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

Velocity of Content

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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Ninth Circuit Reaffirms the “Server Test” for Direct Infringement of the Public Display Right — Hunley v. Instagram, LLC (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

As a practical matter, the answer is certainly yes; an open system is built into the design of the internet. It is hornbook law that secondary liability of all kinds requires proof that direct infringement is occurring. The question is whether the same is true as a legal matter.) Cherry Auction, Inc. , 3d 259, 262, 264 (9th Cir.

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Maybe Duct Tape Can’t Fix Everything: Slippery Standards As Copyright Goes Bananas

LexBlog IP

Whether one focuses on the word’s connotation of silliness or excitement, or maybe even anger , or analogizes to the raucous and rhymingly-named team from Savannah that makes up its own baseball rules , US copyright law is currently going a little “bananas.” ” Said, Reforming Copyright Interpretation, 28 Harv.