IPilogue

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Japan’s proposed new law would require professional cosplayers to pay a fee to the creators of the characters they cosplay in specific circumstances ( for example , when appearing as a character for an event or on television). Luckily for most cosplayers, their costumes likely do not infringe copyright laws.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 16, 2023

As a person involved in copyright on a daily basis, I’ve observed a number of events and requests for comment over the last few years on the issue of whether artificial intelligence (AI) systems can be “authors” in the copyright sense (or inventors of patents). This article was originally published in The Scholarly Kitchen.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Famous for its expressionist renderings of various poker players, the site and its artist, Brett Butz, sold not only completed works but offered commissioned pieces that were popular among poker players. In particular photographers that specialized in shooting poker events.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

6] The Supreme Court’s ruling on that petition—and a possible eventual decision on the merits—could have enormous implications for the art world and other industries impacted by copyright law. Originals” [7] : The Works at Issue. It found that all four fair use factors weighed against fair use. [12]

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JIPL Online

APRIL 9, 2021

Such uses are often methods of social commentary regarding the user’s own life, or more broadly, current events; they also often utilize copyrightable material. [i] ii] Existing copyright law is ineffective in its application to new forms of digital media. ” How Stagnant Copyright Law is Stifling Creativity , 27 J.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

To fully understand these conflicting views of the majority opinion, it is necessary to understand both the specific facts of the case and the history of the Supreme Court’s case law concerning the fair-use doctrine. For obvious reasons, the copyright in a photograph does not include the right to publicly perform the copyrighted work.

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Traverse Legal Blog

JANUARY 29, 2022

The NFT identifies all the transfers and events that are related to the digital asset. You don’t necessarily have to provide the right to copy as the copyright owner, but the standard is to give that right and the critical item to display the works. In the illustration above, the grantee may not modify the work in any way.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 6, 2022

Just don’t forget about real world copyright law. ? Want to Create New Derivative Works? This still wouldn’t necessarily have given the buyer carte blanche to create new derivative works featuring the characters, as opposed to, perhaps, digital screengrabs from individual episodes.

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 11, 2023

We, who have been writing and teaching about copyright law and how it has responded to challenges posed by new technologies for decades, were among those who submitted comments, see [link]. In addition, conduct that may be consistent with the copyright laws nevertheless may violate Section 5. That is far too hasty.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In his Opinion, however, Advocate General (AG) Cruz Villalón indicated that the notions of parody, caricature and pastiche ‘have the same effect of derogating from the copyright of the author of the original work which, in one way or another, is present in the – so to speak – derived work.’

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Garrigues Blog

MAY 11, 2021

The RAE’s definition of architecture as “the art of designing and constructing buildings”, is not alien to Peruvian copyright law. 822 – Copyright Law, in line with decision no. However, it excludes ideas, procedures, methods of operation and/or construction and styles used in architectural works (i.e.,

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

scene in the past, things seemed to come to a head in November 2020 when Nintendo sent a cease-and-desist letter to the Tournament Organizers (TOs) of the Big House, an upcoming streamed Melee tournament, and subsequently forced them to cancel the event. It is an open legal question whether this would constitute an infringing derivative work.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 3, 2022

This confluence of events may help explain why the jury came back with its verdict in favor of Alexander. The fundamental problem with the court’s ruling and the resulting jury verdict is that it puts copyright law in a very uneasy tension with two other constitutional rights, the right to bodily autonomy and the First Amendment.

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 6, 2023

The case involves an interesting interplay between copyright law, entertainment contracts and the First Amendment. Wagging Tails contends that these materials are “unauthorized and infringing derivative works” based on its motion picture. In one notable case, Balsley v. LFP , Inc. ,

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Under the 1976 Copyright Act, copyright subsists automatically in any “original work of authorship” that is “fixed in any tangible medium of expression.” [ 17 U.S.C. Complaint ¶ 64] In the alternative, Trump pleads that he owns the copyright only in his responses to Woodward’s questions.

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