Trademark and Copyright Law Blog
FEBRUARY 1, 2021
New Copyrighted Works Enter the Public Domain: In 1998, the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act added 20 years to the term of copyright protection for pre-1976 works, and paused the annual expiration of copyright on older works for 20 years. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby , along with its iconic cover.
LexBlog IP
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
Following Prince’s sudden and untimely death in 2016, the Warhol Foundation, successor to the copyright in the Prince Series, licensed to Condé Nast one of the Prince Series images for use in a commemorative magazine titled The Genius of Prince , which featured on its cover the image from the Prince Series. Goldsmith , 11 F.4th
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Technology & Marketing Law Blog
JUNE 20, 2023
Supreme Court affirmed the Second Circuit’s ruling that the reproduction of Andy Warhol’s Orange Prince on the cover of a magazine tribute was not a fair use of Lynn Goldsmith’s photo of the singer-songwriter Prince, on which the Warhol portrait was based. By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa By a 7-2 vote, the U.S.
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
If the work was published with proper copyright notice, it received a federal statutory copyright. If the work was published without proper copyright notice, the work entered the public domain. Hustler Magazine, Inc. A case that bears a closer resemblance to Trump’s is Falwell v. Penthouse Int’l, Inc. ,
LexBlog IP
JANUARY 10, 2024
is] that works produced for the U.S. Government by its officers and employees should not be subject to copyright” and fall “in the public domain.” Newsweek Magazine (split copyright) , and she therefore calls for greater specificity and uniformity of approach. . “The basic premise of [S]ection 105.[is]
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