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Copyright Parody Exception Denied Due to Defendant’s Discriminatory Use

TorrentFreak

is one of the most interesting cases in history to rely on a fair use defense, arguing that the alleged infringement qualifies as a parody. ” 2 Live Crew had previously sought to license the track from Acuff-Rose to be used as a parody; Acuff-Rose refused and 2 Live Crew used it anyway. .” Campbell v.

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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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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] ANALYSIS/PREDICTION.

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Supreme Court Sides with Photographer Goldsmith in Warhol Case

LexBlog IP

The Court held that the first factor of the copyright fair use test favored respondent photographer, Lynn Goldsmith, rather than petitioner, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (“AWF”). Around this time, Goldsmith learned of the additional works comprising the Prince Series. for Visual Arts, Inc.

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Cloned-and-Revised Legal Documents Aren’t Copyrightable–UIRC v. William Blair

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The plaintiff gets an expensive lesson in the law of derivative works. * * * UIRC offers bonds using a private placement memorandum (PPM) and an indenture of trust. There was no question about the copying–the revised William Blair documents sloppily retained references to UIRC). See, e.g., White v. See also Prof.

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Generative AI, Copyright and the AI Act

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The biggest copyright law question in the EU and US is probably whether using in-copyright works to train generative AI models is copyright infringement or falls under the transient and temporary copying and TDM exceptions (in the EU) or fair use (in the US). HathiTrust and Authors Guild v.

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WIPIP Concurrent Session #5 Copyright & Culture

43(B)log

Said: Framing it as “the woman question” is rhetorically tricky and still positions women as the problem—why not “the copyright question: woman edition”? Have Black musicians been able to use copyright litigation to push back against cross-racial appropriation (Three Boys), is it equal (Campbell v. Would it allow fair use?