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.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
APRIL 22, 2024
Mango, in turn, sustained in its defence that (i) as the rightful owner of the physical Paintings, it was entitled to display them in public, and that (ii) the creation of digital works (i.e. Therefore, the moral right of “disclosure” had already been exhausted. an exploitation that caused them no harm).
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The IPKat
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Background As previously reported by the IPKat last year, VEGAP, a collective management organisation for intellectual property rights in Spain, brought a claim against Punto Na SA, the IP holding company for the well-known clothing brand Mango, seeking compensation in respect of the alleged infringement of copyright in certain artworks.
The IPKat
JULY 9, 2023
While in the 70s and 80s the use of legal means might have seemed futile to some artists, including Bansky, this is no longer necessarily the case today. It emerges that brands should pay for the use of street artworks. The number of registrations with the US Copyright Office has been growing since the 1970s.
LexBlog IP
OCTOBER 10, 2023
What if the social media account is used to promote the account owner’s own goods or services, or a third party’s brand? Copyright Law grants the author the exclusive rights to exploit the work, subject to certain fair use defenses. But the artist can waive these rights in writing.
JIPL Online
APRIL 9, 2021
Brands have recently begun to co-opt this form of communication in an attempt to capitalize on the prevalence and effectiveness of memes. [ii] On one hand, those who view intellectual property rights as a limited monopoly would suggest that even derivative use of the content in a meme is infringement on the rights holder’s interest.
SpicyIP
MAY 1, 2023
Licensing of training datasets The licensing of datasets – for the concerned rights under Sec. Some have argued in favour of fair use, at least in the US context. It has been contended that use of databases should generally be allowed for training, whether the contents of such database are copyrighted or not.
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