Copyright Lately

MAY 6, 2022

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. So, if you buy a copy of “Dune,” you can read it. Want to Create New Derivative Works?

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 16, 2023

As a person involved in copyright on a daily basis, I’ve observed a number of events and requests for comment over the last few years on the issue of whether artificial intelligence (AI) systems can be “authors” in the copyright sense (or inventors of patents). This article was originally published in The Scholarly Kitchen. v Stability A.I.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

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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TorrentFreak

JULY 14, 2024

In the belief that the curriculum contains information supportive of the group’s cause and in the wider public interest, it’s alleged that Parrish set out to obtain a copy. He also improperly obtained and posted a digital copy of the entire LifeWise Curriculum.” If we are to assume that LifeWise Inc. And so it begins.

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 2, 2022

performances of “The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical”) or other derivative works that might compete with Netflix’s own planned live events,” including the multi-city “ Bridgerton Experience.” Copyright owners should be able to defend their works against substantial unauthorized copying used for profit.

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Kashishipr

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Each work has various rights, such as theatrical rights, distribution rights, rental rights, broadcasting rights, rights related to adoption and translation, rights to prepare derivative works, and so on, each of which can be exploited separately. These rights can be disjointedly assigned for a limited term or perpetually.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In any event, it is worth noting that the decision to delete did not stem from the artificial origin of the music, but rather from the fact that the songs were being used to collect royalties on behalf of fraudulent accounts. Essentially, FlowGPT would have fed the copied songs into the system, and that could mean copyright infringement.

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 24, 2023

The plaintiff in question was rapper Denise Jones, aka Necey X, who claimed that Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion and Atlantic Records “copied and pasted the lyrics” from her original song Grab Em by the P * to use in the hit songs WAP and Thot S**t.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

13] Instead, the Second Circuit held that the differences between the works are more akin to the differences between a novel and an adaptation of that novel—“a paradigmatic example” of a derivative work that would require a license. [14]. It found that all four fair use factors weighed against fair use. [12] Emancipation”? [34]

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Traverse Legal Blog

JANUARY 29, 2022

The NFT identifies all the transfers and events that are related to the digital asset. You’re getting a license to use, copy and display this item. The owner can grant the grantee the right to use the works or image and copy that image. In the illustration above, the grantee may not modify the work in any way.

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 11, 2023

4, 2023, FTC Roundtable event [1] that featured testimony largely from artists and writers critical of generative AI: 11 of the 12 witnesses appeared to be or to represent individual creators, and one represented open-source software developers who objected to AI training on their code. Under governing law, that is a judicial function.

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Garrigues Blog

MAY 11, 2021

351 by the Andean Community Commission, protects different forms of expression of architectural works: illustrations, maps, drawings, plans, sketches, scale models, drafts and plastic works related to architecture, and also derivative works. Indeed, Legislative Decree no. 822 – Copyright Law, in line with decision no.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

scene in the past, things seemed to come to a head in November 2020 when Nintendo sent a cease-and-desist letter to the Tournament Organizers (TOs) of the Big House, an upcoming streamed Melee tournament, and subsequently forced them to cancel the event. It is an open legal question whether this would constitute an infringing derivative work.

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Intepat

MAY 24, 2023

A music license agreement outlines the rights that will be granted , such as the number of copies of the work that can be reproduced, the applicable territory or countries, whether it is exclusive or non exclusive etc. This includes specifying which state or location’s laws will govern the resolution of any potential conflicts.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 3, 2022

In addition, in granting Alexander’s motion for partial summary judgment, the court found that Alexander held valid copyrights in the tattoo designs at issue and that defendants copied those works. This confluence of events may help explain why the jury came back with its verdict in favor of Alexander. Where We’re Heading.

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JIPL Online

APRIL 9, 2021

Such uses are often methods of social commentary regarding the user’s own life, or more broadly, current events; they also often utilize copyrightable material. [i] Keller, Recognizing the Derivative Works Right as a Moral Right: A Case Comparison and Proposal , 63 Case W. 405 (2019); Terrica Carrington, Grumpy Cat or Copy Cat?

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Christopher Buccafusco (& Rebecca Tushnet), Base Rate Neglect in Copying-in-Fact Comes out of an excellent Buccafusco paper about the failures of copying in fact, which led me to think about base rate neglect in cases where plaintiff’s expert claims that it’s not possible that these similarities arose in the absence of copying.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 3, 2023

The majority says that limiting doctrines account for Kagan’s examples—which involved use of expression—as well as the dissent’s own copying and the Court’s too. But using 100% of another’s work shouldn’t be allowed; transformative became the main event. Must add something new to the original work.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Looking at post-1978, 9 th , 2d, and 6 th Cir (Motown) and SCt; copying and use without license. Most hackathon agreeements don’t address IP rights that could arise in the event. The solution they’re working on is not shared in most cases, so it would be hard to find intent to merge. Derivative work? Who sues who?

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Members of fandoms often participate in various creative activities inspired by their source material, including dressing up as the characters, writing stories based in the fictional universe, and making drawings about the original work. Luckily for most cosplayers, their costumes likely do not infringe copyright laws.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 25, 2023

” So, while writers have a compulsion to use what they know from life to create their works of imagined lives, they will draw not only on events central and personal to themselves but on many things intersecting or tangential to the writer’s own life. They have to look and see, that’s all. Then they have to write.”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

. §202(a) ] “Fixed” means that the work is embodied in a material object in some permanent form. A work is fixed in either a “copy” or a “phonorecord.” “Phonorecords” are defined as material objects in which only sounds are fixed, while “copies” are defined as material objects in which any other kind of work is fixed. [ 17 U.S.C.

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 6, 2023

.” Coakley DM to Harvey Berger (from court files) After Coakley’s monetary demands were refused, Berger received an email from an unknown individual claiming to be a “friend” of Coakley’s, who threatened that a copy of Runt would be “leaked online” if Coakley’s pilot project wasn’t funded.

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