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Court Rules Lego Creation Based on Religious Texts is Eligible for Copyright Protection

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21, 2023) (Hector Gonzalez), the District Court for the Eastern District of New York granted the plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment regarding the validity of its copyright. Defendants argued that because information concerning the Second Holy Temple is in the public domain, Plaintiff’s copyrighted works are not original.

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Court Rules Lego Creation Based on Religious Texts is Eligible for Copyright Protection

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21, 2023) (Hector Gonzalez), the District Court for the Eastern District of New York granted the plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment regarding the validity of its copyright. Defendants argued that because information concerning the Second Holy Temple is in the public domain, Plaintiff’s copyrighted works are not original.

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U.S. Supreme Court Vindicates Photographer But Destabilizes Fair Use — Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith (Guest Blog Post)

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21-869 (May 18, 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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Evolution of Tests of Creativity in Copyrights

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Originality is the quality that distinguishes produced or invented works from copies, clones, forgeries, or derivative works by being new or novel. Here, merely automated and mechanical work that lacks originality is also protected by the said copyright doctrine. A publishing company called Feist Publications Inc.

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HULM Entertainment v.  Fantasy Sports: Reanalysing Originality, Idea-Expression Dichotomy and Copyrightability of GUIs

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She is keenly interested in Intellectual Property Law, Technology Law, and Corporate Law ]. years after the initial injunction, the SB proceeded to vacate this interim injunction on October 17 2023 , and also undertook a detailed discussion on the question of copyrightability of GUIs. Tejaswini is a 3rd-year B.A.

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Maybe Duct Tape Can’t Fix Everything: Slippery Standards As Copyright Goes Bananas

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.” From ongoing debates about the human element (or requirement) of authorship to debates over what constitutes a transformative work to the gauntlet laid down in footnote 2 of Justice Kagan’s dissent in the Supreme Court’s May 18, 2023 decision in Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, Inc., Morford , at 11.

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The Good Get: Interviews, The Predicates Of Copyright Ownership, & Divorcing Subjects From Owning Copyright Content

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But, in this space, headlines are usually a source of inspiration (so we can write about intellectual property issues that may interest more than just IP attorneys), and titles a bit of fun (so we can draw in those looking for a bit of lightness amid more serious legal analysis). is] that works produced for the U.S. ” H.R.