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Court to Revisit Fair Use in Tattoo Infringement Case

Copyright Lately

Fischer denied both parties’ motions for summary judgment, finding triable issues of substantial similarity and fair use. Among other things, the court held that there was a factual dispute as to whether or not defendants’ purpose in using Sedlik’s image of Miles Davis was “commercial.”

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There’s More to Copyright Than Financial Incentives, Internet Archive Argues in Court

TorrentFreak

Lawsuit and Appeal Internet Archive believes that its approach falls under fair use but publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley, and Penguin Random House disagree. Among other things, IA argued that its lending activity causes no financial harm is substantially different from the ebook licensing market.

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X Corp. v. Bright Data is the Decision We’ve Been Waiting For (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

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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First duel between NFTs and copyright before the Spanish courts: NFTs 1 – Authors 0

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Furthermore, it is debatable whether the creation of NFTs can be considered “fair use”, since (i) this generates a “new” public and a new “digital” market for artworks that, to date, only existed in the real world and (ii) it deprives de facto copyright holders of a potential source of income.

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What Goldsmith Means to AI Trainers

IP Intelligence

Sy Damle, (2016-2018 General Counsel) testified that “the training of AI models will generally fall within the established bounds of fair use.” (S. The district court agreed, but was reversed by the Second Circuit, which found the degree of new expression insufficient to justify a finding of fair use. Goldsmith , 598 S.

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Court Orders Unmasking Subpoena of Alleged Infringers–Baugher v. GoDaddy

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

This fast lane is a historical anachronism; it does little to balance the privacy interests of the alleged infringer. Knowing what we know now about the dangers of unmasking subpoenas, I would like to think that Congress would draft 512(h) with more privacy sensitivity today. The bloggers countered with fair use.

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Twitter Can’t Quash a 512(h) Subpoena

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The court says that instead of doing a First Amendment analysis, it’s possible that a fair use analysis is sufficient for 512(h) subpoenas (citing Eldred for the principle that fair use is the First Amendment safety valve to copyright infringement). Q2 2015 Quick Links, Part 1 (IP, Marketing and More).

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