BYU Copyright Blog

MAY 24, 2022

On May 18, 2022, Dr. Elliot McGucken ("McGucken") filed an Amended Complaint against Pepperdine University and associated parties ("Pepperdine"), asserting that Pepperdine infringed McGucken's copyright in a photograph (the "Photo") he had taken.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 5, 2022

When standard approaches failed, a business professor recently turned to copyright law, hoping for a solution. ” Despite those instructions, around January 2022, he learned that portions of the two exams had been posted on the Course Hero website, along with requests for help with the questions.

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 2, 2022

The duo’s passion project was nominated for a 2022 Grammy Award in the Best Musical Theater Album category. performances of “The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical”) or other derivative works that might compete with Netflix’s own planned live events,” including the multi-city “ Bridgerton Experience.”

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 23, 2023

The copyrights Act includes computer programmes and electronic communication, however this has been viewed as a grey area. Following the 2012 revision to the copyrights Act, it was made clear that Internet activities were also covered by the copyright law. x] Person & Kelley S.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 6, 2022

Just don’t forget about real world copyright law. ? Statement of TMNTNFT’s IP lawyer, March 31, 2022. Want to Create New Derivative Works? This seems to be the distinction that attorney Marc-Olivier Deblanc was trying to draw in his March 31, 2022 statement.).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 9, 2023

TLDR Generative AI is one of the hot topics in copyright law today. In the EU, a crucial legal issue is whether using in-copyright works to train generative AI models is copyright infringement or falls under existing text and data mining (TDM) exceptions in the Copyright in Digital Single Market (CDSM) Directive.

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IPilogue

MAY 26, 2022

Raenelle Manning is an IPilogue Writer and a 2L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. On May 3, 2022, Bishop David P. Moten, a Texas pastor, filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against rapper Kanye West for incorporating a sample recording of his religious sermon into one of his songs.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 7, 2023

Goldsmith et al sheds light on different perspectives of copyright law in common law and civil law countries. This brief post dives into this duality, as exampled by American and Brazilian law. Firstly, both Brazilian and American legislation stipulate that the creator of a work holds copyright over it.

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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Top 3 Kluwer Copyright Blog posts. 1) The Rise of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) and the Role of Copyright Law – Part II by Peter Mezei , João Pedro Quintais , Alexandra Giannopoulou and Balázs Bodó. In this Part II we discuss copyright law aspects of NFTs, with a focus on the EU copyright acquis.”

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

ROMs which are possessed or distributed without the copyright holders’ permission likely violate copyright law in various ways. It is an open legal question whether this would constitute an infringing derivative work. tournament circuit beginning in 2022.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 31, 2023

Astley is claiming that Gravy violated his right of publicity by using a singer (defendant Nick Seeley, pka Popnick ) to imitate Astley’s “signature voice” from “Never Gonna Give You Up” on Gravy’s 2022 hit “ Betty (Get Money).” The Copyright Office is referring to 17 U.S.C. § But Astley isn’t suing for copyright infringement.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 18, 2023

In this post, the most interesting parts of Ryder Ripps’ answer, defence and counterclaim , filed on December 27, 2022 will be analyzed. The claim is for trade mark infringement, unfair competition, false advertising, cybersquatting, and other cause of actions before the Central District of California.

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IP Tech Blog

MARCH 18, 2022

Most NFTs are protected under US Copyright Law as creative works and/or may be derivative works based on pre-existing copyright-protected works. The Amended Complaint, filed on March 2, 2022, provides additional background and context for Hermès’ claims. And in February 2022, Nike, Inc.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

On Wednesday, October 12th, 2022, the judges of the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments from both sides, and considered whether Warhol’s infamous 16 Prince silkscreens , which he had based on a 1981 photograph of Prince by photographer Lynn Goldsmith, may be considered a use that is “fair”. .

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The fundamental problem with the court’s ruling and the resulting jury verdict is that it puts copyright law in a very uneasy tension with two other constitutional rights, the right to bodily autonomy and the First Amendment. — Aaron Perzanowski (@APerzanowski) October 1, 2022. Frye (@brianlfrye) October 1, 2022.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 18, 2022

Most NFTs are protected under US Copyright Law as creative works and/or may be derivative works based on pre-existing copyright-protected works. The Amended Complaint, filed on March 2, 2022, provides additional background and context for Hermès’ claims.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 16, 2023

Top 3 Kluwer Copyright Blog posts 1) Generative AI, Copyright and the AI Act by João Pedro Quintais “ Generative AI is one of the hot topics in copyright law today. ” 3) How to Distinguish Transformative Fair Uses From Infringing Derivative Works? by Pamela Samuelson “In March 2022 the U.S.

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SpicyIP

MAY 23, 2024

He, rightfully, opined that ‘ twin lights can co-exist” for “ composer alone has copyright on a musical work.” Cut to almost 4 decades later, in 2012, the copyright laws in India were amended. The Bombay High Court, in 2022 finally acknowledged the legislative changes brought by 2012 Amendment in IPRS v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

Copyright Act grants authors five exclusive rights: “to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords”, “to prepare derivative works based on the copyrighted work,” “to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public,” “to perform the copy­righted work publicly,” and “to display the copyrighted work publicly.”

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

Part I of this post discussed the changes to copyright contract law and the new text and data mining exemption provisions that formed part of the 2021 copyright law reform. Part 2 explores further exemptions for users of works, new aspects of the right of communication to the public and the press publishers’ right.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Hulm asserted ownership of copyright on the app on the basis of a copyright registration of a literary concept note detailing the working of its app, arguing that the app is an adaptation of the literary concept note.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Other contributions have focussed on creators within these industries, and look to the interplay between law and practice, examining whether specific provisions in copyright are successful in their application. More from our authors: Law of Raw Data. Directions for future research are only likely to grow.

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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?

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

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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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?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

Described as “an intellectual property pioneer and modern legal historian” , his untimely death in January 2022 was a blow for the academic community. Ginsburg returned to the challenge that Bill Cornish posed – how do we achieve “real benefits from copyright laws for the authors in whose name the copyrights are granted”?

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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. ↩︎ 17 U.S.C § 106(1); Restatement of Copyright § 56 (Am. Tentative Draft No.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 10, 2024

’” See also NPR Author Interviews, Bob Woodward’s new audiobook features hours of his interviews with ex-President Trump, October 24, 2022. ” Thus, there are some copyright arguments or policies in play beyond those most immediately considered in the motion papers.

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 6, 2023

The case involves an interesting interplay between copyright law, entertainment contracts and the First Amendment. The New York Lawsuit The first volley in the parties’ legal battle came in May 2022, when Coakley filed a pro se lawsuit in New York state court against the Bergers and Virtuoso.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

More than eight hours of excerpts from those recorded interviews were published by Simon & Schuster in October 2022 as an audiobook under the title The Trump Tapes: Bob Woodward’s Twenty Interviews with President Donald Trump. (The

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