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Cloned-and-Revised Legal Documents Aren’t Copyrightable–UIRC v. William Blair

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The plaintiff gets an expensive lesson in the law of derivative works. * * * UIRC offers bonds using a private placement memorandum (PPM) and an indenture of trust. UIRC obtained copyright registrations for two versions of its documents. UIRC sued William Blair for copyright infringement. See, e.g., White v.

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Zillow Loses Second Round of Copyright Fight Over Real Estate Photos

The IP Law Blog

Real estate brokers generally retain VHT to photograph properties they are attempting to sell and then edit the photos, save them in their electronic database, and deliver them to the client pursuant to a license agreement. VHT did apply for registration prior to filing the lawsuit.) The Ninth Circuit noted that the U.S.

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WIPIP Concurrent Session #5 Copyright & Culture

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Said: Framing it as “the woman question” is rhetorically tricky and still positions women as the problem—why not “the copyright question: woman edition”? Sometimes add content warnings instead of edits. Is publicly cancelling a work abandonment? Would it allow fair use? Can third parties edit for offensiveness?

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Zillow Loses Second Round of Copyright Fight Over Real Estate Photos

LexBlog IP

Real estate brokers generally retain VHT to photograph properties they are attempting to sell and then edit the photos, save them in their electronic database, and deliver them to the client pursuant to a license agreement. VHT did apply for registration prior to filing the lawsuit.) The Ninth Circuit noted that the U.S.

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Generative AI, Copyright and the AI Act

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The biggest copyright law question in the EU and US is probably whether using in-copyright works to train generative AI models is copyright infringement or falls under the transient and temporary copying and TDM exceptions (in the EU) or fair use (in the US). In the aftermath of cases like Authors Guild v.

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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

105 , as a “work of the United States Government”? Fourth, if not, can Trump circumvent the registration requirement by seeking a declaratory judgment, or will he have to comply with the registration requirement? If the work was published with proper copyright notice, it received a federal statutory copyright.

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The Good Get: Interviews, The Predicates Of Copyright Ownership, & Divorcing Subjects From Owning Copyright Content

LexBlog IP

Before the second amendment, President Trump received a copyright registration covering the work, despite an early registration being recorded in Woodward’s favor. There, one sees the editing, sequencing, and timing decisions consistent with authorship in Woodward rather than Trump. ’” Id. ” Id.