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Year in Review: The Briefing’s Top 3 Podcast Episodes in 2023

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3: What Now for Fair Use After Warhol v. Goldsmith that Andy Warhol’s portrait of music legend Prince did not qualify as fair use under copyright law. As we look back, we want to share The Briefing’s most popular episodes in 2023. Goldsmith The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Andy Warhol Foundation v.

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Warhol’s ‘Orange Prince’ Brought to Court: Part 2 (Arguments from Lynn Goldsmith)

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The question of whether Warhol’s Prince silkscreens may be considered fair use has now made its way up to the US Supreme Court, and on October 12th of this year, oral arguments were heard from both sides.

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Protecting Application Programming Interfaces (API) Through Intellectual Property Laws

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Therefore, most of the APIs are not patentable since they comprise the declaring code and the SSO, which is essentially a source code in a written format having no functionality as such unless implemented through the implementing code. It was regarded as being fair and permissible by the court of law. Copyright and APIs.

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WIPIP Concurrent Session #3: Copyright Doctrine

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Hughes: it was the Fairness in Music Licensing Act, not the DMCA, which was intertwined. E.g., these images were good, so you should apply a quality multiplier; scarce, so you should apply a scarcity multiplier to the standard quoted rate; also P didn’t want to license them so should get an exclusivity multiplier.

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Monday Miscellany

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The Patents Court, the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court (before that, the House of Lords) have all and for many years stressed the need for consistency with decisions of the Boards of Appeal of the EPO. For more information, the programme and registration, click here. Our next Young Experts cohort will join WIPO early 2023.

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Artificial Intelligence and IP: A Literature Review

SpicyIP

It notes that despite the government initiatives to strengthen India’s IP regime, applying the ‘narrowly focused’ and ‘stringent’ patent laws toward AI applications remains challenging. The report states that there are no copyright laws right now that would provide protection to any wholly AI generated model or creation (Page no.

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WIPIP session 2: ™ Doctrine, © Fair Use

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Peter Karol, What’s the Use: The Structural Flaw Undermining Warhol v. Goldsmith SCOTUS understood the “use” to be the foundation’s commercial licensing. But licensing is neither a © use nor an act of infringement. Incoherent to raise/evaluate fair use as to an act that wasn’t a use or infringement.