Plagiarism Today
AUGUST 23, 2022
1: Ex-White House Photographer Sued for Copyright Over His Own Photo: ‘You Can’t Make This Up’. First off today, Bevan Hurley at The Independent reports that former White House photographer Pete Souza says that he is facing legal threats over his use of a photograph he took on his own website. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.
Copyright Lately
JANUARY 13, 2023
Yes, in addition to being a noted clergyman and civil rights leader, Dr. King was a copyright litigant. The New York Times reported on Dr. Martin Luther King’s copyright lawsuit over “I Have a Dream” in 1963. CBS brought a summary judgment motion to establish that the speech was in the public domain.
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The IPKat
APRIL 8, 2022
The report goes that Grau's inspiration for the movie came from hearing stories about vampires from local farmers in Serbia, this while he was serving in the German army in 1916. However, there was no longer copyright protection of the book in the U.S. This Kat did not find any detailed report of the German court's decision.
43(B)log
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Designed to be freely available licensed or public domain; we occasionally use fair use images where no free image is available, such as when a famous work has been destroyed. Wikimedia Foundation, Jacob Rogers: DMCA compliance lead for 7 years. Careful justifications/written record when we make those exceptions.
SpicyIP
APRIL 24, 2022
Akira: Well, to be honest, ( taking a pause to think ) IPR mostly reminds me of how hard it is to upload TikTok videos to YouTube , because of either over-eager lawyers or how their magic code detects it and sends copyright notices! They didn’t need permission to borrow from the public corpus or public domain.
Velocity of Content
DECEMBER 6, 2023
Significant amounts of content are also available through the public domain. Additionally, in science publishing, under “ open access ” business models, copyright owners employ open licensing which sometimes allows licensed reuse for AI under the terms of such licenses. There is good reason that copyright is an “opt in” regime.
SpicyIP
JANUARY 2, 2022
The Court noted that redacting one’s name from a judgment acquitting them is counterproductive when there are other tarnishing publications in the public domain and that access to court judgments are integral to “open justice”, subject only to some exceptions. Parliamentary Standing Committee Report on the IP regime.
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