Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 14, 2023

In a policy paper , copyright and art-law experts led by the author clarified the general copyright law principles applicable to stakeholders dealing with digital cultural heritage worldwide and formulated recommendations, addressed to policy-makers, to facilitate their digital activities. Proposal 3. Proposal 5. Proposal 6.

Database Right 52

Database Right Licensing Public Domain Artwork 52

43(B)log

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Williams wasn’t entitled to a rebuttable presumption that he was the copyright owner because he only submitted a copy of his Public Catalog search results, not his certificate of registration. Williams’s argument that 6th Avenue Corridor was merely granted a “limited, non-exclusive license” to publicly display the mural is unconvincing.

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Art Law Journal

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Nobody can copy, distribute, or display the work without the author’s permission. Steve Schlackman. As a general rule, when an artistic or literary work is created, the author is the one that holds the copyright. When a painting is sold, the buyer owns the painting itself, but does not have the right to use that image for […].

Copying 53

Copying Copyright Licensing Intellectual Property 53

Art Law Journal

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Nobody can copy, distribute, or display the work without the author’s permission. As a general rule, when an artistic or literary work is created, the author is the one that holds the copyright. When a painting is sold, the buyer owns the painting itself, but does not have the right to use that image for […].

Journalism 52

Journalism Copying Art Business 52

Art Law Journal

JUNE 16, 2022

The copyright holder (usually the creator but could also be a company or other entity) has the exclusive right to make copies, publicly display, distribute, and create derivatives of the artwork. More importantly, copyright is a no-fault law so it doesn’t matter why or how the violation occurred.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

A few years later, in 1984, Goldsmith’s agency, which had retained the rights to those images, licensed one of them to Vanity Fair for use in an article called “Purple Fame.” In 1981, Goldsmith, who was then a portrait photographer for Newsweek , took a series of photographs of the then-up-and-coming musician Prince. He did just that.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 27, 2023

3] Goldsmith received a small licensing fee for this use and was co-credited with Warhol in the magazine. The case turned on the issue of licensing, and focused on the purpose of the use being something commercial. Between 1984 and his death in 1987, Warhol created a total of 16 variations in his Prince series. [4]

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