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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. THE DOCTRINE OF FAIR USE.

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Plagiarism Police come for Winston & Strawn

Patently-O

I believe that Winston & Strawn will eventually prevail based upon a fair use defense, but it is still an embarrassing situation for the firm and attorneys involved. The court ruled in favor of the defendants, holding that their use of the briefs constituted “fair use” under the Section 107 of the Copyright Act.

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

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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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EUIPO Fifth Board of Appeal rules out that sale of spare parts for Ferrari’s Testarossa is genuine use of the trade mark

The IPKat

Ferrari also failed to show that third parties had to obtain express consent upon selling the vehicles on the second-hand/spare parts market. According to the Board, the reference to the trade marks by traders only amounted to qualified descriptive use, in the context of exhaustion or fair use, pursuant to Articles 15 and 14 EUTMR.

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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

In the United States, the Copyright Act outlines the concept of fair use – situations where usage does not require authorization. Supreme Court concluded that (1) the use of the Prince Series by the magazine was commercial since a license fee was paid. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press , 2003, p.

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Logos Remain Relevant: Source Confusion and Design Patent Infringement

Patently-O

418 (2003). The touchstone is whether ordinary consumers in the relevant market are likely to be confused about the source of the goods. What that means is that design patents are often used to protect brand identifiers as commercial source signifiers. Moseley v. V Secret Catalogue, Inc. , Lubecore Int’l, Inc. , 3d 494 (6th Cir.

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IP Issues in The World of Japanese Sequential Art – Manga

IIPRD

Afterward, the second world war did pose an interruption in the steady growth but in turn, it scaled the manga market to a whole new different level in 1947. There is no question of fair use as although it is not commercially beneficial but it is neither limited to private use. For content piracy, Takeshobo Inc.,

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