Velocity of Content
OCTOBER 19, 2021
wrote into the statute) the well-known four fair use factors which provide guidance for assessing whether, in cases of alleged infringement, an unauthorized use ought to be considered a fair use. One section of the new law, Section 107, codified (i.e.,
IPilogue
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Television producers need to be careful to ensure that they are not mimicking real-life businesses too closely to offer their fictitious shows some realism. Netflix eventually settled with Chooseco in late 2020 after unsuccessfully arguing on grounds related to trademark law and fair use allowances. . How similar is too similar?
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Copyright Lately
JANUARY 13, 2023
and 20th Century-Fox Records argued that, because King had distributed advance copies of the speech to the press without restricting them from reproducing or distributing it further (and without the copyright notice required under copyright law at the time), the speech was in the public domain. The defendants, Mister Maestro, Inc.
Velocity of Content
JUNE 8, 2022
Beginning in 1955, adaptations of the stage play for television begin. And the 1911 content reused in these works may actually be in the public domain already. This is probably a good place to pause and explain the concept of “derivative works” in copyright.
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.
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.
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. Signal 23 Television v. New Destiny Church. * ‘Reaction’ Video Protected By Fair Use–Hosseinzadeh v.
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