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Katfriend Dr Sabine Jacques , Associate Professor in IP, IT & Media law at the University of East Anglia and author of The Parody Exception in CopyrightLaw (OUP 2019), provides the follow review of The Copyright/Trademark Interface: How the Expansion of Trademark Protection is Stifling Cultural Creativity – by Martin Senftleben.
At the district court level, the law of copyright preemption is a morass of ad hoc explanations of whether certain contracts are “equivalent” to the exclusive rights within the general scope of copyrightlaw. Platforms that copy online data and use it to create AI have a strong fair use argument under copyrightlaws.
When looking into company assets protectable under federal copyrightlaws, one should check the company’s website, marketing materials, manuals, YouTube videos, podcasts, posted content on Instagram, TikTok, and the like, photos, software, blog posts, articles, white papers, etc.
Netflix could have sent Barlow & Bear a cease and desist letter hand-delivered by Regé-Jean Page. Frankly, if Barlow & Bear’s work doesn’t infringe Netflix’s exclusive right to create derivative works under copyrightlaw, I’m not sure what would. Even better, it’s in the publicdomain.
(“PRO”), a nonprofit organization dedicated to facilitating public access to government records and legal materials, posted the OCGA online and distributed copies to various organizations and Georgia officials. After several cease-and-desist demands, the Commission filed suit against PRO for infringing its copyright in the annotations.
When looking into company assets protectable under federal copyrightlaws, one should check the company’s website, marketing materials, manuals, YouTube videos, podcasts, posted content on Instagram, TikTok, and the like, photos, software, blog posts, articles, white papers, etc.
Publicdomain works are freeunless misinformation and aggressive claims deter the public from freely using them. publicdomain 95 years after their initial publication by Belgian artist Herg. January 27, 2025 email from Tintinimaginatio to Duke Law’s Center for the Study of the PublicDomain.
The Code of the Cultural and Landscape Heritage’s legal force is separate from copyrightlaws and remains in effect when copyright protection does not. Photo Credits: The Fashion Law ; Jean Paul Gaultier ). The Birth of Venus is in the publicdomain because it was created by Botticelli in the mid-1480s.
. — For the claims related to illegal selling of scraped data, the court dismissed those because they were preempted by copyright. I did a deep dive on this topic in December , but the general gist of it is that copyrightlaw preempts state law claims if the state-law claims come within the general scope of copyright.
This type of expression should remain in the publicdomain available for everyone to use on expressive merchandise to convey ideas, information, and other messages. What traditional First Amendment test (if any) could be used to evaluate the constitutionality of viewpoint-neutral trademark laws? Tam ” (pages 433 n.
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