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The Interplay Between Copyright Licensing and Exclusive Rights: AI Edition

Velocity of Content

This article originally appeared in The Scholarly Kitchen Copyright Licensing and Human Advancement Copyright licensing, that is, the granting of permission to reuse copyright works, has likely existed as long as copyright. Collective copyright licensing is nearly as old, generally viewed as dating from 1777.

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Internet Archive: Digital Lending is Fair Use, Not Copyright Infringement

TorrentFreak

Mass Copyright Infringement or Fair Use? The publishers are not against libraries per se, nor do they object to ebook lending, but ‘authorized’ libraries typically obtain an official license or negotiate specific terms. The Internet Archive has no license. threatens) the traditional ebook lending market.

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How to Distinguish Transformative Fair Uses From Infringing Derivative Works?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Supreme Court agreed to review the Second Circuit’s ruling that Andy Warhol’s series of colorful prints and drawings of Prince were not transformative fair uses of Lynn Goldsmith’s photograph (for a previous comment on this case, see here ). Hence, the Foundation’s use was non-transformative. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.

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Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith: The Supreme Court Revisits Transformative Fair Uses

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Orbison song could be fair use because it transformed the original song by adding something new, with a different purpose, or a new meaning or message. have grappled with how broadly or narrowly to interpret the concept of transformativeness when assessing fair use defenses to charges of copyright infringement.

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GTA Modders to Court: Our Game Fixes & Enhancements Are Fair Use, Not Piracy

TorrentFreak

Affirmative Defense – Fair Use. Right off the bat, the defendants assert that anything they did in connection with their GTA 3 and Vice City projects were actions protected by fair use under the Copyright Act. The doctrine of fair use bars the relief sought by Plaintiff,” the response adds.

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Copyright Infringement in edited photographs

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Often such audience, who can easily access any photograph, use these photographs after making certain modifications to them through photo-editing software like Photoshop, Adobe and many other photo modification tools. Thus, the question arises if such use attracts copyright infringement. Firstly, the exception of fair use.

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Trump loses motion to dismiss Electric Avenue case on fair use grounds

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Fair use can rarely be decided on a motion to dismiss, the court said, and this wasn’t one of those cases. Here, there was no editing of the “lyrics, vocals, or instrumentals at all.” Cariou , by contrast, involved fair uses where works were “obscured and altered to the point that [they were] barely recognizable.”