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Why Netflix’s “Bridgerton” Lawsuit is Good for Fan Fiction

Copyright Lately

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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WIPIP Concurrent Session #3: Copyright Doctrine

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In 1963, Disney expressed skepticism about monopoly aspects of extended term and “expressed doubt that Congress would approve a longer ownership period.” Works almost like a fair use defense. Where is de minimis used elsewhere? Rosen, Fog and Fiction and Copyright Term Extension aka Who Framed Mickey Mouse?

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The clash of artistic rights: Warhol, Goldsmith, and the boundaries of copyright in Brazil and in the U.S.

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Thus, guided by the principle of equality, copyright operates as a spectrum of creativity, where the level of protection granted to a work corresponds to its level of originality. [2] 2] At one end of the spectrum, we find plagiarism: a completely derivative work that fails to contribute any creative elements to the original piece.

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Generative AI, Copyright and the AI Act

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The biggest copyright law question in the EU and US is probably whether using in-copyright works to train generative AI models is copyright infringement or falls under the transient and temporary copying and TDM exceptions (in the EU) or fair use (in the US). In the aftermath of cases like Authors Guild v.

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NFT Update:  5 Recent Lawsuits Show a Glimpse into Future Legal Battles Involving NFTs 

LexBlog IP

2] Dash originally planned to use SuperFarm, an NFT website, to mint and sell the NFT of the album. [3] Tarantino [14] also involves a dispute over copyright ownership, along with claims for trademark infringement and breach of contract. The parties submitted a joint discovery plan on February 10, 2022. Miramax LLC v.

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Copyright, Free Speech Clash in Dispute Over Cameron Boyce’s Final Film

Copyright Lately

The company also asserts copyright ownership in two “director’s statements” written by Coakley about the alleged on-set bullying, as well as in Coakley’s planned derivative project about the making of Runt. The Sixth Circuit ruled in Balsley’s favor, rejecting Hustler ‘s fair use defense.

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A Preliminary Analysis of Trump’s Copyright Lawsuit Over Interview Recordings (Trump v. Simon & Schuster) (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

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 Third, is Trump’s claim of ownership barred by 17 U.S.C. This strikes me as the wrong result.

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