taking a photo of Shayk wearing clothes that included its artwork, Vila had created an unlawful derivative work that reproduced its copyrighted image. Vila’s Motion.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
APRIL 22, 2024
Basically, because an NFT is an encoded digital metadata file of a copy of a work that can be copyright protected. That is, in an NFT there can be an underlying copy of a work of art –typically an image, photograph, piece of music, video or certain audiovisual content– that may be subject to copyright. And why is that?
43(B)log
FEBRUARY 4, 2023
A Few Words for a Lost Friend: Tribute to Dmitry Karshtedt (Bob Brauneis, Mark Lemley, Jake Sherkow) Closing Plenary Session: Fair use Robert Brauneis, Copyright Transactions in the Shadow of Fair Use Suppose a work does not infringe another work because and only because it’s been ruled a fair use. Prince is work plus embodiment.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
APRIL 3, 2024
On infringement, the judge found that the similarities were sufficiently close to be more likely a result of copying than coincidence and so it was for Tesco to explain those similarities. On the judge’s substantial part finding, Tesco argued on appeal that Tesco had not copied what was original to the author of the Stage 3 Work.
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