LexBlog IP

JULY 7, 2023

A pair of copyright decisions issued in May, one involving the appropriation artist Richard Prince [1] and the other involving works portraying the musician known as Prince, explore and expand on the “fair use” defense to copyright infringement. On May 11, the U.S. 2] A week later, the U.S. 3] Graham v.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

Clarifying Copyright Fair Use in Commercialized and Licensed Visual Arts: Insights from Warhol v. Goldsmith by Jaime Chandra Clarifying Fair Use in Commercialized & Licensed Visual Arts: Insights from the Warhol v. We’re talking about Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, Inc.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JUNE 23, 2022

If a webinar’s speeches, lectures, and addresses (collectively referred to as “lectures”) are scripted, they are copyrightable as literary works under section 13 of the Act (i.e. Fair use; webinar recordings. Ownership of copyright in the lectures presented by the speakers. written in advance).

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LexBlog IP

MAY 24, 2023

Goldsmith , Opinion located here , the estate of deceased pop artist Andy Warhol argued its use of the photo at issue was fair use under the first of the four Fair Use test factors (the “purpose and character of the use”), because Warhol’s contributions were transformative, adding new expression, meaning, or message.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

Yesterday, the Supreme Court held 7-2 that a specific use of Andy Warhol’s “Orange Prince” silk screen—based on a copyrighted photograph of Prince—was not fair use. The first factor did not apply to Warhol’s image as published in Condé Nast in 2016, so that specific use was not fair use.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 23, 2024

The TLDR is that Sedlik owns a valid copyright in the Miles Davis photo, and Kat Von D admits to using the photo as a reference image to create her tattoo. But very few of them were officially licensed. That said, expect most of the action to center on the fair use defense. The Good, the Bad and the.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 18, 2024

Patrons can also borrow books that are scanned and digitized in-house, with technical restrictions that prevent copying. Staying true to the centuries-old library concept, only one patron at a time can rent a digital copy of a physical book.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

On May 18, 2023, the Supreme Court found that artistic changes to a pre-existing work, alone, not necessarily sufficient to make a derivative work fair use. copyright law, the Supreme Court focused on the actual use made, i.e. what the user does with the original work. copyright law. Copyright law in the U.S.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

In 1984, Vanity Fair sought to license the photograph for an “artist reference” in a story about the musician. Goldsmith agreed to license a one-time use of the photograph with full attribution. factor weighs in favor of fair use. 4] “The larger the difference, the more likely the.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 9, 2022

In the verdict form the jury stated that Defendants had not proven fair use, the Plaintiff (Alexander) should receive $3,750 USD for actual losses from the Defendant’s use of the tattoo designs, and did not answer as to profits can be attributed to the Plaintiff for use of the tattoos. was released. Citing Muhammad-Ali v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The case involves ShutterStock, a photo licensing service. (We We used ShutterStock as the blog’s image provider for several years). ShutterStock has a “contributor” program that allows anyone to upload photos into their licensing database in exchange for a fee if licensed. No Control/Financial Benefit.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 17, 2024

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. .”

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The 1976 Act brought in many aspects of copyright with which we are now familiar, including codifying fair use in Section 107 (it previously had been applied on a common law basis). Harper & Row brought suit and The Nation argued that publishing the excerpts was a fair use.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Fischer found triable issues on substantial similarity and fair use. Kat Von D did not request authorization or a license to reproduce the image. To freehand ink the tattoo, Kat Von D created a stencil by using a light box to trace the Davis photograph. Background. For example, in Alexander v.

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Copyright Lately

JUNE 2, 2022

In a 30-page order, the district court largely denies both parties’ motions for summary judgment, finding triable issues on substantial similarity and fair use. and High Voltage Tattoo) asked the court to determine that the use of Sedlik’s photo as a reference image qualified as a fair use of the copyrighted work.

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Velocity of Content

JUNE 15, 2023

“If an original work and a secondary use share the same or highly similar purposes, and the secondary use is of a commercial nature, the first factor is likely to weigh against fair use, absent some other justification for copying.” Fair use is always extremely fact dependent.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 31, 2023

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”). Vanity Fair engaged Andy Warhol to create an illustration based on Goldsmith’s photograph for use in the magazine.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JUNE 5, 2023

s (AWF), [1] in a long-awaited decision impacting fair use under Section 107(1) of the Copyright Act. Goldsmith and, as a result, did not constitute fair use. [2] Goldsmith and, as a result, did not constitute fair use. [2] Goldsmith was not paid or credited for this use.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 26, 2023

So-called ‘cam’ copies appear online within hours of movies first appearing in theaters, yet as piracy releases go, cams are unique in their ability to disappoint just about everyone. For the last 40 years the Motion Picture Association has regularly highlighted the damage caused by in-theater recordings of the latest movies.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 8, 2023

Adjusted for inflation, imported Japanese N64s changed hands for the equivalent of $1,400 in today’s money; a copy of Super Mario 64? Imported into the gray market in Europe, US cartridges were cheaper than their Japanese counterparts. An emulator reference, presumably. A snip at $165.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In that case, artist Lebeus Woods claimed that a torture device used in the Terry Gilliam film had been unlawfully copied from his drawing of a wall-mounted chair. Fair use and de minimis defenses are often unreliable, and even if you have a solid case, defending copyright infringement lawsuits is an expensive proposition.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

[iii] This treaty also directs for permission of use, without authorization of the copyright holder over such accessible formats of copyrighted copies, which should be non-commercial lending & may comprise of electronic communication. Lacuna: Copyright Act. In Authro Guild v. 3d 87 (2d Cir. first appeared on IPLF.

