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Understanding Copyright, Trademark and Halloween Costumes

Plagiarism Today

Costumes are considered “useful articles” and, similar to most of the fashion industry , does not qualify for any kind of copyright protection. . First, design elements that are “physically or conceptually separate” from the article can be protected. However, commercial use of costumes still raises legal questions.

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Artists Attack AI: Why The New Lawsuit Goes Too Far

Copyright Lately

Over the past week, the plaintiffs’ lawsuit has been the subject of thousands of articles which have largely parroted the complaint’s key talking point: that AI image generators are nothing more than “ a 21st-century collage tool that remixes the copyright works of millions of artists whose work was used as training data.”

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3 Count: Insta Victory

Plagiarism Today

That artwork was used by Koons in his later work, prompting the lawsuit. Therefore, he argues, the work is a useful article and doesn’t qualify for copyright protection. Therefore, he argues, the work is a useful article and doesn’t qualify for copyright protection.

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The clash of artistic rights: Warhol, Goldsmith, and the boundaries of copyright in Brazil and in the U.S.

Kluwer Copyright Blog

This is explicitly stated in Article 5, XXVII, of the Brazilian Constitution, and Article 1, Section 8, of the United States Constitution. 2] At one end of the spectrum, we find plagiarism: a completely derivative work that fails to contribute any creative elements to the original piece.

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Is the Grinch Slasher Film a Protected Parody?

Plagiarism Today

While parody isn’t protected in the Constitution, fair use was codified into U.S. In that case, ComicMix LLC was seeking to release a comic book that mashed up themes from the two elements, only to have the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rule against them, saying it was not protected by fair use. Where Who’s Holiday!