Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

Supreme Court affirmed the Second Circuit’s ruling that the reproduction of Andy Warhol’s Orange Prince on the cover of a magazine tribute was not a fair use of Lynn Goldsmith’s photo of the singer-songwriter Prince, on which the Warhol portrait was based. This has important implications for the doctrine of fair use.

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 10, 2024

For their part, some GenAI companies like OpenAI argue that there is no infringement, either because there is no “copying” of protected materials or that the copyright principle of fair use uniformly applies to generative AI activities. These arguments are deeply flawed and gloss over crucial technical and legal issues.

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Velocity of Content

APRIL 11, 2024

For their part, some GenAI companies like OpenAI argue that there is no infringement, either because there is no “copying” of protected materials or that the copyright principle of fair use uniformly applies to generative AI activities. Copyright and technology both move society forward. Supporters of fair use point to a U.S.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 3, 2022

The school moved to dismiss on fair use grounds, and the district court granted the motion and awarded attorneys’ fees to the school. (I Bell appealed to the Fifth Circuit, which easily affirms the fair use dismissal and attorneys’ fees. Nature of the Use. ” Bell sued anyways. Nature of the Work.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 2, 2023

The Supreme Court recently upheld an appellate court’s ruling that Andy Warhol’s use of a photograph of Prince as a reference for a collection of screen prints is not fair use – to the extent his foundation decided to license them at least. Goldsmith et al, Case No. Goldsmith et al, Case No.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

The jury needed only 90 minutes to determine that the defendants had proven their implied license defense, ending the case. Due to the fact-specific nature of doctrines like implied licenses and fair use, it’s possible the Hayden and Orton jury verdicts are consistent with each other.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

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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TorrentFreak

MARCH 25, 2024

Publishers vs. Internet Archive The self-scanning service offered by the Internet Archive (IA) differs from the licensing agreements entered into by other libraries. Internet Archive’s theory of fair use represents a threat just as grave.” Thus, its actions are decidedly not protected by fair use,” their brief reads.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 2, 2023

Getty Images, a global visual content creator and leading source for visual content, has filed a lawsuit against startup technology company Stability AI for allegedly scraping more than 12 million photographs from Getty Images’ portfolio without consent or compensation. This is a complex issue dealing with sophisticated technology.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 18, 2024

Publishers vs. Internet Archive The self-scanning approach differs from the licensing deals other libraries enter into. Publishers Respond to IA’s Appeal IA argued that its scanning-and-lending activities amount to fair use. “In short, IA’s practice of CDL is radical and unlawful.

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IP Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2023

Sy Damle, (2016-2018 General Counsel) testified that “the training of AI models will generally fall within the established bounds of fair use.” (S. At the time Goldsmith was also licensing her original photograph to several magazines that were also writing articles about Prince’s life and music. Damle introductory statement, Tr.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The case involves ShutterStock, a photo licensing service. (We We used ShutterStock as the blog’s image provider for several years). ShutterStock has a “contributor” program that allows anyone to upload photos into their licensing database in exchange for a fee if licensed.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Publishers vs. Internet Archive The self-scanning service is different from the licensing deals other libraries enter into. According to the Authors Alliance, IA’s digital ebook library is a prime example of a service that should be permitted to operate as fair use, as it benefits both writers and readers.

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 9, 2023

From Large Language Models (LLMs) to other research-based applications, AI technologies rely on millions of books, scholarly journals, and other curated publications. Responsibly using these works is a foundational part of the discussion. Click below to listen to the latest episode of the Velocity of Content podcast.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

The “Platform Policy” appears to grant a broad license to users of the API. The current terms make clear that platform API users are not automatically granted a license and must independently secure rights in any content they embed. Fair use is also an issue best left for trial : Newsweek also argued fair use.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 12, 2021

The court notes the language of section 106 reflects an intent to be “technology-neutral”. Fair use : The court also grapples with fair use. Citing to Barcroft and McGucken , the court says that the “photograph itself is the subject of the story” so this weighs in favor of fair use.

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Velocity of Content

MAY 1, 2024

29 town hall, The Heart of the Matter: Copyright, AI Training and LLMs, presented a comprehensive case that AI systems do infringe copyrights and called for a licensing system to compensate content owners. Fair use loomed large among those rights. The presentation wove together technical principles and legal arguments.

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Velocity of Content

AUGUST 9, 2022

Vanity Fair (magazine) took a license to use and modify the image for its magazine and hired Warhol to use his artistic talents to develop a new image. Goldsmith realized what had happened—that Warhol had made over a dozen works based on her photograph, the majority of which had not been licensed.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 6, 2023

With 34 questions asked about both copyright and technology, some parties responses exceed 100 pages. Significant amounts of content are available through licenses, including open licenses such as CC BY and CC BY-NC. To what extent are copyrighted works licensed from copyright owners for use as training materials?

