Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

However, publishing companies had been continuing to collect royalties on behalf of songwriters even after the rights were reclaimed due to the law saying that publishers can continue licensing any existing derivative works.

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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Copyright Office issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) in the Federal Register to clarify the application of the derivative works exception to copyright termination rights within the context of blanket licenses administered under the Music Modernization Act (MMA). On October 25, the U.S.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 17, 2024

In 2022, Lokka faced Finland’s Supreme Court over videos of a 2016 protest published to his YouTube channel, to which Lokka added subtitles in various languages. With parody status unavailable, the content posted to Twitter was confirmed as an unauthorized derivative work, distributed by Lokka, in breach of copyright.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 14, 2024

The author plaintiffs alleged that OpenAI infringed on their published works by using these works to help train its LLM. The plaintiffs alleged that OpenAI copied their published books, which are protected by copyright law, and used them in a training dataset for its LLM.

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Olartemoure Blog

APRIL 14, 2023

The trademark claimed that it had the rights over the photograph and published it on its social media as advertising , without the authorization of the author. However, the court disagreed with Deadly Doll’s claim, and analyzed whether the photograph could be considered a derivative work.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Deadly Doll’s theory was that by taking a photo of Shayk wearing clothes that included its artwork, Vila had created an unlawful derivative work that reproduced its copyrighted image. His main argument was that the photo couldn’t be considered an infringing derivative work simply because it captured Deadly Doll’s design.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

A recent article by Austin Mace at Screenrant highlights comments made decades ago by Batman co-creator Bill Finger regarding Batman’s first appearance in Detective Comics #27, published in May 1939. . The similarities are incredibly obvious. But, it didn’t happen in 2022. It happened in 1939. A licensee alone couldn’t file a case.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

On May 18, 2023, the Supreme Court found that artistic changes to a pre-existing work, alone, not necessarily sufficient to make a derivative work fair use. Applying a new lens on how to view the purpose of a derivative work under U.S. copyright law.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

He says that he should be given credit and a portion of the music publishing income. Is the new song a derivative work? Your former collaborator may argue that your new song is a derivative of your earlier collaboration. He's threatened to get a lawyer. I don't want this to mess up my record release.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

The first factor did not apply to Warhol’s image as published in Condé Nast in 2016, so that specific use was not fair use. Lynn Goldsmith, a rock-and-roll photographer, took a photograph of Prince in 1981 that was published in a Newsweek article. is (in copyright lingo) not ‘transformative.’”

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The IPKat

JULY 2, 2021

At one end, there are the Jane Austen afficionados, who have read the entire corpus of her published novels (or, even if not all of them, have an affinity for “Emma”). Even if so, for the “All-In” group, the movie, as a derivative work, remains tethered to the literary work. view) such derivative works.

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JIPL Online

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

These derivative works are not always supported or authorized by the original game publishers. Publishers and mod creators may soon become caught between the desire to provide freedom to players and the need to protect intellectual property rights. The ramifications of this practice are unclear.

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JIPL Online

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Mods are beneficial for the video game industry, [3] but mods can threaten a company’s copyright exclusivity because of their status as derivative works. [4] Second, this blog will provide an explanation for why threats of litigation are damaging to mod communities as well as to the video game publishing companies that employ them.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 14, 2024

The author plaintiffs alleged that OpenAI infringed on their published works by using these works to help train its LLM. The plaintiffs alleged that OpenAI copied their published books, which are protected by copyright law, and used them in a training dataset for its LLM.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In the United States, copyright holders have the sole right to prepare derivative works , including major copyrightable elements of an original, previously created work. Despite the legal uncertainty, fanfiction and fanart continue to rise.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 28, 2021

Sites like AO3 provide fanfiction authors with a forum to publish their works, as well as huge audiences from around the world to consume them for free. The problem is that most fanfiction could be characterized as derivative works of other already existing original works, as defined in 17 U.S.C. §

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 16, 2023

This article was originally published in The Scholarly Kitchen. It is somehow different from the right to make transformative derivative works (where the word “transformed” is used in Section 101 ) such as film adaptations of books, which clearly require copyright owner consent. These cases are not against AI.

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IPilogue

JULY 18, 2022

It protects the authors’ exclusive rights to reproduce and publish their creations. In other cases, museums invited artists to create derivative works based on museum collections. There seems to have always been tension between artistic creativity and copyright law. Copyright, in the simplest terms, is “ the right to copy.”

