Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

In 2020, photographer Carlos Vila took a picture of Russian model Irina Shayk wearing Deadly Doll sweats that incorporated its “Pin-Up Girl” artwork on the right pant leg. His main argument was that the photo couldn’t be considered an infringing derivative work simply because it captured Deadly Doll’s design.

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The IPKat

JULY 2, 2021

Consider the February 2020 roll-out of the movie “ Emma. Even if so, for the “All-In” group, the movie, as a derivative work, remains tethered to the literary work. For her, the movie is not quite viewed as a conscious derivative work, but neither is it totally detached from its literary provenance.

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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.

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JIPL Online

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

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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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 6, 2023

A 2020 class action lawsuit filed by musician Maria Schneider accused YouTube of mass copyright infringement, failing to suspend ‘repeat infringers, and restricting access to anti-piracy tools, among other allegations. In this respect, YouTube says it is entitled to summary judgment on 114 of Schneider’s 381 infringment claims.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

The problem is not human, but the work In fact, the whole issue is not about a person, but about a work. Just as when two painters, setting up their easels in the same place and painting the same landscape, create two independent works (p. 17) However, even the drafters of the Convention were not able to fully reflect this.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In his Opinion, however, Advocate General (AG) Cruz Villalón indicated that the notions of parody, caricature and pastiche ‘have the same effect of derogating from the copyright of the author of the original work which, in one way or another, is present in the – so to speak – derived work.’

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 28, 2021

In fact, at the very start of lockdown in March and April 2020, Archive of Our Own (AO3), a very popular fanfiction site, found that their weekly site visits had gone up 60% from the same time the previous year. This is not to say that fanfiction is a new phenomenon, however.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 27, 2022

Shosh and Yuval assert further that in January of 2018, they notified Paramount of their election to terminate those rights as of January of 2020. In other words, the termination period began May 18, 2018 and ends May 18, 2023 requiring a notice of termination effective January 2020 to be served in January 2018.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 27, 2022

Shosh and Yuval assert further that in January of 2018, they notified Paramount of their election to terminate those rights as of January of 2020. In other words, the termination period began May 18, 2018 and ends May 18, 2023 requiring a notice of termination effective January 2020 to be served in January 2018.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 22, 2022

An overview of how the 13 teams of the 2020 AI Song Contest considered human and AI roles in different music building blocks ( source ). Based on an analysis of international and EU law, including the case law of the CJEU, it is possible to identify a four-step test for the assessment of copyright protection of subject matter as a “work”.

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Intellectual Property Office Blog

JULY 29, 2021

million viewers back in 2020. The specific wording states 'non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide license to host, use, distribute, modify, run, copy, publicly perform or display, translate, and create derivative works of your content'.

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Copyright Lately

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Back in October 2020, I wrote about a copyright infringement case filed by Jeffrey Scott against the Walt Disney Company. As for the co-ownership claims (which weren’t alleged in Scott’s original lawsuit), they’re premised on the theory that Scott had the “exclusive right” to produce derivative works of his bible and scripts.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

scene in the past, things seemed to come to a head in November 2020 when Nintendo sent a cease-and-desist letter to the Tournament Organizers (TOs) of the Big House, an upcoming streamed Melee tournament, and subsequently forced them to cancel the event. It is an open legal question whether this would constitute an infringing derivative work.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Given this, when the Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library based in the US changed its digital lending policy in 2020, trouble ensued. Other than a brief period in 2020, the Archive maintained a one-to-one ratio of books owned by it in physical copies and made available digitally for users through its free digital library.

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IP Tech Blog

JANUARY 4, 2023

Given that NFTs are the result of digital work that is transported in images, videos, photography and other forms of digital media, copyright seems to be the closest IP right to protect both the source code of the digital work, as well as its derivative works. Is this the same in the US and China? The United States.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Interestingly, the artwork also led to controversy in India when it was granted registration in November 2020. Ankit Sahni, an artist and lawyer, commissioned an AI-based tool that generates artistic works, by the name RAGHAV (‘Robust Artificially Intelligent Graphics and Art Visualizer’) in 2020.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Ameya Vinod Khopkar Entertainment (2020) over “De Dhakka”. T-Series denied any intention to produce a sequel or derivative work related to the “Aashiqui” films and argued that their new project will be entirely distinct, with no sequential linkage or potential for confusion. Does the Plaintiff Have a Trademark?

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JIPL Online

APRIL 9, 2021

277 (2020). [iv] Keller, Recognizing the Derivative Works Right as a Moral Right: A Case Comparison and Proposal , 63 Case W. 25, 2020), [link] ; [xxi] Adam Hayes, Cost-Benefit Analysis , Investopedia [link] (last visited Mar. ” How Stagnant Copyright Law is Stifling Creativity , 27 J. iv] Maxwell L. vii] Deidrè A.

