Copyright Lately

JANUARY 23, 2023

Instead, the lawsuit is premised upon a much more sweeping and bold assertion—namely that every image that’s output by these AI tools is necessarily an unlawful and infringing “derivative work” based on the billions of copyrighted images used to train the models. The Copyright Act Definition is Broad, But.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 29, 2024

Certain sections like 2(qq) and 38, define a “performer” and specify whether a person’s personality falls under the definition of a performer, under which a performer’s right may be asserted, hence prohibiting the unapproved marketing of a performer’s work.

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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

Ochoa’s definitive analysis of the Supreme Court’s Warhol opinion. 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.

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IIPRD

APRIL 8, 2024

Accusations of copyright infringement have come up in recent times by creators, however the way generators like stable diffusion function, they transform these images to an extent where they appear to be a new creation, such nature and the application of the fair use doctrine appears to be an alternate legal argument for these apps.

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IIPRD

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Copyright is a term describing rights given to creators for their literary and artistic works. Copyright doesn’t protect all forms of information from copying but it provides a useful bundle of rights that protects data on the Internet and electronic bulletin board systems. Copyright is essentially a right to copy.

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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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