Traverse Legal Blog

JANUARY 26, 2022

An NFT group called TheSpiceDAO bought a copy of the book “Dune” believing they had purchased more than just the book. The essence of the news story is that TheSpiceDAO bought at auction a rare copy of “Dune” that was being auctioned off by Christie’s as just a book. The right to create derivative works.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 17, 2024

The plaintiff gets an expensive lesson in the law of derivative works. * * * UIRC offers bonds using a private placement memorandum (PPM) and an indenture of trust. There was no question about the copying–the revised William Blair documents sloppily retained references to UIRC). Copyright Protection for Legal Documents.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

First off today, Kevin Shalvey at Business Insider reports that “Sports Illustrated” swimsuit model Genevieve Morton has filed a lawsuit against Twitter alleging that the site was slow to remove infringing material and that an AI photo editing tool created unlawful derivative works.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

When the said sensor recognizes it is in front of the Ara Pacis, it gives the order to copy the colored reproductions of some parts of the Ara Pacis, stored in a cloud-based database, and display them on the screen of the goggles. When copyright is involved, both economic and moral rights issues are at stake.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 31, 2023

When Prince died in April 2016, Vanity Fair’s parent company, Condé Nast, licensed another image from the Prince Series (“Orange Prince”) from AWF, which it used as the cover of a Prince tribute edition magazine. Around this time, Goldsmith learned of the additional works comprising the Prince Series.

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IP Tech Blog

JANUARY 4, 2023

The exclusivity of exploitation is key to the success of a limited-edition collectible. In particular, this case will determine whether the distribution and sale of NFTs violate copyright rules for derivative works, which must have the original copyright owner’s permission or else they constitute infringement. The United States.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 4, 2023

The exclusivity of exploitation is key to the success of a limited-edition collectible. In particular, this case will determine whether the distribution and sale of NFTs violate copyright rules for derivative works, which must have the original copyright owner’s permission or else they constitute infringement.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 6, 2022

What about editing some NBA Top Shots moments to create a fantasy matchup between Michael Jordan and Steph Curry? The first thing that’s important to understand is that buying a copy of a creative work, even if it happens to the only copy in existence, doesn’t give you any copyright interest in the work.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Said: Framing it as “the woman question” is rhetorically tricky and still positions women as the problem—why not “the copyright question: woman edition”? Looking at post-1978, 9 th , 2d, and 6 th Cir (Motown) and SCt; copying and use without license. Sometimes add content warnings instead of edits. Derivative 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. The papers were taken from copies of the examination papers that students provided, not from publications by the University of London Press Ltd.

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43(B)log

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Gannett doesn’t get summary judgment on having a license even though the contract with Microsoft granted it “an unlimited (including all lifts, edits and versions) non-exclusive, worldwide, all channels, irrevocable, license to use, market, promote, distribute, copy, reproduce, display, record, re-record, electronically publish, publicly display, transmit, (..)

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 9, 2023

The biggest copyright law question in the EU and US is probably whether using in-copyright works to train generative AI models is copyright infringement or falls under the transient and temporary copying and TDM exceptions (in the EU) or fair use (in the US). 3] Credit for the prompt goes to Professor Thomas Margoni.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 21, 2021

As that Compendium notes in its 2021 edition at Section 313.2 : The Office will not register works produced by nature, animals, or plants. Secrecy Reasons : “Some religions use copyright law to keep their religions secret; some religions do not want to disclose their works to the general public.” ” Id.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

. §202(a) ] “Fixed” means that the work is embodied in a material object in some permanent form. A work is fixed in either a “copy” or a “phonorecord.” “Phonorecords” are defined as material objects in which only sounds are fixed, while “copies” are defined as material objects in which any other kind of work is fixed. [ 17 U.S.C.

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