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Prince, Prince, Prints: Will the Supreme Court Revisit Fair Use?

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9] In reaching that determination, the court relied chiefly on the Second Circuit’s 2013 decision in Cariou v. Prince [10] (no relation), in which the Second Circuit rejected the premise that a secondary work must comment on the original to be sufficiently “transformative” to qualify as fair use. 5 (quoting Google , 141 S.

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Evolution of Tests of Creativity in Copyrights

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The word “originality” is frequently used in conjunction with the creativity of writers, thinkers, and artists. The Copyright , Designs and Patents Act of 1988 in the United Kingdom specifies in Section (1)(1)(a) that copyright exists in “original literary, dramatic, musical, or artistic works.”