LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

1] That decision shook the art world, as it seems to dramatically narrow the scope of the fair use doctrine, and raises doubts about the lawfulness of many existing works. [2] Originals” [7] : The Works at Issue. It found that all four fair use factors weighed against fair use. [12]

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Copyright Lately

MAY 22, 2023

Five things to know about the Supreme Court’s new purpose-driven fair use opinion in Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith (“ Warhol “) is that relatively rare fair use case in which both the original and follow-on works were more or less directly competing in the same market.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

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. Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. Goldsmith , No.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 4, 2024

If so, infringement may occur unless an exception applies or the LLM did not have access to the original work. 1 Another key right is the creation of derivative works, which includes adaptations or translations. 7 This does not, however, fully answer hard questions about the right to prepare derivative works under US law.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

On September 23, the art site PokerPaint announced on their Twitter (Tweet now deleted) that they were releasing a series of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) on OpenSea. ” The case raises questions of fair use and whether the new paintings were transformative enough to be non-infringing or if they were simply derivative works.

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Trademark and Copyright Law Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Frequently, the Academy favors somewhat obscure, esoteric films—so it might be surprising to learn how many nominees are, in fact, adaptations of existing art. One aspect of copyright law that makes adaptations attractive is derivative works. A derivative work is a work based on one or more existing copyrighted works.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 22, 2023

The Supreme Court ruled on May 18 that Andy Warhol’s “Orange Prince” work of pop art was not a fair use when licensed to Condé Nast in 2016. Apparently, Warhol had created an entire series of 15 other works of pop art using Goldsmith’s initial photograph. § 107 ).

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IP Tech Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

The Supreme Court recently upheld an appellate court’s ruling that Andy Warhol’s use of a photograph of Prince as a reference for a collection of screen prints is not fair use – to the extent his foundation decided to license them at least. Goldsmith et al, Case No. Goldsmith et al, Case No. Unbeknownst to Ms.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

A Few Words for a Lost Friend: Tribute to Dmitry Karshtedt (Bob Brauneis, Mark Lemley, Jake Sherkow) Closing Plenary Session: Fair use Robert Brauneis, Copyright Transactions in the Shadow of Fair Use Suppose a work does not infringe another work because and only because it’s been ruled a fair use.

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IPilogue

JULY 18, 2022

Copyright Act —whether Warhol’s print is transformative of the original photograph so that it qualifies as fair use. As an avant-guard artist of his time, Warhol used the mechanical process of copying to challenge the conventional notion of art. In this sense, the act of copying is the very medium of Warhol’s art.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 23, 2023

A group of artists has filed a first-of-its-kind copyright infringement lawsuit against the developers of popular AI art tools, but did they paint themselves into a corner? As I noted in my prior article on AI art , AI tools aren’t copying images so much to access their creative expression as to identify patterns in the images and captions.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 29, 2023

Fair Use The authors’ copyright infringement claims are grounded in copyright law. OpenAI doesn’t dispute that copyright plays a role but notes that the complaints take a hard line, glossing over exemptions such as fair use. Derivative? ” OpenAI notes that when the U.S. .

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The United States Court of Appeal for the Second Circuit ruled that the use of Lynn Goldsmith’s 1981 photograph was not fair use by Andy Warhol’s image of a musical artist. The present case deals in the creation of the work which has a prior material, whereby the dispute is between a creator’s creativity and creator’s control.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Summary of argument: The constitutional goal of copyright protection is to “promote the progress of science and useful arts,” Art. But fair use protects precisely this kind of analysis. Separately, Apple’s free dissemination of iOS strongly favors fair use here. Corellium security research dispute.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

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. At issue before the Supreme Court in Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc. copyright law. copyright law. Copyright law in the U.S.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Deadly Doll’s theory was that by taking a photo of Shayk wearing clothes that included its artwork, Vila had created an unlawful derivative work that reproduced its copyrighted image. His main argument was that the photo couldn’t be considered an infringing derivative work simply because it captured Deadly Doll’s design.

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JD Supra Law

JUNE 15, 2023

On May 18, in Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. Supreme Court considered which “use” of a derivative work is relevant for applying the first statutory factor of the fair-use doctrine. Goldsmith, the U.S.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

Clarifying Copyright Fair Use in Commercialized and Licensed Visual Arts: Insights from Warhol v. Goldsmith by Jaime Chandra Clarifying Fair Use in Commercialized & Licensed Visual Arts: Insights from the Warhol v. We’re talking about Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, Inc.

