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AI Training, Fair Use, and the Burdens of Being First

Copyright Lately

Ross Intelligence will get plenty of second looks from courts deciding fair use in generative AI copyright cases. Those were some of the phrases legal commentators used to describe Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts v. Goldsmith in the days following the Supreme Courts 2023 landmark fair use decision.

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

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Supreme Court affirmed the Second Circuit’s ruling that the reproduction of Andy Warhol’s Orange Prince on the cover of a magazine tribute was not a fair use of Lynn Goldsmith’s photo of the singer-songwriter Prince, on which the Warhol portrait was based. 21-869 (May 18, 2023). Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

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Copyright’s Big Win in the First Decided US Artificial Intelligence Case

Velocity of Content

This article originally appeared in the Scholarly Kitchen Back in March of 2023, when there were only a handful of cases alleging copyright infringement for training purposes by AI companies, I predicted that we would soon have some guidance from the court in Thomson Reuters Enterprise Center GMBH and West Publishing Corp. The answer is no.

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Deepfakes and Personality Rights: The Need for codifying Personality Rights.

IP and Legal Filings

This brings us to the discussion of their personality rights, which confer upon an individual the exclusive right to govern how their persona is depicted in the public domain, particularly for commercial purposes. 2] Rajat Sharma v M/s Independent News Service Pvt Ltd, Delhi High Court, [2024][link] 16 January 2025. [3]

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Controlled Digital Lending: A Copyright Analysis

IP and Legal Filings

This rule covers lending digital copies of copyrighted works, while works in the public domain can be freely digitized. The concept of CDL revolves around the idea of two major doctrines under Copyright law i.e. Doctrine of fair use and doctrine of exhaustion. 1156 (2023). [2] Internet Archive, 542 F.Supp.

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Copyright Laws and Fair Dealing: Analysing the Ongoing Dispute Between Dhanush And Nayanthara

IP and Legal Filings

Rahul Dhawan, her lawyer, argued that the disputed clip was part of Nayanthara’s ‘Personal Liberty’ as it was shot on her device and was already circulating in the public domain. In 2023, Vignesh’s manager had requested the title name, which Kumaran had declined.

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If You Ask Your Friend to Take Your Photo Using Your Camera, Who Owns the Copyright?–Shah v. NYP

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Here’s an example of a subject photo from his complaint (which, based on this ruling, I’m now confident he can’t sue me for; plus fair use), with some pretty obvious photography flaws: His copyright claims raise a simple but troubling question: who owns the photos taken with his camera? 2023 WL 266511 (N.D.

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