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YouTube Wins Partial Summary Judgment in Maria Schneider Copyright Lawsuit

TorrentFreak

Schneider’s first amended complaint alleged that YouTube and its users infringed her copyrighted musical compositions and sound recordings, and that YouTube facilitated infringement by removing copyright management information (CMI) from her copyright works, in violation of the DMCA. YouTube’s Licensing Defense.

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IP Protection of NFTs: A Comparative Look at the US and China

IP Tech Blog

Given that NFTs are the result of digital work that is transported in images, videos, photography and other forms of digital media, copyright seems to be the closest IP right to protect both the source code of the digital work, as well as its derivative works. Is this the same in the US and China? The United States.

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3 Count: Swimsuit Edition

Plagiarism Today

First off today, Kevin Shalvey at Business Insider reports that “Sports Illustrated” swimsuit model Genevieve Morton has filed a lawsuit against Twitter alleging that the site was slow to remove infringing material and that an AI photo editing tool created unlawful derivative works.

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IP Protection of NFTs: A Comparative Look at the US and China

LexBlog IP

Given that NFTs are the result of digital work that is transported in images, videos, photography and other forms of digital media, copyright seems to be the closest IP right to protect both the source code of the digital work, as well as its derivative works. Is this the same in the US and China? The United States.

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Warhol v. Goldsmith, purpose, and character

43(B)log

Professor Reese’s Transformativeness and the Derivative Work Right , 31 Colum. & Arts 467 (2008), whose analysis I followed in Content, Purpose, or Both? Moreover, evaluating every single use of a newly created work for fairness seems like a really bad idea.

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IPSC Breakout Session #5 Platforms & Interfaces/IP Enforcement

43(B)log

The problem is that this system fell apart around 2008-2012 when smartphones came out. At the same time, the risk of copying essentially went away. So now, we have lots of protection for implementation where we don’t need it and no protection for interfaces where new entrants can easily be copied. That’s more problematic.

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