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SpicyIP

APRIL 15, 2024

Discussing the implications of unauthorized use of materials for training Generative AI models, we are pleased to bring to you this guest post by Goutham Rajeev and Vedant Bharadwaj Singh. Training GenAI: Infringement or Fair Use? These instances are evidence of the impact GenAI is currently having on the art industry.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 2, 2023

The Supreme Court recently upheld an appellate court’s ruling that Andy Warhol’s use of a photograph of Prince as a reference for a collection of screen prints is not fair use – to the extent his foundation decided to license them at least. Goldsmith et al, Case No. Goldsmith et al, Case No.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Dear Rich: My teen has drawn several pieces of "fan art," following a challenge to begin with a known character and re-draw it into something more original. I would like to use the drawings in a music video. Unless your video achieves mind-blowing virality ratios , the copyright owner is unlikely to learn of your use.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 18, 2023

.” Turns out – in addition to the Vanity Fair illustration – Warhol made a series of 16 additional works derived from Goldsmith’s photo. When Prince died in 2016, Vanity Fair’s parent company (Condé Nast) purchased a license from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 9, 2024

Visual art for examples, but can be extended to music and text. Is this relevant to fair use? Satire involves using the same style to clothe different ideas; therefore it shouldn’t infringe (lack of substantial similarity as in the Greatest American Hero case; German case law; perhaps the jury’s reasoning in the Kat von D case).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Fair use in US ( Google Books but reuse pattern different here. Fair dealing c. EU (CDSM arts 3-4; obligation concerning sufficiently detailed summary in June 2023 draft of AI Act) d. Japan (Art. Singapore (computational data analysis; user must not “use the copy for any other purpose”) f.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 7, 2023

A pair of copyright decisions issued in May, one involving the appropriation artist Richard Prince [1] and the other involving works portraying the musician known as Prince, explore and expand on the “fair use” defense to copyright infringement. On May 11, the U.S. 2] A week later, the U.S. 3] Graham v.

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IP Tech Blog

AUGUST 4, 2023

Blog editor and partner in our IP group, Joe Grasser, covers one of the year’s most intriguing IP cases, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. As many will recall, SCOTUS recently upheld a ruling that an early 1980s Andy Warhol’s photograph of the artist Prince was not fair use. Goldsmith et al, Case No.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

Basically, because an NFT is an encoded digital metadata file of a copy of a work that can be copyright protected. That is, in an NFT there can be an underlying copy of a work of art –typically an image, photograph, piece of music, video or certain audiovisual content– that may be subject to copyright.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

106, et seq): the plaintiffs never authorized Meta to make copies of their works and derivative works, publicly display copies (or derivative works), or distribute copies (or derivative works) during the training process of the LLaMA language models. Vicarious Copyright Infringement (17 U.S.C. §

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Velocity of Content

AUGUST 9, 2022

I knew a bare minimum about him, but my trip to the museum immersed me in a whole world of Warhol that included a panoply of works from installation art to his more iconic pieces. One work , which I had not previously known about, consisted of a black room with silvery balloons moved by fans this way and that.

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Professor Reese’s Transformativeness and the Derivative Work Right , 31 Colum. & Arts 467 (2008), whose analysis I followed in Content, Purpose, or Both? The reason I’m not convinced this gets us very far is that one still needs to identify favored “purposes” and “characters,” since that’s not self-evident.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 4, 2023

Blog editor and partner in our IP group, Joe Grasser, covers one of the year’s most intriguing IP cases, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. The case – and the SCOTUS ruling – have many in the art world still thinking through the impact. You have to look at the use, not the work, but the use.”

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Velocity of Content

JUNE 8, 2022

Preface: I wanted to learn more about the concept (and applications) of “derivative works” and adaptations under copyright law, and I was searching for a useful example that might also be interesting for readers of Velocity of Content to read about. All copyrights, except one, expire.*.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 5, 2023

On May 18, 2023, the United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of famed rock photographer Lynn Goldsmith against the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.’s ’s (AWF), [1] in a long-awaited decision impacting fair use under Section 107(1) of the Copyright Act.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 26, 2023

On May 18, 2023, the United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of famed rock photographer Lynn Goldsmith against the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.’s ’s (AWF), [1] in a long-awaited decision impacting fair use under Section 107(1) of the Copyright Act.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 19, 2022

Over the past quarter-century, transformative use has become shorthand for fair use itself. When I first heard that the Supreme Court had agreed to take up the fair use fight over Andy Warhol’s “Prince Series,” my first reaction was “Oh wow.”. Fair use is supposed to be about balance and flexibility.

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IP Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2023

Sy Damle, (2016-2018 General Counsel) testified that “the training of AI models will generally fall within the established bounds of fair use.” (S. See Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. The Warhol Estate appealed, but only on the first fair use factor. Damle introductory statement, Tr. 1258, (2023).

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Discussing the decision of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Hachette Book Group v. Internet Archive, our fellowship applicant Tanishka Goswami explains the implication of the decision on fair use. The NEL was held to be a derivative work, and the Archive’s lending practices violative of copyright law.

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