IPilogue

MAY 26, 2022

An artist who fails to acquire permission from the copyright owner can use the ‘fair use’ defence. Under section 107 , fair use allows persons to use parts of a copyright protected work without permission for limited purposes. The fair use defence is rarely used in music sampling cases.

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The IP Law Blog

JULY 9, 2021

They provide a recap of last week’s episode , which covers the Second Circuit decision in favor of Goldsmith, the photographer whose image Warhol used to create the Prince Portraits, and the holding that Warhol’s renditions were not transformative enough to be fair use. Watch the episode on YouTube at this link.

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Nominative fair use of a trademark is a legal doctrine that can be used as a defence in some types of trademark infringement cases. Following are the measures to be taken care of while taking nominative fair use as a defence – The use of the registered trade mark was bonfide. No sponsorship or endorsement.

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Traverse Legal Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Misinterpreting Licenses: Incorrectly assuming permission to use copyrighted material. Fair Use Misconception: Believing that a particular use falls under fair use guidelines. Utilize Fair Use: Use copyrighted material within fair use guidelines, such as for educational purposes.

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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. This has important implications for the doctrine of fair use.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 25, 2021

Her previous guest post on the blog can be viewed here. Domex Advertisement: Product Disparagement or Nominative Fair Use? In this post, I offer my independent analysis of the law in relation to comparative advertising and nominative fair use and apply it against the specific YouTube commercial mentioned above.

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Art Law Journal

JULY 31, 2020

Knowing more about copyright and fair use will help you determine what is yours to use and what is off limits. Nicole Martinez.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 3, 2022

The school moved to dismiss on fair use grounds, and the district court granted the motion and awarded attorneys’ fees to the school. (I Bell appealed to the Fifth Circuit, which easily affirms the fair use dismissal and attorneys’ fees. Nature of the Use. ” Bell sued anyways. Nature of the Work.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 22, 2023

Five things to know about the Supreme Court’s new purpose-driven fair use opinion in Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith (“ Warhol “) is that relatively rare fair use case in which both the original and follow-on works were more or less directly competing in the same market. Andy Warhol Foundation v.

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Copyright Alliance

APRIL 13, 2023

Fair use and AI has been a popular topic recently given the flurry of developments to generative AI systems. As discussed in the first installation of this blog, it is […] The post How Existing Fair Use Cases Might Apply to AI appeared first on Copyright Alliance.

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 27, 2022

I received a DMCA notice for my wooden puzzle blog! It was a review of Unidragon's Alluring Fox (332 pieces). Google instead directs me to Lumen to look up the notice, but Lumen doesn't seem to have posted it yet, so that's a tad frustrating.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The court finds fair use. Purpose and Character of Use. Both aspects can have significant implications for fair use. 22, 2024) The post Reaction Videos Are Fair Use–Thiccc Boy v. 22, 2024) The post Reaction Videos Are Fair Use–Thiccc Boy v. Klein and Equals Three v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

We’ve blogged some of his cases before ( 1 , 2 ), including the lower court ruling in this case. This is what I call a “commercial editorial use”–ad-supported editorial content. Courts routinely split on whether commercial editorial use is commercial for fair use purposes. 21-2021 (4th Cir.

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Kashishipr

MAY 25, 2021

A blog is like any other creative work of literature manifested in a different form. Due to creative and original use of expressions, blogs are deemed to be counted as private property for which Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) can be sought. Copyright and Blogs. Blogging and Fair Use.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

2K Games rejected similar infringement claims on the basis of de minimis use, implied license, and fair use. To briefly summarize, the court left the fair use question entirely to the jury, despite its own pre-trial order and the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Google v. An appeal in Alexander v.

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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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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 19, 2022

In this episode of The Briefing by the IP Law Blog, Scott Hervey and Josh Escovedo discuss an intellectual property dispute between Netflix and two digital content creators who wrote a musical inspired by the hit Netflix series, Bridgerton. By: Weintraub Tobin

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Copyright Alliance

AUGUST 29, 2023

In the previous iteration of this blog (Part 1), we presented several movie copyright cases addressing the issues of copyright infringement and copyrightability. In this post, we look at TV […] The post Movie Copyright Cases Filmmakers Should Know: Part 2, Movie Fair Use Cases appeared first on Copyright Alliance.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 31, 2025

The Centre for Intellectual Property Research and Advocacy [CIPRA] of Symbiosis Law School, Hyderabad is organizing its first blog writing competition in collaboration with us on the theme of Literature, Journalism and IP. The top two entries will be awarded with some cash prizes and also with a chance to be published on the blog!

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2025

Instead, XXL relied on a fair use defense, which works: Nature of use: “the video was the subject of the news story and because the article added new information and context about the contents of the video.” The court also says it can’t consider the evidence that Mediaite used embedding on a motion to dismiss.

