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Shutterstock: What License Allows Third – Party Transfer?

IP and Legal Filings

Introduction Shutterstock is a global provider of licensed images, videos, audio and editing tools, that has revolutionized the way visual content can be accessed and used. Content creators contribute their work to the platform, making it available for licensing, while end users can easily browse, license and utilize them.

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Plagiarism Police come for Winston & Strawn

Patently-O

2024) A recent copyright infringement lawsuit filed by small Boston intellectual property boutique Hsuanyeh Law Group PC (HLG) against international giant Winston & Strawn LLP focuses a dividing line that can highlight when copying the work of another firm is permissible. Winston & Strawn , 23-cv-11193 (S.D.N.Y. Cannon , 789 N.W.2d

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Beyoncé brings all the samples to the yard and they're like.it's been licenced

The IPKat

The songs, songwriters and the rightsholders Kelis is the performer of a song called “ Milkshake ” that was released in 2003. This has happened because of the way that sample licensing works alongside the two rights. The problem for Kelis is with her producers, not Beyoncé.

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IP and TV series: Netflix's 'The Playlist' shows the rise of Spotify, which turned music piracy into licensed streaming

The IPKat

In a time when the internet existed but the main income of artists and performers was still from selling " copies " of their albums, records, episodes and concerts, he probably would not have even been able to contemplate the existence of a " streaming service " that might change the rules just a few years later.

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New Tools, Old Rules: Is The Music Industry Ready To Take On AI?

Copyright Lately

Companies have to obtain permission and execute a license to use copyrighted content for AI training or other purposes, and we’re committed to maintaining these legal principles.” It isn’t human-readable and does not contain copies of any audio recordings. No wonder I’m getting flashbacks to 2003.

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Prince, Prince, Prints: Will the Supreme Court Revisit Fair Use?

LexBlog IP

A few years later, in 1984, Goldsmith’s agency, which had retained the rights to those images, licensed one of them to Vanity Fair for use in an article called “Purple Fame.” In 1981, Goldsmith, who was then a portrait photographer for Newsweek , took a series of photographs of the then-up-and-coming musician Prince. He did just that.

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If “Trespass to Chattels” Isn’t Limited to “Chattels,” Anarchy Ensues–Best Carpet Values v. Google

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Plaintiffs want and expect Google to copy and display their websites in Chrome browser and Search App, and acknowledge that Google has license to do so.” We need to know more about this license. It seems like this license could be dispositive to the case, but the court doesn’t explore it more. It didn’t.

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