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Why Netflix’s “Bridgerton” Lawsuit is Good for Fan Fiction

Copyright Lately

performances of “The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical”) or other derivative works that might compete with Netflix’s own planned live events,” including the multi-city “ Bridgerton Experience.” First, as far as copyright cases go, this one’s easy. Was it a license on the world’s greatest terms?

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IT’S THE COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT FOR ME: WHY CLAIMS AGAINST MEME CONTENT SHOULD NOT MATTER

JIPL Online

Memes utilize pop culture content, such as movies, television shows, and other various forms of media, often in a parodic way. 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] By: Taylor Bussey. INTRODUCTION.

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Copyright Evidence: 21 for 2021 (a year in review)

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In this post, we offer an overview of the project to date, stratified across CREATe’s core research themes : Creative Industries , the Public Domain , and Competition and Markets. The digital revolution has moved legal questions about copyright, information, and competition law to the regulatory centre of the creative industries.

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U.S. Supreme Court Vindicates Photographer But Destabilizes Fair Use — Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

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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Ninth Circuit Reaffirms the “Server Test” for Direct Infringement of the Public Display Right — Hunley v. Instagram, LLC (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Copyright Act grants authors five exclusive rights: “to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords”, “to prepare derivative works based on the copyrighted work,” “to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public,” “to perform the copy­righted work publicly,” and “to display the copyrighted work publicly.”

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Miramax, Tarantino and a Fight Over Bright Shiny Objects

Copyright Lately

Miramax claims, among other things, that the preparation and sale of these derivative works constitutes copyright infringement because the contractual rights Tarantino reserved in his 1993 agreement with Miramax don’t cover NFTs. This is, after all, supposed to be a copyright case.

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Is Trump’s Copyright Claim Against Woodward “Trumped Up”?

The IP Law Blog

Trump contends that Woodward did not request to expand the scope of a release or furnish a release to use the interview sound recordings for an audiobook or any other derivative work, as is customary in the book publishing and recording industries. So there’s no stories coming out, okay.