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Copyright Alliance

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In part one of this blog, we looked at a number of photography and documentary film copyright cases that have been decided since the Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith opinion was […] The post Fair Use in a Post-Warhol World: Part II appeared first on Copyright Alliance.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 17, 2024

While this conflict might seem minor (X’s users, after all, are not in the business of granting scraping licenses), the next one was not: Fair use. Judge Alsup suggested that X’s ToS conflict with copyright law by prohibiting scraping irrespective of whether it qualifies as fair use. The post X Corp.

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Copyright Alliance

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In May of last year, the Supreme Court handed down its much-anticipated fair use decision in Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith (referred to as Warhol throughout this blog). At the […] The post Fair Use in a Post-Warhol World: Part I appeared first on Copyright Alliance.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

Professor Farley and I propose a trademark fair use defense that would apply to any informational or expressive use of language or designs claimed by another as a mark in connection with any goods or services. Grimaldi , and later adopted and expanded by the Ninth Circuit.

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Intepat

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

For business owners, publishers, and sellers, understanding copyright can prevent legal issues and ensure fair use of content. Copyright grants the author or creator exclusive rights to use, distribute, and sell their work. This is usually done through a licensing agreement , which specifies the permitted use.

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JD Supra Law

JUNE 16, 2023

Goldsmith that Andy Warhol’s portrait of music legend Prince did not qualify as fair use under copyright law. Scott Hervey and Tara Sattler talk about this decision on this episode of The Briefing by the IP Law Blog. Supreme Court ruled in Andy Warhol Foundation v. By: Weintraub Tobin

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

[I published this post initially on the Association of Research Libraries blog in celebration of Fair Use Week 2022. Fair use is supposed to protect research bloggers in these circumstances. Defendants have also won fair use-based motions to dismiss over republishing a partial screen shot ( Yang v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 30, 2022

The Rusty Krab court expands upon these points in its subsequent section detailing findings of law, but its discussion is fairly conclusory, mainly comprising maxims about what a parody is and isn’t rather than specific discussion of the defendants’ use and why it fails to qualify. Pixi Universal, LLC, 2022 WL 909865 (S.D. March 25, 2022).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 22, 2022

The court says the Dubtown video wasn’t copyright infringing because of fair use: Purpose/Character of Use. ” The videos were transformative, even if parts of precedent material were used verbatim. .” However, McFree made transformative uses. This factor weighs slightly against fair use.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Instead, she gets a 12(b)(6) dismissal based on fair use. Purpose and Character of Use. Plus, the tattoo affected the fair use analysis because it established the impossibility of competitive tension between the tattoo artist and Netflix. Netflix appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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The IP Law Blog

JUNE 16, 2023

Goldsmith that Andy Warhol’s portrait of music legend Prince did not qualify as fair use under copyright law. Scott Hervey and Tara Sattler talk about this decision on this episode of The Briefing by the IP Law Blog. Supreme Court ruled in Andy Warhol Foundation v. Watch this episode on the Weintraub YouTube channel here.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 16, 2023

Goldsmith that Andy Warhol’s portrait of music legend Prince did not qualify as fair use under copyright law. Scott Hervey and Tara Sattler talk about this decision on this episode of The Briefing by the IP Law Blog. Supreme Court ruled in Andy Warhol Foundation v. Watch this episode on the Weintraub YouTube channel here.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The Vans decision highlights the constrains the Jack Daniel’s decision has placed on fair use arguments in trademark disputes. The post Hot Take on the Wavy Baby Decision (Guest Blog Post) appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Tam , 582 U.S. 218 (2017); Iancu v. Brunetti , 139 S. 2294 (2019).

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JD Supra Law

JUNE 17, 2022

In this episode of The Briefing by the IP Law Blog, Scott Hervey and Josh Escovedo provide an update on the copyright infringement dispute between a paparazzo and Emily Ratajkowski, and discuss the settlement’s implications for Fair Use. By: Weintraub Tobin

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

They write: Nearly half of the respondents (43.1%) were unwilling to take on any financial risk, even in a hypothetical scenario contingent on a confident fair use while most of the rest (43.8%) were only comfortable with a risk level below $10,000. Among these scholars confident of fair-use, only 3.3% About 71% of U.S.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 29, 2023

The CCB in the Final Determination sidesteps that issue, and looks to Prutton’s two defenses: fair use and unclean hands. Fair Use: From my perspective, the fair use analysis is what I’ve been waiting for. The citations for the basics of fair use do come from 9th circuit cases. 2020), cert.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2021

The court says that instead of doing a First Amendment analysis, it’s possible that a fair use analysis is sufficient for 512(h) subpoenas (citing Eldred for the principle that fair use is the First Amendment safety valve to copyright infringement). This is my last blog post for 2021. 2021 WL 6135300 (N.D.

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