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Why do artists infringe copyright – the tension between artistic creativity and copyright law

IPilogue

As an avant-guard artist of his time, Warhol used the mechanical process of copying to challenge the conventional notion of art. In this sense, the act of copying is the very medium of Warhol’s art. There seems to have always been tension between artistic creativity and copyright law.

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Remixing and Remastering Music in US Copyright Law: Some Reflections after Arty v Marshmello

Kluwer Copyright Blog

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). CBS ( Case No.

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Kanye West Faces A Copyright Infringement Lawsuit: Is “Fair Use” Fair?

IPilogue

In 2019, West was also hit with a lawsuit for unauthorized use of a sound recording on his Grammy-nominated song, “Ultralight Beam.” To incorporate a sound recording into a new musical work, artists must obtain “clearance” or permission from the copyright holder.

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

LexBlog IP

6] The Supreme Court’s ruling on that petition—and a possible eventual decision on the merits—could have enormous implications for the art world and other industries impacted by copyright law. Originals” [7] : The Works at Issue. It found that all four fair use factors weighed against fair use. [12]

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

JIPL Online

ii] Existing copyright law is ineffective in its application to new forms of digital media. ” How Stagnant Copyright Law is Stifling Creativity , 27 J. Miceli, Law and Economics: Private and Public 23 (West Academic Publishing 2018). [v] 405 (2019); Terrica Carrington, Grumpy Cat or Copy Cat?

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Generative AI: admissibility and infringement in the two US class actions against Meta’s LLaMA

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Rather than being programmed in the traditional way, a large language model is “trained” by copying massive amounts of text and extracting information from it. Books3 is a dataset of books derived from a copy of the contents of the “ Bibliotik private tracker ”. Vicarious Copyright Infringement (17 U.S.C. §

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What Goldsmith Means to AI Trainers

IP Intelligence

But AI models are not interested in any work qua work, but rather they need a massive collection of as many works as possible to get at the patterns lurking within the vast combination of works. Second, the number of copies/downloads/users/seat licenses model simply does not work in the AI training context.

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