Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

This examined the problem of authors’ remuneration: authors’ contracts tend to result in disproportionately low revenues relative to the returns of investors and intermediaries. Importantly, the parties may not contract out of this right to readjustment. Reversion of rights That said, some balance is offered in the U.S.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

MARCH 9, 2022

addition of written or pictorial elements) of a work not in the public domain and/or where the creator is still alive. infringement of the creator’s exclusive right to reproduce and/or prepare a derivative work) or VARA/moral rights (i.e., For the most part, liability may be avoidable: museums could defend any copyright (e.g.,

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Traverse Legal Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Unlike traditional proprietary software, SaaS or PaaS business models where license terms can often be renegotiated or amended in subsequent contract cycles, open-source licensing is far less forgiving of afterthoughts. Second, altering the license could alienate a project’s community, leading to forks or abandonment.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Unlike traditional proprietary software, SaaS or PaaS business models where license terms can often be renegotiated or amended in subsequent contract cycles, open-source licensing is far less forgiving of afterthoughts. Second, altering the license could alienate a project’s community, leading to forks or abandonment.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Lunney: benefits of © system may also include consumption of © works: attending theater, buying albums, books. Mailyn Fidler, Cross-Racial Copyright Litigation in Music: Only a Paper Moon? Have Black musicians been able to use copyright litigation to push back against cross-racial appropriation (Three Boys), is it equal (Campbell v.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Much of the litigation thus turns on what it means for a similarity to be probative of copying. Hived off of fair use and became its own defense in early 20 th century, then became swallowed by substantial similarity, which is a huge problem b/c it was about market substitution and it means the derivative work rights ballooned.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Now, further initiatives are needed to support the tailoring of a copyright regime, in contract and statute, to encourage the use of reversion provisions. Finally, Thomas queries whether copyright or contract is the more apt regulator of online platforms. Directions for future research are only likely to grow.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 13, 2022

Although none has reached a resolution, these private civil actions highlight various legal theories of liability that could arise when participating in the NFT market, including claims for copyright infringement, trademark infringement, breach of contract and violations of securities laws. Copyright Claims: Roc-A-Fella Records Inc.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 9, 2024

seems like this is going to have trouble with derivative works] Amanda Levendowski, Fairer Public Benefit Bias and harms of works aren’t taken into account in fair use analysis: recruits a legal tool typically aimed at one set of problems for the purpose of cleverly addressing a different set of problems. What about Congress?

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

A relatively new willingness to litigate, but lack of awareness/understanding of copyright law in Carribean is a barrier. Risk of strategic litigation; most restrictive jurisdiction prevails, leading to race to the bottom. Contract instead of ©? Google’s global injunction against Google requiring delisting a site worldwide.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

If not, the court may have to address several other interesting, rarely-litigated issues concerning the proper scope of copyright in recorded interviews. Based solely on the complaint that was filed, there are six major issues raised by the case: First, were the recorded interviews a copyright-eligible “work of authorship”?

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The IP Law Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Trump contends that Woodward did not request to expand the scope of a release or furnish a release to use the interview sound recordings for an audiobook or any other derivative work, as is customary in the book publishing and recording industries. So there’s no stories coming out, okay.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 11, 2022

Do other jurisdictions have litigation over editors/give © credit to editors? Also: what about derivative works? So how do you build in that to recognize contribution to singular work v. creation of derivative work. Benefits: it’s about copyright, not contract, law. Not available in ©.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 10, 2024

” Trump Responding Brief at 5. As Professors Post and Rothman described it (at 106 and fn. ” As Mary Catherine Amerine observed in her article Wrestling Over Republication Rights: Who Owns The Copyright Of Interviews?

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