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Use of Warhol’s Prince Image Found Not to Be Sufficiently Transformative for Fair Use 

LexBlog IP

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. copyright law, the Supreme Court focused on the actual use made, i.e. what the user does with the original work. copyright law. Copyright law in the U.S.

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The Handwriting is on the IP Wall: Inventors and Content Creators are in the Same Sinking Boat

IP Close Up

When it comes to declining respect for intellectual property rights inventors and content creators, such as photographers, musicians and writers, as well as some trademark Continue reading

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Some Thoughts on Five Pending AI Litigations – Avoiding Squirrels and Other AI Distractions

Velocity of Content

As a person involved in copyright on a daily basis, I’ve observed a number of events and requests for comment over the last few years on the issue of whether artificial intelligence (AI) systems can be “authors” in the copyright sense (or inventors of patents). I speculated that this was an attempt to avoid a messy fair use dispute.

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2H 2022 Quick Links, Part 3 (Copyrights and More)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

31, 2022): When an individual’s decision to disseminate an Instagram post is the “very thing the article [is] reporting on,” the use of the Instagram post and its copyrighted material in the reporting has been deemed sufficiently transformative to support a fair use defense. Evox Productions, LLC v. Verizon Media, Inc.,

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White House Directs Copyright Office and USPTO to Provide Guidance on AI-Related Issues

Trading Secrets

Patent and Trademark Office to provide guidance on IP risks and related regulation to address emerging issues related to AI. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Kathi Vidal, to provide guidance on AI’s role in patent inventorship and support for patent practitioners. Fair Use: The Executive Order encourages data sharing and research.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (August 23 – 29)

SpicyIP

and the socio-legal opportunism of the defendants’ arguments for condonable trademark infringement, set in the backdrop of the ongoing global pandemic. s copyright and registered trademark by thrusting its deceptively similar goods and flooding the high-in-demand but low-in-knowhow market, with its imitation products. Cipla Ltd. ,

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White House Directs Copyright Office and USPTO to Provide Guidance on AI-Related Issues

LexBlog IP

Patent and Trademark Office to provide guidance on IP risks and related regulation to address emerging issues related to AI. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Kathi Vidal, to provide guidance on AI’s role in patent inventorship and support for patent practitioners. The Order calls on the U.S. Copyright Office and U.S.