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Digital Death Penalty? Legal Battle over Piracy Disconnections Heats Up in Appeals Court

TorrentFreak

On top of that, it notes that the $223 million damages for derivative works should not have been granted. In 2013 and 2014, Cox terminated over 600,000 residential and 20,000 business customers for nonpayment — over 800 terminations a day. Music Companies See a Profit Motive. The music companies see things quite differently.

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Copyright Liability for LLM Outputs

Velocity of Content

If so, infringement may occur unless an exception applies or the LLM did not have access to the original work. 1 Another key right is the creation of derivative works, which includes adaptations or translations. 7 This does not, however, fully answer hard questions about the right to prepare derivative works under US law.

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

LexBlog IP

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.

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Prof. Avichal Bhatnagar v. The CEO, Pralek Prakashan Pvt. Ltd : Taking a Look at The Conundrum Surrounding Copyright Protection vis-a-vis Accessibility for PwDs

SpicyIP

On a broad reading, there seems to be an obvious conflict of two areas of law, where the RPwD Act mandates fundamental access to all content but the Copyright Act grants the author the right to control how their works are copied.

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13 Spooky Copyright Cases, Just in Time for Halloween

Copyright Lately

In fact, he was so big that when the producers of “Ghostbusters” approached him about writing the theme for their upcoming film, Lewis had to decline because of previous commitments, including his work on the “Back to the Future” soundtrack. “The Conjuring” (2013). “Nosferatu” (1922).

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Let’s Go Hazy: Making Sense of Fair Use After Warhol

Copyright Lately

For the majority, what was important was that “[b]oth Goldsmith and AWF sold images of Prince (AWF’s copying Goldsmith’s) to magazines to illustrate stories about the celebrity, which is the typical use made of Goldsmith’s photographs.” “[T]he first fair use factor. “[T]he first fair use factor.

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IT’S THE COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT FOR ME: WHY CLAIMS AGAINST MEME CONTENT SHOULD NOT MATTER

JIPL Online

29, 2013), [link]. [ii] Keller, Recognizing the Derivative Works Right as a Moral Right: A Case Comparison and Proposal , 63 Case W. 405 (2019); Terrica Carrington, Grumpy Cat or Copy Cat? 1, 2013), [link]. i] Kelsey Skager, What are Memes & Can You Use Them in Marketing? vii] Deidrè A. 511, 523 (2012).