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Legal Analysis Of Copyright Issues In YouTube And Other Social Media Content

IP and Legal Filings

Copyright violations through internet use are governed by the Information Technology Act and Rule 2001. Even while the fair use doctrine can protect violators if they are using it for educational purposes, copyright problems with social media platforms in India are becoming worse every day. 1 (2022). [5]

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U.S. Supreme Court Vindicates Photographer But Destabilizes Fair Use — Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

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.

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A Work of Art? Ninth Circuit Analyzes Foreign Judgments and Fair Use

JD Supra Law

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit analyzed the fair use doctrine of US copyright law in a dispute for recognition of a 2001 French judgment relating to a finding of copyright infringement of certain photographic works featuring the art of Pablo Picasso.

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Photographs Taken 91 Years Ago Still in Conflict Today

IPilogue

In 1998, the French courts ruled that the photographs were used for documentary purposes , and thus were not entitled to copyright protection. This, however, was reversed in 2001 with a ruling against Wofsy, who became responsible for 10,000 francs per infraction.

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Show the pictures to your clients and say “this is descriptive fair use”: Solid 21 v Breitling (2d Circuit RED GOLD)

LexBlog IP

Plaintiff has been suing various wristwatch companies over the use of the term RED GOLD. Though the term “rose gold” is commonly used today, references to “red gold” continue; from 2001 to 2017, the Wristwatch Annual included more than 1,300 references to “red gold” by fifty-three different watchmakers.”

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The 5 Worst Copyright Decisions of 2021

Copyright Lately

Instead of directly deciding whether the Java API declaring code copied by Google to create its Android smartphone platform was even subject to copyright protection in the first place, the court shoehorned the copyrightability question into a fair use analysis. Wilmott Storage Services.

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SDNY: Use of Photojournalists’ 9/11 Footage May Be Fair Use

LexBlog IP

Photographs of these and other somber scenes from downtown Manhattan on September 11, 2001 formed the basis of photojournalist Anthony Fioranelli’s copyright infringement case against several media organizations that allegedly used these photos without permission. A firefighter digging through rubble.