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3 Count: Swimsuit Edition

Plagiarism Today

First off today, Kevin Shalvey at Business Insider reports that “Sports Illustrated” swimsuit model Genevieve Morton has filed a lawsuit against Twitter alleging that the site was slow to remove infringing material and that an AI photo editing tool created unlawful derivative works.

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Copyright Parody Exception Denied Due to Defendant’s Discriminatory Use

TorrentFreak

Without obtaining permission, Lokka made a copy of the report, added his own subtitles, and then retransmitted the new version to the public via Twitter. When he copied and then rebroadcast the news report, that was copyright infringement. . Subtitle Defense 2.0:

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Using that classic piece of art on a book cover: Grr…

The IPKat

Works of art, in the form of the reproduction of a painting, frequently adorns the cover of a reissued edition of a renowned novel. Consider the following book cover of the Penguin Classics edition of Jane Austen's novel, " Mansfield Pak ". You can't judge a book from its cover". "You You can't judge a book from its cover".

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HIT NETFLIX CONTENT AND THE COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT THAT FOLLOWS

JIPL Online

The Conan Doyle estate, heirs to the author of the works about the famed detective Sherlock Holmes, alleged that Netflix infringed on the character Sherlock Holmes in its portrayal of Sherlock Holmes in the 2020 movie “Enola Holmes.” [2] 18] Netflix admitted it had access to and copied the memoir. [19]

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How to Avoid Pitfalls on the Way to Decentralized Disney

Copyright Lately

What about editing some NBA Top Shots moments to create a fantasy matchup between Michael Jordan and Steph Curry? The first thing that’s important to understand is that buying a copy of a creative work, even if it happens to the only copy in existence, doesn’t give you any copyright interest in the work.

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First duel between NFTs and copyright before the Spanish courts: NFTs 1 – Authors 0

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Basically, because an NFT is an encoded digital metadata file of a copy of a work that can be copyright protected. That is, in an NFT there can be an underlying copy of a work of art –typically an image, photograph, piece of music, video or certain audiovisual content– that may be subject to copyright. And why is that?

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Buying an NFT? You are not buying what you think.

Traverse Legal Blog

An NFT group called TheSpiceDAO bought a copy of the book “Dune” believing they had purchased more than just the book. The essence of the news story is that TheSpiceDAO bought at auction a rare copy of “Dune” that was being auctioned off by Christie’s as just a book. The right to create derivative works.