Fri.Apr 23, 2021

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Andy Warhol Foundation Seeks Rehearing in Fair Use Case

Copyright Lately

The Andy Warhol Foundation (AWF) is asking the Second Circuit to reconsider its recent fair use ruling over Warhol’s “Prince Series,” arguing that the decision “threatens to render unlawful many of the most historically significant artistic works of the last half-century.”. As I discussed last month here on Copyright Lately , in March the Second Circuit held that Andy Warhol’s use of photos of the pop icon Prince wasn’t “transformative” and therefore didn’t qualify as fair use under the Co

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Copyright Infringement Case: Google LLC v. Oracle America Inc.

Intepat

Please read our previous post which gives the basic idea of the landmark dispute between the two software giants. Google petitioned the US Supreme Court to hear the case in the 2019 Term but was heard in April 2021 due to the Covid-19 Pandemic. Brief Background: Android which is owned by Google LLC used Java’s Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for building their Android Operating System for Mobile devices from 2005.

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Ghomeshi v. Strongvolt, Inc., No. 2019-1850, 2021 WL 1343355, at *1 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 12, 2021)

Intellectual Property Brief

In the “StrongVolt Case,” an electronic goods trademark is voided under the use in commerce requirement for a valid registration. In 2009, Matey Michael Ghomeshi.

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Look What Copyright Law Made Her Do

JIPEL Copyright Blog

Taylor Swift is notorious for hiding secret messages in her lyrics , music videos , and social media. Her fans waste no time in decoding even her most apparently innocuous posts. Last May, she shared that she was “Very Stoked” about a band called Jack Leopards and the Dolphin Club covering her song “Look What You Made Me Do.” There seemed nothing particularly odd about Swift’s tweet – except that the band didn’t exist.

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?