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rebinding books doesn't create derivative works but may be actionable under Lanham Act

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2023 WL 416080, No. Copyright infringement: Rebinding doesn’t create a derivative work. A derivative work must involve an original work being “recast,” “transformed,” or “adapted,” and nothing like that took place here. Steeplechase Arts & Productions, L.L.C. Wisdom Paths, Inc.,

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Authors Get Mixed Results With Initial Skirmish in OpenAI Lawsuit

The IP Law Blog

In 2023, several authors, including the comedian Sarah Silverman, filed putative class action lawsuits alleging various copyright infringement claims. The OpenAI defendants moved to dismiss all causes of action alleged by the author plaintiffs with the exception of the first cause of action for direct copyright infringement. (It

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Court Dismisses Most Claims in Authors’ Lawsuit Against OpenAI

LexBlog IP

OpenAI, Inc. , [1] a putative class action filed on behalf of a group of authors alleging that OpenAI infringed their copyrighted literary works by using them to train ChatGPT. [2] 2] OpenAI moved to dismiss all claims against it, save the claim for direct copyright infringement, and the court largely sided with OpenAI.

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Use of Warhol’s Prince Image Found Not to Be Sufficiently Transformative for Fair Use 

LexBlog IP

On May 18, 2023, the Supreme Court found that artistic changes to a pre-existing work, alone, not necessarily sufficient to make a derivative work fair use. copyright law. Applying a new lens on how to view the purpose of a derivative work under U.S. copyright law.

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Authors Get Mixed Results With Initial Skirmish in OpenAI Lawsuit

LexBlog IP

In 2023, several authors, including the comedian Sarah Silverman, filed putative class action lawsuits alleging various copyright infringement claims. The OpenAI defendants moved to dismiss all causes of action alleged by the author plaintiffs with the exception of the first cause of action for direct copyright infringement. (It

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The 5 Worst Copyright Lawsuits of 2023

Copyright Lately

Thousands will compete, many are objectively baseless, but only five can be crowned the worst of the worst copyright lawsuits of 2023. We’re nearing the end of December, which means it’s time for Copyright Lately ’s annual worst-of list. When Netflix refused to pay up, Cramer sued for copyright infringement.

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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The plaintiffs’ factual allegations in Kadrey v Meta and Chabon v Meta The first class action, Kadrey v Meta ( here ), was filed on 7 July 2023, in U.S. The second class action, Chabon v Meta, was filed on 12 September 2023 before the same court ( here ). Vicarious Copyright Infringement (17 U.S.C. §