Plagiarism Today
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
First off today, Kevin Shalvey at Business Insider reports that “Sports Illustrated” swimsuit model Genevieve Morton has filed a lawsuit against Twitter alleging that the site was slow to remove infringing material and that an AI photo editing tool created unlawful derivative works.
The IPKat
JULY 27, 2021
The US Copyright Office concluded that the logo was a derivative work of the Oscar statuette and did not possess the requisite authorship to sustain a (self-standing) claim to copyright. It was also found that that as a whole, the elements making up the work were “more mechanical and inevitable than creative and original”.
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JIPL Online
MARCH 15, 2021
7] Before the court could decide if the subtitled version, a type of derivative work, could still be protected even if the underlying film on its own was available to be used by all, both parties settled. [8]. 31, 2019), [link]. [12] 9] Both parties reached an amicable settlement. [10] 11] The case has also been settled. [12]
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
JUNE 20, 2023
Legal Background: Copyright and Derivative Works Copyright law protects original works of authorship, including “pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works,” 17 U.S.C. For obvious reasons, the copyright in a photograph does not include the right to publicly perform the copyrighted work.
Copyright Lately
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
The public domain status of all of these works was further delayed by 1998’s Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA) , which extended the term of copyright protection for subsisting copyrighted works by 20 years. Works copyrighted prior to 1978 had their terms extended from 75 years to 95 years from the date of publication.
IPilogue
MAY 26, 2022
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.
LexBlog IP
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
13] Instead, the Second Circuit held that the differences between the works are more akin to the differences between a novel and an adaptation of that novel—“a paradigmatic example” of a derivative work that would require a license. [14]. 2019.) Originals [Album]. 2019 NPG Records, Inc. Goldsmith , 11 F.4th
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