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Fleetwood Facts: Art Imitates Life, But Does It Infringe Copyright?

Copyright Lately

A new lawsuit over Broadway’s Stereophonic tests copyright’s limits, as Fleetwood Mac’s former sound engineer claims the hit play copies his real-life story about working on the Rumours album. Case in point is the recent lawsuit over the magazine article that inspired the film Top Gun.

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

Indiana Intellectual Property Law

Supreme Court has ruled that Andy Warhol’s orange silkscreen portrait of musician Prince, adapted from a photograph by Lynn Goldsmith, does not qualify as “fair use” under copyright law. The commercial nature of the copying further weighed against fair use.

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Is Generative AI Fair Use of Copyright Works? NYT v. OpenAI

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Over the course of a decade, Google copied large volumes of books and made them available online, both through excerpts, known as “snippets”, and as entire publications. As in the present context, the initial concern of copyright holders was that their consent had not been acquired by Google prior to scanning their works.

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

The IP Law Blog

In a closely watched copyright case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Andy Warhol’s portraits of music legend Prince did not qualify as fair use under copyright law. However, the majority rejected this argument, stating that the new expression alone did not determine the purpose or character of the copying use.

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Let’s put the cards on the table: Are games copyrightable?

Garrigues Blog

The question therefore is: Can board games be protected by copyright? Lets put the cards on the table: from the Copyright Law and case law that interprets it can be inferred, that, generally speaking, the mechanics of a game do not meet the requirements to be protected as an intellectual property work.

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What Goldsmith Means to AI Trainers

IP Intelligence

Warhol created these silkscreens from a photograph of Prince taken by Lynn Goldsmith, who claimed copyright infringement when the Warhol estate licensed Orange Prince to Conde Nast after Prince’s passing in 2016 to illustrate an article about Prince’s life and music.

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Copyright Infringement by Andy Warhol in his Celebrity Silkscreen Series

IPilogue

Goldsmith said she was not aware of Warhol’s work until Tribute magazine featured the image, without crediting her, when Prince passed away in 2016. In fact, nearly all creations by Andy Warhol are derivatives of existing images—celebrity photos, advertisements, magazine illustrations, etc.—to