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Book review: Performing Copyright: Law, Theatre and Authorship

The IPKat

Who receives the credit and the licensing rights? What happens when a copyright infringement claim is made against the playwright? And who poses moral rights in the work? In what circumstances can a director or actor be granted joint-authorship with the writer? The monograph is presented in six chapters.

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Some Thoughts on Five Pending AI Litigations – Avoiding Squirrels and Other AI Distractions

Velocity of Content

Regardless, as of this writing there are now five cases that may provide some clarity on this less frequently discussed but foundational issue of the unauthorized use of copyrighted materials as training data for AI (I use “AI” here as a shorthand which also includes text and data mining and machine learning). This will be hard to defend.

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Sunday Surprises

The IPKat

Topics will include access and substantial similarity, fair use, performers' rights, moral rights, expert testimony, the role of lay listeners, sound sampling as it appears in court and out-of-court litigation. For more information and to register, click here.

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When is a derivative work original and thus protectable by copyright? Classicist’s critical edition makes its way to Luxembourg in fresh Romanian CJEU referral

The IPKat

In this sense, a somewhat similar – though dated (by that meaning: pre- Infopaq [IPKat here and here ] ) – case litigated both in France and the UK cannot but come to mind: Hyperion Records v Sawkins [IPKat here ] , concerning copyright protection of a ‘reconstructed’ baroque music score. The decision was upheld on appeal.

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Monday Miscellany

The IPKat

Topics include access and substantial similarity, fair use, performers’ rights, moral rights, expert testimony, the role of lay listeners, sound sampling, as demonstrated in dispositions of litigated and settled infringement disputes. More information about this event here.

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DMCA, Twitch, and “Death Note”

IPilogue

Twitch has been featured on the IPilogue in the past (relating to video game copyrights , moral rights in video games , and the European Copyright Directive ) but this case is unique as it involves a different form of copyrighted media: TV shows. Twitch Popularity.

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Taking the Mona Lisa Effect from Illusion to Reality: Enhancing the Museum Experience with Augmented and Virtual Reality

JIPEL Copyright Blog

Perhaps one of the most salient legal issues is whether there is copyright infringement or a violation of the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 (“VARA”) in the virtual modification (e.g., For the most part, liability may be avoidable: museums could defend any copyright (e.g.,