Copyright Lately

AUGUST 2, 2022

The full story behind Netflix’s copyright infringement lawsuit against Barlow & Bear, and why it’s actually a win for the fan fiction community. When it comes to copyright cases, Netflix has seen stranger things. Was it a license on the world’s greatest terms? Even better, it’s in the public domain.

Music 102

Music Derivative Work Fair Use Cease and Desist 102

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This is the initial copying design (without of the background graphics in the precedent work): The copyright registrant alleged this copying design constituted copyright infringement. The second comer/licensee assigned the exclusive license to a successor licensee, the defendant in this case. assertions.

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Registration Fair Use Copyright Designs 112

SpicyIP

MARCH 27, 2023

The Court allowed the application and permitted the plaintiff to place the additional documents on record as despite the documents being available in the public domain at the time of filing of the suit, the need for filing the aforesaid documents arose only on account of the stand taken by the defendants in the written statement.

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Designs Design Cease and Desist Art 105

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

. — One logical starting point to tell the history of copyright preemption of contracts is to begin with ProCD v. Guy Rub, in his excellent article “ Copyright Survives: Rethinking the Copyright-Contract Conflict , ” suggested that the Ninth Circuit had adopted the ProCD v. Pilgrim Films & Television, Inc. ,

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Blogging Copyright Contracts Cease and Desist 80

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

Thus, if an artist creates a derivative work based on a photograph unlawfully , and copies of that derivative work are reproduced and distributed to the public, the owner of copyright in the photograph is entitled to sue for copyright infringement and to recover remedies for the unlawful use of their photograph.

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Fair Use Derivative Work Blogging Licensing 96

SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

SpicyIP Tidbits: Compulsory License on Mira Behn’s Autobiography, and Stricter Test of Similarity of Marks for Medicinal Products. Eenadu Television A Division … on 8 November, 2022 (Andhra Pradesh High Court). Licensing Ip International S.AR.L 20 Lakh to Louis Vuitton in a Trademark infringement suit against Club Factory.

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Trademark Patent Copyright Designs 105