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Kluwer Copyright Blog
JUNE 16, 2021
In 2019, Artem Stoliarov, a Russian DJ whose stage name is Arty, filed a lawsuit before the US District Court for the Central District of California, alleging that Marshmello’s song ‘ Happier ’ copied the synthesizer melody from his 2014 remix of OneRepublic’s ‘I Lived’ (OneRepublic is an American pop rock band). Image by 453169 from Pixabay.
IPilogue
JUNE 14, 2022
In 2019 , Ithaca Holdings acquired Big Machine Records for an estimated $300 million, including the master recordings for one of the most popular and successful musicians in the world: Taylor Swift. At the heart of Taylor’s decision was an often overlooked but significant legal distinction in the copyright law governing the music industry.
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The IPKat
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Can a work entirely created by a machine be protected by copyright? In 2019, the Copyright Office rejected the application, holding that human authorship is necessary to support a copyright claim. First, held the Board, a machine cannot enter into any binding legal contract.
Copyright Lately
MAY 7, 2021
In 2019, Warner Bros. As Warner points out, just because a lawsuit may involve a copyrighted work, this doesn’t mean that it necessarily arises under the Copyright Act. Accounting Claims Between Copyright Co-Owners Don’t Arise Under Copyright Law.
The IPKat
DECEMBER 13, 2022
[For this Kat, it is a question of whether DJs should pay for all uses of music or whether the context should determine who pays for the DJs’ use of music] Source: Pinterest In April , the then President of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta assented to the Copyright Amendment Bill 2021 which has now become the Copyright (Amendment) Act No 14 of 2022.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
MARCH 13, 2024
The purpose of copyright, at its very basic level, finds its normative implementation in the interplay between access to protected works and the protection of the moral and material interest of creators (see Geiger, 2017 ). The purpose of copyright, its social and innovation function, is thereby seriously undermined.
The IP Law Blog
MARCH 31, 2022
The Court, however, held that Densy stated sufficient facts to establish the existence of an implied-in-fact contract between the parties. There the Court quoted Justice Traynor’s dissenting opinion in Stanley : The policy that precludes protection of an abstract idea by copyright does not prevent its protection by contract.
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