Copyright Lately

MAY 22, 2023

Five things to know about the Supreme Court’s new purpose-driven fair use opinion in Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith (“ Warhol “) is that relatively rare fair use case in which both the original and follow-on works were more or less directly competing in the same market. Andy Warhol Foundation v.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The copyright claims came down to a fair use analysis, something that has occupied discussions by this poster before. ” With a mixed bag present on the substantial similarity analysis, the District Court moved on to looking at fair use itself. .” Let’s see why.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 20, 2023

From Big-B Baritone to Anil Kapoor’s Jhakaas, the life of Personality rights : Since Shouvik’s 2010 post about Amitabh Bachhan’s concern over the use of his voice to sell Gutka (an addictive substance), we have come to a long way! Basheer’s two larger-than-law type posts: The Seed(y) Saga and Pest Policy. Sounds “Jhakaas!”

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43(B)log

AUGUST 11, 2022

Easiest way to make money was to make a film likely to succeed, and copying a successful foreign plot was a good way to do so. Around 2010, some studios started enforcing, e.g., Twentieth Century Fox sued over copying of plot of Phone Booth and was successful. In this case, certain gags had been copied from Knock on Wood.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Fantasy Sports [Delhi High Court] In a suit alleging copyright infringement, HULM Entertainment argued that Fantasy Sports’ “MyFab11” sports fantasy app copies the trading and stock features and GUI of its “Exchange 22” app. HULM Entertainment v. Meticulous Market Research Pvt. Acko General Insurance.

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