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Donald C. Brace Memorial Lecture by Professor David Vaver – “User Rights: Fair Use and Beyond”

IPilogue

This past Monday, Osgoode’s very own Professor David Vaver delivered the 2021 Brace lecture on “User Rights: Fair Use and Beyond” as the series’ very first international speaker from outside the United States. The Court of Appeal unanimously held that the scope and content of the fair dealing defence should include works of criticism.

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Exploring the Various Facets of Copyrights in Digital Spaces

IP and Legal Filings

This exclusive rights comprises of the right to copy, distribute, perform, license or adapt the work. While digitization has immensely benefited copyright related transactions in the digital space, issues such as unauthorized copying, plagiarism and infringement continues to plague several domains. Today, we live in a wired world.

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Chain Reaction: Did the Beastie Boys Sue the Wrong Restaurant?

Copyright Lately

In November 2002, Novak—who famously starred in an episode of The Office set at a Chili’s restaurant —approached Chili’s about a collaboration with Chain. Still, whichever restaurant ends up defending this action will likely assert that using 24 seconds of the song was a parody or otherwise fair use.

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Cloned-and-Revised Legal Documents Aren’t Copyrightable–UIRC v. William Blair

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

There was no question about the copying–the revised William Blair documents sloppily retained references to UIRC). Instead, it copied much of the language from the Idaho materials. Even if the verbatim copying qualifies as putative infringement, many republications are likely to be covered by fair use.

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Hot Take on the Wavy Baby Decision (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

2d 410, 414-415 (SDNY 2002)) that the Supreme Court expressly used to “offer as one last example” of “a case with a striking resemblance” in which the Rogers test was cabined. Thus, we learn nothing from the Second Circuit about how the new trademark use test should be applied going forward. Nature Labs, LLC , 221 F.

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The clash of artistic rights: Warhol, Goldsmith, and the boundaries of copyright in Brazil and in the U.S.

Kluwer Copyright Blog

An example would be an artist copying a previous painting and merely altering the colors to pass it off as a new creation. In the United States, the Copyright Act outlines the concept of fair use – situations where usage does not require authorization. O fair use no direito autoral. 01, out/2002, p.

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[Guest post] Horological IP and the customization of watches

The IPKat

This has created a market where the distinction between inspiration (homage=good) and copying (theft=bad) is sometimes difficult to apply. In a recent article see here ), writer Anthony Traina expresses it aptly: “The problem with these types of watches has never been inspiration, but when imitation poses as inspiration.”

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