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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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Checklist of Issues on Generative IP

Kluwer Copyright Blog

It involves several IP rights, some of which overlap in some cases: copyright, trademarks, patents, trade secrets/confidential information, and the right of publicity (and similar rights with different names). Fair use in US ( Google Books but reuse pattern different here. Fair dealing c. Copyright 1.

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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. Vidal, 2021-2347 (Fed. April 8, 2022).

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IP Reveries: Class 4.1 Ruminating on the “R – Rights” of IPR!

SpicyIP

Jentham : ( continuing Nya’s idea ) For e.g. take the ‘Free Speech – Copyright – Fair use’ relationship: when the focus is on ‘right’, we may just overlook that (as some would argue) free speech is to copyright, as copyright is to fair use. I’d rather scrutinize it further and ask – exclude what?

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Free Certificate Course in Application of Intellectual Property Rights for Startups and Entrepreneurship [November 22- 23]

SpicyIP

As owners of their intellect, inventors of intellectual properties have a natural right to exclusively commercialise the products of their minds. Comprehend the concept, rationale, and significance of Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks. The course is being supported by Texas A&M University School of Law.