Olartemoure Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

This decision provides legal certainty to the audiovisual industry in copyright infringement disputes in Colombia and the Andean Community. La entrada Incidental use of artworks se publicó primero en OlarteMoure | Intellectual Property.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 27, 2022

3: Immersive Experiences and Copyright: TeamLab Sues MODS for ‘Copying their Artwork’ Finally today, Jonny Walfisz at Euronews reports that the Tokyo-based art collective teamLab has filed a lawsuit against the Los Angeles-based museum, the Museum of Dream Space (MODS) alleging copyright infringement.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 18, 2021

Most notably, that included the PUBG Corporation, which filed a lawsuit against Epic Games in May 2018 for alleged copyright infringement. To be clear, this doesn’t mean that a copyright infringement or other lawsuit is coming. Still, that didn’t stop many from accusing Epic games of ripping off PUBG.

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JD Supra Law

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Originally published on Copyright Lately. AI-generated art isn’t perfect, but it’s become a viable option for license-free set decoration in motion pictures and other commercial productions. Here’s what you need to know. By: Greenberg Glusker LLP

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 22, 2022

Movie studio Miramax, which owns most of the rights to the film, sees the plan as a contract breach and copyright infringement. For example, the early artwork featured iconic depictions of Samuel L. The original artwork was labeled as copyright-infringing by Miramax so this change appears to be a direct response to this claim.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

First off today, Adam Schrader at UPI reports that New York artist Kris Kashtanova has received a copyright registration for a graphic novel entitled Zarya of the Dawn , representing the first known copyright registration granted to a work of AI-generated artwork.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 3, 2022

Unicolors is the owner of copyrights in various fabric designs, including a 2011 copyright registration that consisted of 31 separate designs. If so, Justice Breyer continued, does that mistake even matter for purposes of determining whether Unicolor should prevail on its copyright infringement claim.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 7, 2022

King was convicted of being the leader of a variety of companies that traded in copyright infringing products. Stephen Thaler has filed a lawsuit against the United States Copyright Office (USCO) hoping to overturn the USCO’s decision to not grant a copyright registration for an AI created piece of artwork.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 9, 2022

As reported, in 2020, the copyright office rejected an application which listed AI (RAGHAV) as the sole author for an artwork. However, a second application was filed where a natural person and an AI (again (RAGHAV) were named as co-authors for another artwork. This copyright office granted registration in this case.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Introduction AI-generated art is booming, and the Indian Copyright Office is baffled. AI generated art is made autonomously by artificial intelligence without human creative input (see below for the artwork Dall-E 2 created in response to my suggestion “a machine painting a canvas”). The basis for registration is not specified.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Atari’s copyright infringement lawsuit against State Farm advances, underscoring the importance of careful clearance in advertising. On Friday, a Texas federal judge dismissed much of the case but kept Atari’s core copyright infringement claim in play. Conversely, in Ringgold v.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This act is often done without the prior consent or permission of the copyright holder or the photographer of the picture. Thus, the question arises if such use attracts copyright infringement. If the photo taken without any prior consent is edited and used for a commercial benefit, then it might attract copyright infringement.

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

In the last 20 years, the contemporary art industry has doubled the number of auction houses participating in the sale of artworks. Digital platforms have made it increasingly easy to disseminate unauthorized copies of art works that are copyright protected. Image Source: gettyimages]. IPR and contemporary art. McDonald’s Corp.:

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JUNE 23, 2022

In China’s first copyright infringement case including NFT digital work, a court recently decided. On Bigverse, the plaintiff learned that a user had created and sold a nearly similar NFT digital work to the copyrighted item in dispute, complete with the artist’s Weibo watermark. Background.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JUNE 23, 2022

In China’s first copyright infringement case including NFT digital work, a court recently decided. Background (NFT Copyright). On Bigverse, the plaintiff learned that a user had created and sold a nearly similar NFT digital work to the copyrighted item in dispute, complete with the artist’s Weibo watermark.

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IPilogue

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Background Banksy’s graffiti artwork Laugh Now first appeared in Brighton, England, in 2002. Typically, artists protect their artwork using only copyright law. However, artists are required to reveal their identity when claiming copyright infringement. street artist Banksy.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

Such NFTs were never put on a blockchain nor offered to the public (they were what are known as “lazy minted NFTs”). VEGAP has announced that it has appealed this judgment.

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IPilogue

JUNE 13, 2022

Listing someone else’s artwork on an NFT marketplace is as simple as saving a copy of the work from an artist’s website or social media platform and uploading it onto a marketplace where it is minted into an NFT. Alternatively, authors can inform marketplaces of copyright infringement and request the removal of infringing content.

