Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 13, 2022

First off today, Blake Brittain at Reuters reports that yesterday the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case pitting photographer Lynn Goldsmith against the estate of artist Andy Warhol. In 1984, Lynn licensed one of her photographs of the musician Prince to be converted into a painting by Warhol for Vanity Fair magazine.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 8, 2021

First off today, Brian Ashcraft at Kotaku reports that YouTuber Mark Fitzpatrick, better known as Totally Not Mark, says that he does not know what is next after the anime studio Toei has filed copyright claims against some 150 of the videos on his channel. The post 3 Count: NFT Repeat appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 16, 2022

First off today, Massimo Capizza at the National Law Review reports that the Supreme Court of the United States has denied certiorari in a case over the 2003 Josh Groban song You Raise Me Up , leaving a circuit split in place over how to determine substantial similarity between two works. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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