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3 Count: Maverick Lawsuit

Plagiarism Today

They claim that they exercised their copyright termination rights to the 1986 magazine article written by Ehud Yonay upon which the original Top Gun movie was based. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. The lawsuit was filed by Shosh and Yuval Yonay, the widow and son of Ehud Yonay.

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The EU imperative to a free public domain: The case of Italian cultural heritage

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Introducing Article 14 of the Copyright in Digital Single Market Directive (CDSMD) , the EU legislator made it mandatory across the 27 Member States to ensure that faithful reproductions of visual artworks belonging to the public domain remain free to circulate and be used across the Union.

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Supreme Court Rules adaption of Warhol print not “fair use”

Indiana Intellectual Property Law

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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Infographic | Copyright legal dispute

Olartemoure Blog

He used a cropped photo based on one of Goldsmith’s images to create his artwork. The photographer became aware of the use of her photograph in 2016 when Prince died, and the Andy Warhol Foundation licensed the use of Warhol’s “Prince Series” to use in a magazine commemorating his life.

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Top Trademark Trends of 2022

Erik K Pelton

One example was the November release of the Her Loss album by artists Drake and 21 Savage which included a fake Vogue magazine cover as part of the album artwork, as well as a fake version of Vogue magazine.

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SCOTUS Rules Andy Warhol’s Prince Portraits Are Not Fair Use

The IP Law Blog

The decision affirms a previous ruling by the Second Circuit, which found that Warhol’s artwork shared the same commercial purpose as the original photograph taken by photographer Lynn Goldsmith. The Andy Warhol Foundation contended that the artworks were transformative and gave new meaning to Goldsmith’s photo.

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TTABlog Test: Which of These Three Section 2(d) Refusals Was/Were Reversed?

The TTABlog

for “Collectible sports trading cards; Sports trading cards,” in view of the identical mark registered for "Comic books; magazines featuring printed stories in illustrated form and comic book stories and artwork, namely, comic magazines; printed periodicals in the nature of magazines in the field of comic book stories and artwork; series of comic book (..)

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