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3 Count: Extrinsic vs. Intrinsic

Plagiarism Today

1: Supreme Court Leaves in Place Circuit Split Regarding Approach for Assessing Substantial Similarity in Copyrighted Works. 2: Judge Says ‘Vape’ Musical Parody May Go On as ‘Grease’ Copyright Claim Flops. This also prompted the creators of Vape to file a proactive lawsuit, seeking a declaration of non-infringement.

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Protection Of Fictional Character’s Copyright And The Doctrine Of Fair Use In The Digital Age

IP and Legal Filings

Consumers are invited to use and transmit “bites” of copyrighted content via social networking sites, mobile television via cell phones and other handheld devices, online mobile game units with WiFi and other interactive capability, interactive television, and a variety of other interactive technologies. In DC Comics Inc.

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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. HLG ultimately filed suit for copyright infringement.

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Copyrightability of a Programming Language

Patently-O

Although the Supreme Court eventually sided with Google on fair use grounds, it did not disturb the Federal Circuit’s copyrightability decision that strongly supported copyright protection even for functional software. Grogan, Copyright Protection for Command Driven Interfaces , 12 COMPUTER L. 1821 (2013).

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Parody under the Copyright Law

IP and Legal Filings

Since copying was for the purpose of criticism, it amounted to fair dealing and did not constitute infringement of the copyright. Hindustan Coco-Cola claimed the defence of parody, however, the Court restraining Hindustan Coco cola to use such sentence held that such commercial was a colourable imitation of Pepsi Co.’s

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Why SNL’s “Muppets” Parody Had Even the Media Fooled

Copyright Lately

And putting aside its pure entertainment value, the sketch also raises some interesting questions about just how much of an original work may be taken before parodic fair use crosses the line into copyright infringement. The Supreme Court’s seminal fair use decision, Campbell v.

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IP Issues in The World of Japanese Sequential Art – Manga

IIPRD

There is no question of fair use as although it is not commercially beneficial but it is neither limited to private use. However, the US Court has held Napster [2] , which was a file-sharing platform as well, guilty of infringing copyrighted materials and was denied the defence of fair use.

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