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AN ARGUMENT FOR EMBRACING THE LEGALITY OF CROWDFUNDED GAME MODS

JIPL Online

Mods are beneficial for the video game industry, [3] but mods can threaten a company’s copyright exclusivity because of their status as derivative works. [4] Section 106 of the Copyright Act grants copyright holders an exclusive right to make or license derivative works based upon a previously copyrighted work. [11]

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Ninth Circuit Reaffirms the “Server Test” for Direct Infringement of the Public Display Right — Hunley v. Instagram, LLC (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

How are photographers supposed to get the attention of those publishers without displaying samples of their work? In other words, the gist of the case is whether the photographers surrender their right to exclude others by voluntarily posting their own photos to social media. Jackson , 2017 WL 5629514, *11 (N.D.

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Taking the Mona Lisa Effect from Illusion to Reality: Enhancing the Museum Experience with Augmented and Virtual Reality

JIPEL Copyright Blog

From July 2017 to April 2018, the Art Gallery of Ontario (the “AGO”) staged an exhibition titled “ ReBlink ,” which urged visitors to “[t]ake a second look… with a modern lens:”. addition of written or pictorial elements) of a work not in the public domain and/or where the creator is still alive.

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

JIPL Online

Basically, corporations must employ someone willing to scour the internet and report such infringing content by either filing Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notices, reporting such individual posts via the methods provided by social media platforms, or both. Stearns, Todd J. Zywicki & Thomas J. vii] Deidrè A.

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With Warhol, It’s Time to Transform Transformative Use

Copyright Lately

Clark Asay and his team analyzed fair use opinions between 1991 (the year after Judge Leval first coined the term “transformative use”) and 2017. Does the word “transformed” when used to describe a derivative work mean the same thing as the word “transformative” when used in the fair use inquiry? Thanks for reading!

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Fair Use: Graham v. Prince and Warhol v. Goldsmith

LexBlog IP

8] Second, as to the works’ purpose, the court found that it was unclear whether Prince intended to create a parody of the original photographs, a satire of society’s use of social media, or neither, pointing out Prince’s own contradictory testimony on the question. [9] Many derivative works.

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13 Spooky Copyright Cases, Just in Time for Halloween

Copyright Lately

2017), raised an interesting example of “copyright estoppel” or, as the Ninth Circuit called it in the “Jersey Boys” lawsuit I recently discussed, the “Asserted Truths Doctrine.” By representing that a work is factual in nature, an author is prevented from later claiming that the work is fictional (and therefore protected by copyright).

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