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South Africa Rejects Copyright Lobby Critique, Defends Broad ‘Fair Use’ Exceptions

TorrentFreak

companies are among the global market leaders. To protect the interests of these businesses around the world, copyright holder groups can count on help from the U.S. IIPA is concerned that South Africa isn’t doing enough to deter copyright infringement. to use it as a basis for sanctions. Government.

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Eleventh Circuit Gives the Slip to the Duct-Taped Banana Copyright Appeel–Morford v. Cattelan

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

It implicates most of the key issues, including copyrightability (especially the idea/expression dichotomy); infringement; and fair use. The opposite of “copying-in-fact” is independent creation, i.e., the defendant independently executed a similar output to the copyright-protected work.

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GTA Modders to Court: Our Game Fixes & Enhancements Are Fair Use, Not Piracy

TorrentFreak

The company demanded damages under copyright law claiming that the team “willfully and maliciously” copied, adapted and distributed its source code and other content without permission. Affirmative Defense – Fair Use. As such, US copyright law lacks reach, the defendants say.

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The Doctrine of Fair Use in Copyright Law

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

The Doctrine of Fair Use is a concept that originates from the case of Folsom vs. Marsh. Justice Story observed in his judgement, when the courts of law decide on cases like this, they must look to the nature and objects of the selection mode, the quantity and value of material used. Percentage of Original Material Used.

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Kanye West Faces A Copyright Infringement Lawsuit: Is “Fair Use” Fair?

IPilogue

The Act states that copyright owners are entitled to “damages and profits of the infringer that are attributable to the infringement.”. An artist who fails to acquire permission from the copyright owner can use the ‘fair use’ defence. The fair use defence is rarely used in music sampling cases.

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Copy and Paste – Supreme Court Holds Copying Software Function Calls Was Fair Use

TraskBritt Intellectual Property

When developing Android, Google had copied the text and format of function calls from Oracle’s Java SE Application Programming Interface (API). LEXIS 1864 (2021), the Supreme Court held that Google’s copying was permissible fair use. In Google LLC v. 18-956, 2021 U.S. Software and IP.

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Supreme Court Holds Warhol’s “Orange Prince” Not Transformative, Not Fair Use

IP Tech Blog

The Supreme Court recently upheld an appellate court’s ruling that Andy Warhol’s use of a photograph of Prince as a reference for a collection of screen prints is not fair use – to the extent his foundation decided to license them at least. Goldsmith et al, Case No. Unbeknownst to Ms.