Contracts Derivative Work Public Domain Reporting 
Kluwer Copyright Blog
JUNE 19, 2023
Specifically, a group called Spice DAO purchased an NFT displaying a copy of filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky’s ‘Dune’ for $3 million, assuming it would grant them the ability to produce derivative works, such as an animated Dune series.
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
JUNE 20, 2023
Legal Background: Copyright and Derivative Works Copyright law protects original works of authorship, including “pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works,” 17 U.S.C. For obvious reasons, the copyright in a photograph does not include the right to publicly perform the copyrighted work.
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IP and Legal Filings
MAY 3, 2023
Originality is the quality that distinguishes produced or invented works from copies, clones, forgeries, or derivative works by being new or novel. Here, merely automated and mechanical work that lacks originality is also protected by the said copyright doctrine. A publishing company called Feist Publications Inc.
Copyright Lately
OCTOBER 25, 2021
The studio settled quietly out of court, so there’s no reported decision in this one. Concerned about the effect the book would have on Twain’s reputation, publisher Harper & Brothers and his daughter Clara Clemens filed a lawsuit to stop further publication of “Jap Herron.” The Ghostly Trio.
43(B)log
FEBRUARY 4, 2023
other suggestions: news reports, Billboard] Q: just because the music was by a Black musician doesn’t mean that it’s a Black musician who gets paid when a case about that music is resolved in the P’s favor. Complications: what is being cancelled/updated: “classic” works for children; copyrighted v. public domain.
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
If the work was published with proper copyright notice, it received a federal statutory copyright. If the work was published without proper copyright notice, the work entered the public domain. Nation Enterprises , 723 F.2d 2d 195 (2d Cir. 1983), rev’d on other grounds , 471 U.S. 17 U.S.C. §
LexBlog IP
JANUARY 10, 2024
is] that works produced for the U.S. Government by its officers and employees should not be subject to copyright” and fall “in the public domain.” Still, it seems strange that Woodward, a reporter, would argue that the interviews are somehow government works. ” H.R. 1498, 1509-10 (2020).
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