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Authors Get Mixed Results With Initial Skirmish in OpenAI Lawsuit

The IP Law Blog

The Court noted that the Copyright Act “grants the copyright holder exclusive rights to (1) `reproduce the copyrighted work and copies;’ (2) `prepare derivative works;’ and (3) `distribute copies of the copyrighted work to the public’.” East Coast Foods, Inc.,

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Limited Licensing: An introductory overview

IP and Legal Filings

It includes reproduction, the preparation of derivative works, distributing copies by sale or rental, and public performance or display. In 2012, Netflix obtained an exclusive multi-year deal to stream live-action TV series based on Marvel superheroes like Daredevil, Luke Cage, and Jessica Jones.

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First duel between NFTs and copyright before the Spanish courts: NFTs 1 – Authors 0

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Technically, from a copyright perspective, the NFTs were derivative works of the Paintings (underlying works), since the former included major copyrightable elements of the (previously created) latter.

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Authors Get Mixed Results With Initial Skirmish in OpenAI Lawsuit

LexBlog IP

” To allege a valid copyright infringement claim, a plaintiff must show that: (1) that he or she owns a valid copyright; and (2) that the defendant “copied aspects of his [or her] work.” The Court began by noting that “while it may be unlawful to recreate another’s work (e.g., East Coast Foods, Inc.,

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Bungie Expert: Destiny 2 Cheats Logged “Active Military” Patient Data

TorrentFreak

and owner Robert James Duthie Nelson, admitted that their tool breached copyright by injecting new code into Bungie’s, thereby creating an unlicensed derivative work. “When I first joined the Wallhax partnership in 2012, I was the primary software developer for the business,” Schaufuss writes.

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The Interplay of Personality Rights and Freedom of Expression- the Jackie Shroff’s Case’

IP and Legal Filings

The legal system has been called out on for the precedents to be in dockets, as the legal scrutiny is sought to clarify the bounds of what is a “derivative work” under intellectual property laws. Ramkumar Jewellers, 2012 (50) PTC 486 (Del). [9] 2012 SCC OnLine Mad 3462. [10] Varsha Productions, 2015 SCC OnLine Mad 158. [7]

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YouTube Wins Partial Summary Judgment in Maria Schneider Copyright Lawsuit

TorrentFreak

The YouTube TOS grants YouTube “a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform” any content uploaded by users.

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