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Olartemoure Blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

He used a cropped photo based on one of Goldsmith’s images to create his artwork. There was no image copyright credit or compensation to Lynn Goldsmith. The photographer threatened to sue the Foundation alleging copyright infringement.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 5, 2022

For example, early artwork featuring Samuel L. The original image was labeled as copyright-infringing by Miramax so this change appears to be a direct response to this claim. In addition, several tweets from the Tarantino NFT team with alleged copyright-infringing material were deleted as well.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

JUNE 1, 2023

In a 7-2 majority opinion authored by Justice Sotomayor, the court found that both Warhol’s artwork and Goldsmith’s original photograph served the same purpose of depicting Prince in magazine stories about him. The commercial nature of the copying further weighed against fair use.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 1, 2022

NFTs are not without copyright issues, however, as Quentin Tarantino swiftly discovered. Movie studio Miramax, which owns most of the rights to the film, sees the plan as a contract breach and copyright infringement. NFT Copyright Battle.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 22, 2023

However, Warhol went further and created a series of artwork based on Goldsmith’s photograph. Years later, Goldsmith granted a limited one-time use license for Vanity Fair to use one of her photos of Prince as an “artistic reference for an illustration.” The illustration was Andy Warhol’s portrait of Prince known as “Purple Prince.”

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Art Law Journal

JUNE 16, 2022

It’s heartbreaking to find your artwork on a t-shirt at Forever 21 or as an image on someone’s blog without your permission. The theft of your intellectual property, also known as an infringement, is not that different from any theft of your property — except you can’t go to the police to help you get justice. Let’s find out.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 24, 2023

According to Mojang, these are all copyright infringing, even though they may not all use copyrighted content directly. Exact source code or pixel perfect images do not need to be in the repo to constitute copyright infringement,” Mojang writes. However, that doesn’t completely stop the problem.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Other claims in the complaint include the unlawful reproduction of copyrighted artwork and game files, plus inducing and contributing to the copyright-infringing acts of Ring-1 customers, who allegedly create unauthorized derivative works when they deploy Ring-1 cheats. Defendants Picked Off, One By One.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Unfortunately, however, Section 113(c) is like the Generation X of copyright law—it’s remarkably useful, underrated, and largely overlooked—even by copyright lawyers and judges. One of Deadly Doll’s popular designs is a cartoon image of a bikini-clad pin-up girl holding a skull: Deadly Doll’s original artwork.

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IPilogue

MARCH 16, 2022

The letter, which describes the site’s actions as “outright theft” and “outrageous as it is brazen,” further demands that HitPiece.com “provide[s] a complete listing of site activities and revenues to date, and account for all NFTs and artwork auctioned off.”. Music NFTs Create New Possibilities for Artists.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 25, 2022

The notice, sent by anti-piracy company Irdeto on behalf of Blizzard Entertainment, is verifiably legitimate and addresses a genuine case of copyright infringement. As expected, the notice received full cooperation from Github under the DMCA and the offending content was removed as the law requires.

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Recently, Shein is once again being sued for copyright infringement. District Court, Central District of California, on June 15 suing Shein for over $100 million in damages for unauthorized reproductions of her artwork “One is good, more is better.”. In 2019, Mollman registered this artwork with the U.S.

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 31, 2024

Video game publisher Atari Interactive has launched a copyright infringement lawsuit against State Farm, claiming that the insurer improperly appropriated artwork from Atari’s 1983 arcade game “Crystal Castles” for an advertising campaign as part of a “cynical plot” to resonate with fickle millennial and Gen Z consumers.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 3, 2024

The use of pirated content, to promote and support crimes typically considered to be more serious, provides rightsholders with a golden opportunity to place copyright infringement in the same conversation as illegal gambling and money laundering.

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Traverse Legal Blog

APRIL 1, 2021

NFTs are being used to store smart contracts and authentication for digital artwork and other digital assets. People will bid on an NFT, a non-fungible token, associated with a piece of digital artwork. Sometimes they’re not going to get what they paid for, or the digital artwork will disappear.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

DMCA subpoenas compel service providers, such as Discord, Twitter or Reddit, to hand over information they hold on users identified by rightsholders as copyright infringers. A full-blown copyright infringement lawsuit is one possibility, but the company may use the information to end or mitigate future infringement instead.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Courts have identified “core” First Amendment expression to be political speech and religious speech; in this matter, the alleged posting of unauthorized copies of Cognosphere’s Genshin Impact artwork is neither. However, the unauthorized sharing of copyrighted works does qualify as speech, if only to a degree, so analysis is warranted.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 4, 2022

“But Congress, not this Court, decided as a policy matter who should bear the burden of identifying infringement in the first instance.” The court summarizes: Plaintiff appears to dislike that Pinterest obtains revenue from advertisements on its platform, on which Plaintiff’s artwork also appears.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

This case involves Morford’s 2001 artwork named “Banana and Orange.” Cattelan created artwork named “Comedian” in 2019. The court displayed the respective artworks: Morford sued Cattelan for copyright infringement. ” Independently (?),

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