IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Copyright And Copyright Law Copyright is one of the crucial parts of Intellectual Property Rights which helps the owner of any creative work to have a legal right over the possession of such work or art. Such work may include any literary or artistic work such as books, articles, films, databases, computer programs etc.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Copyright laws play a crucial role in protecting creative expressions such as literary works, artistic works and musical works. This exclusive rights comprises of the right to copy, distribute, perform, license or adapt the work. Secondly, several have contended that DMCA jeopardizes fair use.

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The IP Law Blog

JANUARY 19, 2023

In this case, the Supreme Court will decide whether the Andy Warhol Foundation made fair use of a photo of the late artist Prince. In short, the matter at issue will address when a work is sufficiently transformative to qualify for fair use protection under the Copyright Act. Hetronic International.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 12, 2023

This issue was cleared in Civic Chandran case wherein the Court held that ‘the purpose of reproduction of artistic work i.e., counter drama was not misappropriation, to produce a play similar to the original. Vipul Amrutlal Shah (2009) and MRF Limited v.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 29, 2024

Ramkumar Jewellers , wherein it was held that an individual should be able to control the circumstances around the use of their identification. [8] This usually applies in cases of news, parody, commentary, non-commercial use etc. It usually entails review, commentary, satire, comedy, criticism over the original work.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 23, 2023

Stable Diffusion Doesn’t Store Copies of Training Images The complaint also mischaracterizes Stable Diffusion by asserting that images used to train the model are “stored at and incorporated” into the tool as “compressed copies.” The current Stable Diffusion model uses about 5 gigabytes of data.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Specifically, copyright protection attaches to the original, creative work when it is fixed in a tangible medium, such as when it is written, drawn, recorded digitally, or typed electronically. ” It also protects images, photos, videos, and other written work, such as blog posts. Making a copy of a video or audio recording.

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Velocity of Content

JUNE 15, 2023

“If an original work and a secondary use share the same or highly similar purposes, and the secondary use is of a commercial nature, the first factor is likely to weigh against fair use, absent some other justification for copying.” Fair use is always extremely fact dependent.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JULY 21, 2023

The word ‘copyright’ in its simplest sense is an amalgamation of the two words ‘copy’ and ‘right’ which leads to the meaning— ‘right to copy’. The section 2(c) of the 1957 Copyright Act of India defines ‘artistic work’ as any work that includes engraving, sculpture, painting, or a photograph. In Alexander v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2021

For example, if a third-party poster copies a newspaper article and posts it to their social media page, the court implies that the social media service can never assert Section 230 protection for that article–even if the third-party poster isn’t infringing copyright because of, say, fair use. Publicity Rights.

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IIPRD

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Copyright is essentially a right to copy. Copyright is a term describing rights given to creators for their literary and artistic works. It’s an intellectual property, if an individual owns the copyright to something, then he’s the only owner of it and also the decider that who can copy it.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 19, 2023

In this case, the Supreme Court will decide whether the Andy Warhol Foundation made fair use of a photo of the late artist Prince. In short, the matter at issue will address when a work is sufficiently transformative to qualify for fair use protection under the Copyright Act. Hetronic International.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 22, 2024

The domain of copyright deals with the literary, musical, dramatic, and artistic works, and cinematograph films. Before the digital era, copyright protected tangible art or works, allowing authors to easily regulate usage, copies, and earnings.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JULY 21, 2023

The word ‘ copyright ’ in its simplest sense is an amalgamation of the two words ‘copy’ and ‘right’ which leads to the meaning— ‘right to copy’. The section 2(c) of the 1957 Copyright Act of India defines ‘artistic work’ as any work that includes engraving, sculpture, painting, or a photograph. In Alexander v.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 7, 2023

A third reflection emerges: undoubtedly, Warhol’s work was created based on Goldsmith’s. However, it is important to recognize that all artistic works are influenced by those that came before them. [1] 3] Regardless of the creative level of a work, copyright comes with limitations. 37, 2018). [3]

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IIPRD

AUGUST 11, 2023

There is no question of fair use as although it is not commercially beneficial but it is neither limited to private use. This makes it difficult for the creator to control the dissemination of their works. For content piracy, Takeshobo Inc.,

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

In his motion, Rothschild argued that he used “MetaBirkins” as a title to an artistic work as opposed to a source-identifying trademark. Although the order does not resolve any of Hermes’ claims on the merits, it does offer a first glimpse at how courts may treat trademark claims involving NFTs moving forward.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 20, 2023

As argued by Jack Daniel’s, “[u]nder Rogers , an expressive work is allowed to confuse as long as the use of a mark is artistically relevant and not explicitly misleading. meaning] pervasive copying and trading off a brand’s goodwill [that] tends to confuse will get a Lanham Act pass under Rogers.”

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Summary of current treatment: Although courts have often referred to “expressive” or “artistic” works as shorthand for the scope of Rogers, they have applied it to speech that quali?es Thus, it may not even be descriptive fair use to use the name of the religion from which the dissenters have parted.

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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] It found that all four fair use factors weighed against fair use. [12] Goldsmith counterclaimed for copyright infringement.

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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. By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa By a 7-2 vote, the U.S. Goldsmith , No. 569 (1994).

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 5, 2023

Warhol and his Foundation’s claim of fair use lost. The case began after Prince died in 2016, when Vanity Fair magazine’s parent company, Condé Nast, published a special commemorative magazine celebrating his life. ” The license provided that the use would be for “one time” only.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

VIP Products, on the other hand, argued that their toy was protected under the doctrine of “fair use” as it was being used in a non-trademark sense, and that it was not likely to cause confusion among consumers. Rogers , 875 F.2d ” Id. ” Id. In VIP Products v. Jack Daniels Products , 953 F.3d

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Patently-O

OCTOBER 11, 2022

On October 12, 2022, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the fair use copyright case of Andy Warhol Foundation, Inc. Andy Warhol admittedly used Lynn Goldmith’s copyrighted photographs of Prince as the basis for his set of sixteen silkscreens. by Dennis Crouch. Goldsmith , Docket No. 21-869 (2022). 569 (1994).

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Velocity of Content

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

2 In the former case, the court moved from an apparent position of significant skepticism at oral argument to an affirmation of fair use for the sale of home video recording devices (VCRs) as a dual-use technology capable of both infringing and substantial non-infringing uses. Ginsburg & R. Dreyfuss eds.,

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