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Kanye West Faces A Copyright Infringement Lawsuit: Is “Fair Use” Fair?

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Music, Def Jam Recordings and Universal Music Group. The allegedly infringing sample is used on “Come to Life”, a song featured on his 2021 album “Donda”. To incorporate a sound recording into a new musical work, artists must obtain “clearance” or permission from the copyright holder.

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SCOTUS Rules Andy Warhol’s Prince Portraits Are Not Fair Use

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Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Andy Warhol’s portraits of music legend Prince did not qualify as fair use under copyright law. Acuff-Rose Music, which held that a work is transformative if it adds something new and has a different purpose or character. In a closely watched copyright case, the U.S.

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Comedy Group's 'Grease' Parody Is Deemed Fair Use

IP Law 360

A sketch comedy group on Thursday successfully convinced a New York federal judge that its play "Vape: The Musical" is a parody of the film version of the musical "Grease" and is therefore protected under copyright law's fair use doctrine.

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Justices Weigh In On Fair Use, Pop Culture In Warhol Fight

IP Law 360

A copyright battle over Andy Warhol's portraits of music icon Prince has revealed some of the U.S. Supreme Court's own pop culture tastes, as the justices on Wednesday grappled with arguments on how the courts should decide when an artwork qualifies as fair use.

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How to Distinguish Transformative Fair Uses From Infringing Derivative Works?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Supreme Court agreed to review the Second Circuit’s ruling that Andy Warhol’s series of colorful prints and drawings of Prince were not transformative fair uses of Lynn Goldsmith’s photograph (for a previous comment on this case, see here ). Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. Goldsmith, 11 F.4th 4th 26 (2d Cir.

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Isn’t it time for the “Fair Use Bill of Rights?”

LexBlog IP

Fair Use needs to be more predictable. Here is a quick list of 5 items that should be considered “fair use” under the copyright laws. This should be codified as a “Fair Use Bill of Rights.” using a short 5-second audio or video clip, sound effect, music clip, etc.)

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Book Review: Music Borrowing and Copyright Law

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This is a review of Music Borrowing and Copyright Law, a Genre-by-Genre Analysis , edited by Enrico Bonadio (City, University of London) and Chen Wei Zhu (University of Birmingham). Heald suggests that Aplin and Bently offer one half of the response, and this volume provides the other, within the music context.

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