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When a vampire not called Dracula bested the copyright system, and what it tells us about derivative works

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And, while the copyright laws were used to try to keep the film from public view, ultimately it failed, to the continuing benefit of cinematic creation. The tale of Nosferatu shows the sometimes-uneasy relationship between copyright protection and the making of derivative works. The movie had entered cinema oblivion.

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Which Type of Intellectual Property Protection Do I Need?

Art Law Journal

However, a film of the dance moves, or drawings and descriptions of them would be copyrightable. More importantly, because the work must be tangible, that also means that an idea can’t be copyrighted , only the execution of that idea. That’s an idea for a story.

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How Can AI Models Legally Obtain Training Data?–Doe 1 v. GitHub (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The court found: [W]hile Plaintiffs identify several instances in which Copilot’s output matched licensed code written by a Github user, Compl. ¶¶ 56, 71, 74, 87-89, none of these instances involve licensed code published to GitHub by Plaintiffs. Not all was lost, however. Corelogic, Inc. , 3d 666, 671 (9th Cir.

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Which Types of IP (Intellectual Property) Protection Do Artists Need?

Art Law Journal

However, a film of the dance moves, or drawings and descriptions of them would be copyrightable. More importantly, because the work must be tangible, that also means that an idea can’t be copyrighted , only the execution of that idea. That’s an idea for a story.

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U.S. Supreme Court Fixes Ninth Circuit’s Test for Mistakes in Copyright Registrations—Unicolors v. H&M (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The Ninth Circuit also held that the 31 designs were not a “single unit of publication” as a matter of law, because they were not first published together as a “singular, bundled unit.” The Ninth Circuit acknowledged that “this court has never previously addressed what it means to publish multiple works as a ‘single unit.’”

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A Preliminary Analysis of Trump’s Copyright Lawsuit Over Interview Recordings (Trump v. Simon & Schuster) (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Two weeks ago, former President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit against journalist Bob Woodward and his publisher, Simon & Schuster (and its parent company Paramount Global, formerly known as Viacom-CBS), in U.S. The audiobook is also published on CD, and transcripts were published in paperback and ebook formats.)

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