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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 9, 2022

Vanity Fair decided to publish an article about the rock singer Prince in a 1984 magazine. Vanity Fair then commissioned Andy Warhol to prepare an art work of Prince to accompany the article and supplied him with the Goldsmith photograph as a source material. The Court will review that decision in the fall of 2022.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 6, 2023

YouTube’s main defense to Schneider’s copyright claims in other works is that it holds a “ blanket catalog license ” granted by Modern Works Music Publishing (MWP). According to YouTube, that license covers all of Schneider’s musical compositions, so Schneider’s infringement claims cannot succeed.

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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. Welcome to the world of “unclaimable material,” a strange land where material that could be protected by copyright isn’t protected by copyright. What is Unclaimable Material?

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Corsearch

MARCH 13, 2023

Copyright © Walt Disney Animation Studios A background on copyright protections in the US All works that were published in the US prior to 1923 are now in the public domain, as is any work created by individuals in an official capacity for the federal government.

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BYU Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The Professors allege that following this termination, the College has continued to use materials from the Work in its course offerings without the permission of the Professors. These uses have purportedly included violations of rights of reproduction, distribution, display, and preparation of derivative works.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 23, 2023

Copyright Guidelines for Works Containing AI-Generated Material by Aaron Rice Introduction The United States Copyright Office published comprehensive guidelines addressing the registration process for works containing material generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI). Derivative Works and AI-Generated Material A.

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The IPKat

MARCH 22, 2024

Taylor however retained the copyrights over the compositions she created, enabling her to (re-)publish the music independently. Her publisher Universal Music released a compilation album including songs she did not approve, while she also objected to the way the songs were edited.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

While the vast majority are not at all unwilling to embrace the technology, results also show that 95% of members would like to be at least informed if their work is used to train an AI machine, most would also like to be remunerated [Note that the survey results are not yet published]. In this context, Mr Blackmore of AI Caramba!

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The IP Law Blog

MAY 5, 2022

Berkovitz alleged that the Defendants infringed his exclusive right to reproduce, make copies, distribute, or create derivative works by publishing the midterm exam and final exam on the Course Hero Website without permission. His complaint named John Does 1-5 as placeholders for the students to be identified during discovery.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 27, 2022

Shosh and Yuval must prove that Top Gun: Maverick is a derivative of the Story and that Paramount – with notice of the termination of rights – proceeded to make and publish Top Gun: Maverick after the notice. However, Paramount may have a countermove or defense to avoid the salvos.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 27, 2022

Shosh and Yuval must prove that Top Gun: Maverick is a derivative of the Story and that Paramount – with notice of the termination of rights – proceeded to make and publish Top Gun: Maverick after the notice. However, Paramount may have a countermove or defense to avoid the salvos.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

While the occasional commercial use of a tattoo in a video game remains rare, tattooers use copyrighted material in their work on a regular basis. It’s also far more likely that major publishers and studios have timely registered their works, entitling them to statutory damages.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Section 4 of the 1914 Act provided for the modification of copyright as regards the translation of works first published in British India. For works initially published in British India, the copyright for translating, producing, reproducing, performing, or publishing is limited to ten years from the first publication.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 16, 2021

Second, if the person who does the remastering wishes to obtain copyright, they should not limit themself to contributions that are too mechanical or minimal, as the latter would be unlikely to be considered original derivative works. 2018 New York University Law Review, p. by Tito Rendas. € by Martin Senftleben. €

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Velocity of Content

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Creative Commons licenses come in different flavors (and different versions ; if you opt to use one on your work, it is probably prudent to use the most recent version—and even more likely prudent to make sure you understand what it actually says). CC licenses are not per se “online only” but they are impractical offline.)

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The IPKat

JANUARY 25, 2022

The cover provides the requisite information—title, author, and publisher. Indeed, it is Benjamin's notion of the aura, where each work of art has its own unique setting, which underscores just how derivative its use is when applied to a book cover. But it also includes the reproduction of a portrait of a young woman.

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Kashishipr

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Each work has various rights, such as theatrical rights, distribution rights, rental rights, broadcasting rights, rights related to adoption and translation, rights to prepare derivative works, and so on, each of which can be exploited separately. These rights can be disjointedly assigned for a limited term or perpetually.

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