Copyright Lately

AUGUST 2, 2022

And unlike the vast majority of songwriters and performing artists who have relinquished ownership rights to musical publishers and record labels, Barlow & Bear decided to release “The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical” themselves, which means keeping more of the earnings. Was it a license on the world’s greatest terms?

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TorrentFreak

MAY 17, 2022

Aside from living up to the significant functional claims in its marketing, the big questions revolve around legality. It is unlikely that these features will appear on a licensed mainstream service but that doesn’t stop subscribers from desiring them.

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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Following a twenty-year hiatus that ended in 2019, a new crop of works has entered the U.S. In 2023, this will include all works first published in 1927. Note that works remain protected until the end of the calendar year. Extending Rights in Public Domain Works. public domain each year on January 1.

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 25, 2023

For purposes of a copyright registration, “unclaimable material” has historically included four types of material: Previously published material. Strike or no strike, no one wants to spend millions of dollars to produce and market a work that they can’t fully protect. What is Unclaimable Material?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

On the other hand, professional photographers have to make a living by licensing their photos to publishers (and other intermediaries) who are willing to pay them to reproduce and display those photos. How are photographers supposed to get the attention of those publishers without displaying samples of their work?

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Copyright Lately

MAY 22, 2023

Goldsmith (“ Warhol “) is that relatively rare fair use case in which both the original and follow-on works were more or less directly competing in the same market. More typically, two works aren’t market substitutes, which means that determining whether a secondary use is justified is more difficult.

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JIPL Online

APRIL 9, 2021

x] In fact, on the contrary, memes can operate as a source of marketing and a way to garner interest in creative works in a funny, generationally relevant way. xi] There are countless articles and marketing studies directing corporations on how to market via memes to reach the maximum level of engagement. 277 (2020). [iv]

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