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Let’s Go Hazy: Making Sense of Fair Use After Warhol

Copyright Lately

Five things to know about the Supreme Court’s new purpose-driven fair use opinion in Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith (“ Warhol “) is that relatively rare fair use case in which both the original and follow-on works were more or less directly competing in the same market. Andy Warhol Foundation v.

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Transformation or Derivation: Modern Trends in the Fair Use Doctrine from Software to Photography

IP Watchdog

Fair Use” is a flexible defense to claims of copyright infringement. It is a doctrine that evolves as technology and the way in which people use copyrighted works advance. Naturally, the way courts analyze the “fair use” defense must adapt as technology advances and the way in which creative content is developed evolves.

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When is it Fair Use to Use a Photo to “Illustrate” an Article?

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

One of the practices that has generated a sizeable number of disputes and rulings is the use of photos to illustrate articles. These three cases address fair use in this context. McGucken moved for summary judgment on the fair use defense. The second factor weighs slightly against fair use.

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using competitor's images in comparative advertising is fair use even when appearance isn't being compared

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Creager also alleged that IDT contacted vendors who sell Creager’s products and made defamatory statements; the one that seemed to have an impact was to third party LJD, claiming that Creager was using LJD’s name in “defamatory advertising against my company,” advising that LJD could be “tangled up in litigation.”

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Is Generative AI Fair Use of Copyright Works? NYT v. OpenAI

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Such uses, they argue, constitute copyright infringement. Fair Use Precedent? Google Books and Transformative Use The past two decades have seen a wealth of technological developments, but generative AI is qualitatively different from everything that has come before. But he eventually reversed his own position.

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A 5 Month Check-In on the Copyright Claims Board (CCB)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

,” by Patricia Aufderheide and Aram Sinnreich, reporting on a survey of communications scholars about how they would respond to a CCB claim against them. Of these respondents, 39% would not accept any financial risk for an established fair use, and another 44.4% Among these scholars confident of fair-use, only 3.3%

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3 Count: Unplanned Floors

Plagiarism Today

First off today, Blake Brittain at Reuters reports that the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals has reinstated a copyright infringement lawsuit against the realtors Columbia House of Brokers Realty over the alleged infringement of floor plans. 3: Microsoft is Looking to Use the Ethereum Blockchain to Prevent Piracy.

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