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 24, 2023

The first was to ink an image of Tiger King star Joe Exotic (along with a can of Lysol and a “Quarantine 2020” toilet paper banner) onto her husband’s thigh as part of a gift certificate promotion for the business. With her tattoo parlor shuttered by the COVID-19 pandemic, Molly Cramer had two brilliant money-making ideas.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

From the output side, the relevant issues are whether the output is copyright-protected, and whether it infringes the copyright of ‘works “ingested” during the training stage of the AI system’ ( see Quintais, here ; see also here and here ). To facilitate the process of TDM, data is the key.

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The IPKat

MARCH 22, 2024

In 2020 the first recording, “Fearless”, became eligible for re-recording. After all, making and using new recordings similar or even nearly identical to existing ones, are not infringing any US copyrights, as per art. After its expiration she was free to produce new recordings from her music and distribute them as she wished.

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BYU Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Internet Archive's Fair Use Defense Falls Short Fair Use,Literary Works,Infringement Found October 07, 11:03 AM October 07, 11:03 AM On May 15, 2024, we published a post about an important legal dispute between the Internet Archive (IA) and the publisher Hachette, along with other major publishers (the Publishers").

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 16, 2023

Accordingly, this case is a useful example of how a court will: (1) assess the derivation requirement (of actual copying) of UK copyright; and, (2) as part of that, consider similarity between musical works for the purpose of copyright infringement.” by Pamela Samuelson “In March 2022 the U.S.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 3, 2022

In 2020, Southern District of Illinois judge Staci Yandle issued a key ruling when she denied defendants’ motion for summary judgment and granted Alexander’s motion for partial summary judgment. But first, here’s a quick recap of the trial verdict: How We Got Here.

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43(B)log

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

A PR rep sent an email to Gannett stating, “I would like to submit Microsoft’s 2020 Super Bowl ad, ‘Be The One,’ featuring Katie Sowers to the USA Today Ad Meter.”

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 4, 2023

Given that NFTs are the result of digital work that is transported in images, videos, photography and other forms of digital media, copyright seems to be the closest IP right to protect both the source code of the digital work, as well as its derivative works. Is this the same in the US and China? The United States.

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IIPRD

APRIL 8, 2024

Stability AI, three artists filed a claim on the basis that their work was used by the AI to train the algorithm and use them in a transformative manner to create new work. [5] Creator’s will need to keep an eye out to monitor such generators in case work derived from theirs appears. 152 (2020). 152 (2020). [9]

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 7, 2022

“Unicolors’s business model is to create artwork, copyright it, print the artwork on fabric, and market the designed fabrics to garment manufacturers.” 3d 1194 , 1196 (9th Cir. Inaccurate information in a registration is therefore equally (or more) likely to arise from a mistake of law as a mistake of fact.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 21, 2021

75, 79 (2020). Aseri (2020) at 80]. ” Aseri (2020) at 70. ’” Dee (2020) at 119-120. To avoid these issues, religious groups can implement copyright law to prevent all impermissible copying and distribution of the religious works and any derivative works, and therefore maintaining their doctrinal purity.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Hived off of fair use and became its own defense in early 20 th century, then became swallowed by substantial similarity, which is a huge problem b/c it was about market substitution and it means the derivative work rights ballooned. In re Jackson (2d Cir 2020): what values does state law, as applied to the case, protect?

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 23, 2023

2020), each step in the process forces a court into a role not unlike the art critic. For a court, that process means “’dissect[ing] the allegedly copied [work’s] structure and isolate each level of abstraction contained within it.’” Newman, 959 F. 3d 1288, 1303 (11th Cir. ’” Id.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

In 2020, BuzzFeed “embedded” one of Hunley’s Instagram posts, featuring one of her photos of a Black Lives Matter protest, in its entirety (again, preserving her username, caption, and hashtags). Legal Background: The Public Display Right Generally speaking, the U.S.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

The German Legislative Draft Documents also suggest that every form of derivative artistic creation, like remixes or mashups, shall fall within the scope of Section 51a UrhG (GERMAN BUNDESTAG Printed Paper 19/27426, p.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 20, 2024

Finally, in 2020, the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) ruled that Pelham’s use of the Metall auf Metall sample was lawful up until the adoption of the InfoSoc Directive but was rendered unlawful after the pre-emptive effect of art. 5 InfoSoc Directive (for an exhaustive overview of the CJEU’s Pelham I decision, see here and here ).

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

MARCH 14, 2022

Bridgerton is the Netflix television sensation that enraptured the United States in late 2020. A derivative work itself, Netflix’s Bridgerton is based on the book series by Julia Quinn , a Regency-era series set between 1813 and 1827.

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Velocity of Content

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

It is clear that AI is built on a foundation of immense works of authorship, many of which are protected by copyright. 7 When copyrighted works are used, AI systems typically make copies of the works to train and power AI outputs. Other nations tend to use the Berne Convention language and refer to adaptation and translation.

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