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Clarifying Copyright Fair Use in Commercialized and Licensed Visual Arts: Insights from Warhol v. Goldsmith

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Goldsmith SCOTUS Decision Welcome to the ever-evolving world of intellectual property law, where creativity intersects with legal rights, and the boundaries of art and originality are constantly being defined and redefined. This could potentially stifle creativity and limit the use of derivative works in commercial contexts.

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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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AI Music Outputs: Challenges to the Copyright Legal Framework – Part I

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From this perspective then, where an output does not qualify as original in the sense that it reflects the author’s free and creative choices, that output is – from the perspective of copyright – in the public domain. 1] (On the topic of AI outputs and derivative works, see here.). More from our authors: Law of Raw Data.

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Is the Happiest Place on Earth About to Lose its Smiling Face?

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Disney should also be strategically liberal in its lawsuits—both under trademark law and under derivative works. Disney carefully safeguards and enforces its intellectual property rights, and they will most likely sue if given a chance. While copyright protection expires, trademark protection does not.

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Which Type of Intellectual Property Protection Do I Need?

Art Law Journal

Unfortunately, Intellectual Property law has gotten so complicated that many people aren’t even sure which type of Intellectual Property (copyright, trademarks, or patents) protects their creative work. Which Type of Intellectual Property Law Is Right for You. © Steve Schlackman (1975).

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

Art Law Journal

The result is that Intellectual Property is often left unprotected or undefended. Fortunately, you don’t need to grasp all the complexities of Intellectual Property law to protect your creative work. For any works created before 1989 and 1924, use the flowchart below. © Steve Schlackman (1975).

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HULM Entertainment v.  Fantasy Sports: Reanalysing Originality, Idea-Expression Dichotomy and Copyrightability of GUIs

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student at Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow. She is keenly interested in Intellectual Property Law, Technology Law, and Corporate Law ]. Image from here [ This post is co-authored with Tejaswini Kaushal with inputs from Swaraj and an anonymous reader. Tejaswini is a 3rd-year B.A.