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IP Tech Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Netflix moved to dismiss the complaint on, among other grounds, fair use. In finding in defendant’s favor, the Court weighed the different factors of the Fair Use Doctrine. Accordingly, the court found against the tattoo artist because Netflix’s use was “fair use.” Lynn Goldsmith, et al. ,

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 2, 2022

Nature of Use. It wasn’t possible to use only a portion of the photo to depict melancholy, so I guess the court is saying Kat Von D should have picked a different image altogether? This factor weighs against fair use. Market Effect. ” This is another jury issue. .” ” This is another jury issue.

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IP Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

If restrictions are placed on the fair use defense and/or a compulsory licensing regime implemented for models that used copyrighted content, such restrictions might apply to computer vision models that enable surgical robotics and autonomous vehicles.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

2K Games rejected similar infringement claims on the basis of de minimis use, implied license, and fair use. To briefly summarize, the court left the fair use question entirely to the jury, despite its own pre-trial order and the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Google v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 17, 2024

While this conflict might seem minor (X’s users, after all, are not in the business of granting scraping licenses), the next one was not: Fair use. Judge Alsup suggested that X’s ToS conflict with copyright law by prohibiting scraping irrespective of whether it qualifies as fair use. The post X Corp.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

That order actually topped my list of the 5 Worst Copyright Decisions of 2020 because, by sending the case to a jury, the court effectively ruled that anyone with a tattoo is not in control of the uses to which his or her likeness is put. Implied License and Fair Use Are the Key Remaining Defenses. There’s a lot at stake.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 2, 2023

It’s time to start paying attention though, because a Delaware District Court judge just ordered this low-profile AI case to trial, largely denying the parties’ motions for summary judgment on copyright infringement and fair use (read the opinion here). These copies, Ross claims, are fair use. Thomson Reuters v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

” They mostly are a licensing organization, and their registrations are in a wide range of classes: “from articles of clothing and snacks to ‘orthopaedic foot cushions’ and ‘[p]atient safety restraints.'” GmbH has registered trademarks in the dictionary word “Emoji.” That’s messed up.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

As the UK Government grapples with how to address the new technological landscape of artificial intelligence, several Committee Inquiries are underway to consider if or how the Government should intervene, including the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee on Large Language Modules, at which this Kat was invited to provide evidence.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 16, 2023

I speculated that this was an attempt to avoid a messy fair use dispute. As I also mentioned, Microsoft’s lawyers seem to think that fair use excuses copying for AI purposes everywhere, so I would expect Microsoft to try that defense here, given its lack of other arguments. is being used as code.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 31, 2023

The Court held that the first factor of the copyright fair use test favored respondent photographer, Lynn Goldsmith, rather than petitioner, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (“AWF”). Vanity Fair engaged Andy Warhol to create an illustration based on Goldsmith’s photograph for use in the magazine.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 26, 2021

It started out in 2010 when Oracle sued Google for copying the application programming interfaces (APIs) of Java, a programming language developed and licensed by Sun Microsystems and later acquired by Oracle, in Google’s development of the Android operating system. The case meandered through constant reversals of judicial judgements.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 7, 2023

Sy Damle, (2016-2018 General Counsel) testified that “the training of AI models will generally fall within the established bounds of fair use.” At the time Goldsmith was also licensing her original photograph to several magazines that were also writing articles about Prince’s life and music. ” (S.

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Nelligan Law

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

With advancements in tattooing technology, equipment, and artistic styles, the boundaries of skin artistry have expanded exponentially, empowering artists to stretch the limits of creativity and ingenuity. In the realm of tattooing, ascertaining whether a tattoo qualifies as fair use can prove especially challenging.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Instead, she gets a 12(b)(6) dismissal based on fair use. Purpose and Character of Use. ” The court doesn’t address the potential licensing market for the tattoo design. It’s nice to see the court use the Goldsmith case to cement the defense’s fair use win. Or the $50k.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

They allege that Anthropic copies Plaintiffs’ copyrighted song lyrics and its AI chatbot, Claude, then generates those lyrics in response to user prompts—all without a license. The ruling focused on one question: whether the first factor in a fair use analysis, the purpose and character of the use, barred Goldsmith’s claim.

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 11, 2023

We, who have been writing and teaching about copyright law and how it has responded to challenges posed by new technologies for decades, were among those who submitted comments, see [link]. Copyright Office published a Notice of inquiry (“NOI”) and request for comments, Artificial Intelligence and Copyright, Docket No.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 17, 2023

Also, ignoring copyright licenses is at least arguably copyright infringement, and your fair use claim probably won’t get you out of the lawsuit at the motion to dismiss stage. The court also held that the coders did not have standing to seek damages, but they did have standing to pursue injunctive relief. Complaint at 2.

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