Copyright Lately

AUGUST 2, 2022

While Barlow & Bear may now try to argue that their work constitutes fair use, it’s a weak defense in this case. The Musical Parody ,” “The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical” isn’t the type of parody musical that courts have often found to be fair use under the Copyright Act.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 18, 2023

Presumably afraid that a decision one way or the other would move financial markets and have unforeseen consequences, the Court assumed the declaring code was protected by copyright and decided the case on fair use. ” A fair use of declaring code might not be a fair use of implementing code.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The court also credits the self-serving claim by the successor licensee that it considered fair use by comparing the works and evaluating if the works were being sold commercially or for other purposes. OK, I guess, but this is a reminder of how hard it is to win 512(f). Signal 23 Television v.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JULY 19, 2022

Recognize the subtleties of fair use. If you can’t get permission, you can still freely use original work for non-commercial purposes if you are aware of your rights under fair use. Before using someone else’s creation, consider how your actions will affect its market worth.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Apart from revolutionizing the creative markets, the ability to obtain new artworks with an increasing marginalization of human contribution has inevitably tested the fitness of copyright legislations all over the world to deal with the so-called “artificial intelligence” (‘AI’). ChatGPT , Smodin ), to perform music (i.e., Secondly, para.

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Larson & Larson

JUNE 21, 2021

However, this depends on the publication date. After the expiry of the copyright protection period, the work becomes available in the public domain. This means that any member of the public can have unrestricted access to your work. In the same token, work for hire tends to last for a period of 95 and 120 years.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

And many of the sites where the data is collected also have prohibitions on automated data collection and web scraping in their terms of use. Platforms that copy online data and use it to create AI have a strong fair use argument under copyright laws. But fair use isn’t a defense to a breach of contract claim.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 3, 2023

The future of “controlled digital lending” is in doubt after a court rules that the Internet Archive’s online library is not protected by fair use. IA’s Open Library project includes millions of public domain books that users can download and read without restriction. It also includes 3.6

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Significant amounts of content are also available through the public domain. Copyrighted materials are licensed for AI use directly by rightsholders and collectively through rights aggregators such as CCC. Our current AI-related offerings are focused on the corporate, research, academic and education markets. TVEyes, Inc.,

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43(B)log

AUGUST 3, 2023

Michael Carroll (w/ Peter Jaszi), Fair Use After Google and Warhol Codification is a big deal; clarifies that fair use is a distinct doctrine, whereas well into 20th century courts were using it as noninfringement. Courts weren’t using four factors before that. We don’t even get into the market stuff.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

Copyright simply establishes limited exclusive rights to perform specified actions in relation to protected works, which owners may exchange for whatever value the market happens to ascribe to them. data —reside).

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Gripers and Political Critics Cases involving criticism of ordinary commercial actors provide a fascinating contrast to both noncommercial speech sold in the market and to political and religious conflicts. Thus, it may not even be descriptive fair use to use the name of the religion from which the dissenters have parted.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

But socially valuable innovations can be difficult to marketize/commodify. Restrict derivative right to adaptations/forms of representations that change medium, not works in same primary market. public domain. Would it allow fair use? Denying injunctive relief may support the public interest, TD Bank v.

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 20, 2022

But also, the documentaries weren’t substantially similar, and, “even if the 2013 Documentary is substantially similar to the 2001 Documentary under the fragmented literal similarity test due its use of clips from the 2001 Documentary, Plaintiffs’ claim with respect to this documentary is barred by the fair use doctrine.”

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43(B)log

JUNE 24, 2022

Ornamental use may help to maintain rights even if core uses cease. Can it be used in different ways in TM as a thumb on the scale rather than a binary? 2d Cir in Descriptive fair use—how “pure” is the descriptive character of the use? Why not have it across all consumer markets?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

As Professor Farley and I discuss in Part II of our paper, several circuits require a commercial use of the mark for infringement (or an exception for noncommercial speech) and dismiss lawsuits without applying all of the likelihood of confusion factors if the unauthorized use of the mark is not commercial speech. Redbubble, Inc. ,

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 28, 2023

Niklas Jansson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons On 30 December 2022, the Italian Supreme Court ( Corte di Cassazione ) issued an order that intervened again on the interpretation of the quotation exception under Article 70 of the Italian Copyright Act ( l. 633/1941 , l.aut.).

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43(B)log

JUNE 24, 2022

In the fair use calculus? In what ways is the ornamental nature of a defendant’s use relevant to defences based on artistic or expressive use (or some other defence)? Defenses: we don’t have fair use as a catchall; specific list of enumerated defenses. But there is a defense for nondistinctive use.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Be willing to let go of shorthands: LOC is probably not a useful concept for what TM is actually doing now; so too with distinctiveness and source identification in a world of licensing and outsourcing and merchandising. Courts get outpaced by market. But the test doesn’t say 1A every time; you just use the test.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Sixth, assuming Woodward published copyrighted material without Trump’s authorization, was he permitted to do so, either as a fair use, or by the First Amendment? If the work was published without proper copyright notice, the work entered the public domain. This strikes me as the wrong result. 2d at 206. (The

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