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The Much-Adapted “Peter Pan” (1904 – Forever )

Velocity of Content

All copyrights, except one, expire.*. Preface: I wanted to learn more about the concept (and applications) of “derivative works” and adaptations under copyright law, and I was searching for a useful example that might also be interesting for readers of Velocity of Content to read about.

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Evolution of Tests of Creativity in Copyrights

IP and Legal Filings

Originality is the quality that distinguishes produced or invented works from copies, clones, forgeries, or derivative works by being new or novel. It does demand, however, that no part of the work be plagiarised. It must be the author’s original work. can have copyright. 6] [2004] 1 SCR 339. [7]

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13 Spooky Copyright Cases, Just in Time for Halloween

Copyright Lately

” In 2004, video game publisher Capcom contacted MKR, the film’s producer, to inquire about about obtaining a license to use elements from the film in one of its games. Bottom line is that the masks were equally freaky, but not substantially similar as a matter of copyright law. Dawn of the Dead.

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Oops, I sampled again… The meaning of ‘pastiche’ as an autonomous concept under EU copyright law

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The facts of the case are all too familiar by now: in 2004, German band Kraftwerk took hip hop producer Moses Pelham to court for copyright infringement after he sampled two seconds of their song “Metall auf Metall” and looped it in Sabrina Setlur’s track “Nur Mir”. Although AG Crúz Villalon argued in his Opinion (para.