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Patently-O

OCTOBER 11, 2022

On October 12, 2022, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the fair use copyright case of Andy Warhol Foundation, Inc. Andy Warhol admittedly used Lynn Goldmith’s copyrighted photographs of Prince as the basis for his set of sixteen silkscreens. Warhol was never personally a party to the license). 21-869 (2022).

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JULY 27, 2022

In simple words, the transmission of programmes or information that we see on TV or hear on radio can be referred to as broadcasting. Instead of the owner of the copyright issuing copies for distribution, the works are available for being seen or heard or otherwise enjoyed by the public.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 10, 2022

The US Supreme Court in March decided it will revisit a dispute over pop artist Andy Warhol’s images of Prince. Goldsmith , the Court aims to more clearly define the scope of what’s known as “fair use” in US copyright law. Understanding the Fair Use Doctrine. Oracle America, Inc.

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SpicyIP

JULY 29, 2021

Limitations on storage of copied works in digital formats. To put things in perspective, even the most IP-friendly jurisdiction of US in Cambridge v. Becker has held 10% copying to be fair use in most cases, on top of the flexible ‘ Amount & substantiality ’ factor test in its fair use doctrine.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

Supreme Court affirmed the Second Circuit’s ruling that the reproduction of Andy Warhol’s Orange Prince on the cover of a magazine tribute was not a fair use of Lynn Goldsmith’s photo of the singer-songwriter Prince, on which the Warhol portrait was based. By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa By a 7-2 vote, the U.S. Goldsmith , No. 569 (1994).

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 7, 2023

Since most tweets relating to the initial dispute have since been deleted or disabled, here we rely on archived and cached copies for evidence. Copies of these communications have not been made public, so their nature remains unknown. Massimo’s references this himself. That in itself is likely to prove controversial.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa Recently, the Ninth Circuit reaffirmed what has become known as the “server test”: in order to be held directly liable for violating the public display right, the alleged infringer must have a fixed “copy” of the work stored on a server in its possession or control. Instagram, LLC , 2023 WL 4554649 (9th Cir.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 1, 2023

The new DIY tools aren’t particularly difficult to use, but even technically-challenged wannabe producers can use off-the-shelf apps like Musicfy and Uberduck to perform voice-to-voice and text-to-voice conversions using models trained on the voices of popular artists. Most voice model files are actually quite small.)

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JULY 19, 2022

Unauthorized use of a work protected by copyright is referred to as copyright infringement. Thus, it is the unauthorised use of someone else’s copyrighted work that violates the owner’s rights, such as the right to reproduce, distribute, exhibit, or perform the protected work. Recognize the subtleties of fair use.

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Velocity of Content

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

iIn mid-June, YouTube enhanced the functionality of its web form for initiating DMCA 512 notices with the aim of reducing “reuploads” of content (what is sometimes referred to as the “Whack-A-Mole” problem). Note that the algorithm does not work perfectly — most prominently, it doesn’t understand the US legal doctrine of fair use very well.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

As it is discussed at greater length elsewhere ( here ), TDM is an example of an area in which legislative intervention has been broadly justified by reference to the need of freeing up certain copyright-covered spaces to facilitate research and increase innovation and competitiveness.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 5, 2023

’s (AWF), [1] in a long-awaited decision impacting fair use under Section 107(1) of the Copyright Act. Goldsmith and, as a result, did not constitute fair use. [2] Goldsmith and, as a result, did not constitute fair use. [2] Goldsmith was not paid or credited for this use.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 26, 2023

’s (AWF), [1] in a long-awaited decision impacting fair use under Section 107(1) of the Copyright Act. Goldsmith and, as a result, did not constitute fair use. [2] Goldsmith and, as a result, did not constitute fair use. [2] Goldsmith was not paid or credited for this use.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 8, 2024

Copy-reliant technologies have banked heavily on that principle over recent years and it wouldn’t be a stretch to say that the principle of non-expressive use has become the legal foundation of how the internet essentially works. Litigation against these models has piled up at the same breakneck speed as they have gained ground.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 22, 2023

Falling within the broad category of AI and machine learning, generative artificial intelligence (GAI) refers to algorithms, such as ChatGPT, DALL-E and Stable Diffusion, that can interpret text prompts to generate new content. Two Recent GAI Cases Two recent cases highlight potential copyright issues implicated in the use of GAI tools.

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