Patently-O

APRIL 3, 2022

Although Warhol is dead, his art, legacy, copyrights, and potential copy-wrongs live on. Apparently Vanity Fair commissioned Warhol to make an illustration for its 1984 article on Prince. Here, in particular, Warhol argues that his use is so “transformative” of the original photographs that no license is needed.

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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] 107), “when it conveys a different meaning or message from its source material.”

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Copyright Lately

MAY 22, 2023

Five things to know about the Supreme Court’s new purpose-driven fair use opinion in Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith (“ Warhol “) is that relatively rare fair use case in which both the original and follow-on works were more or less directly competing in the same market. Andy Warhol Foundation v.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Some of McFree’s critical videos use copyrighted material owned by Watch Tower so in 2018, the group filed an application for a DMCA subpoena which asked a court to compel YouTube/Google to hand over his details. ” Fair Use Considerations. Overall then, the first factor weighs in favor of fair use.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The Internet Archive is widely known for its Wayback Machine, which preserves copies of the web for future generations. The motion is centered around the statute of limitations but IA also stressed the importance of their archiving efforts, hinting that it would be eligible for a fair use defense. ” Fair 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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43(B)log

MAY 19, 2023

Its TOS provide that users will not use Roblox content outside of the Roblox Platform, monetize Roblox content, or imply an association with Roblox for their businesses outside of the Roblox Platform. Wowwee sells a line of dolls called “My Avastars,” which plaintiffs allege were “copied directly from Roblox’s Classic Avatars.”

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

This past Monday, Osgoode’s very own Professor David Vaver delivered the 2021 Brace lecture on “User Rights: Fair Use and Beyond” as the series’ very first international speaker from outside the United States. The Court refers to it more specifically as a “user’s right”.

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 29, 2024

In a January 2024 report and recommendation later adopted by the court , the magistrate judge found that the repost infringed the plaintiff’s display right simply because it shows a copy of the photo on Chicken Joes social media account. Fair Use Declawed. That Chicken Joes is owned by a guy named John. Netflix, Inc.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The Court has granted summary judgment in respect of 2,830 headnotes belonging to Thomson Reuters and admittedly used by Ross Intelligence to train its Natural Language Processing and Artificial Enabled Legal Research tool, finding Direct Copyright Infringement and rejecting fair use. But, first, Some History!

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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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

However, the channel the ‘reference video’ was uploaded to has none of these qualities, the defendants say. The entire broadcast, to which Triller owns the copyright, lasted much longer – four hours in fact – meaning that any use of the Jake Paul fight by the defendants in their two-hour podcast was necessarily small.

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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. This is the first case I’m aware of in which the owner of a copyrighted reference image has sued a tattoo artist for copyright infringement. The Good, the Bad and the.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

A Few Words for a Lost Friend: Tribute to Dmitry Karshtedt (Bob Brauneis, Mark Lemley, Jake Sherkow) Closing Plenary Session: Fair use Robert Brauneis, Copyright Transactions in the Shadow of Fair Use Suppose a work does not infringe another work because and only because it’s been ruled a fair use.

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IP Tech Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

The Supreme Court recently upheld an appellate court’s ruling that Andy Warhol’s use of a photograph of Prince as a reference for a collection of screen prints is not fair use – to the extent his foundation decided to license them at least. Goldsmith, Andy Warhol not only used Ms. Goldsmith et al, Case No.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 5, 2023

David Oppenheimer’s case against Douglas Prutton was referred to the CCB by the U.S. Oppenheimer admitted that he copied and displayed the photograph without permission, but said his adult daughter actually found the photo and placed it on his site, and also argued fair use and unclean hands in defending his use of the work.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 11, 2024

For example, Danish anti-piracy group Rights Alliance demanded The Eye to remove their copy of Books3, which it did. The authors further stated that, as far as their books appear in the Books3 database, they are referred to as “infringed works” This prompted Meta to respond with yet another denial. 107,” Meta notes.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 20, 2024

At trial, American focused primarily on its trademark infringement and unfair competition claims, arguing that Skiplagged misled consumers by making itself appear like an authorized agent of the airline, in part by using American’s logo in ways that could cause confusion. Here, the jury sided with the airline, awarding $4.7

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 29, 2025

In this post, I will discuss the last two issues and the two contentions I referred to in the first part. Is Training of GenAI Models Fair Use? This argument also ties up to the long-standing understanding under US copyright law that non-expressive use of copyrighted works is transformative (see here and here ).

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TraskBritt Intellectual Property

APRIL 10, 2021

When developing Android, Google had copied the text and format of function calls from Oracle’s Java SE Application Programming Interface (API). LEXIS 1864 (2021), the Supreme Court held that Google’s copying was permissible fair use. In Google LLC v. 18-956, 2021 U.S. Software and IP.

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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. “In short, IA’s practice of CDL is radical and unlawful.

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The companies aren’t hiding the ball as there are repeated references along the lines of “ at all times, Open AI was and is well aware of its obligations to obtain a valid licence to use the Works. It has already entered into licensing agreements with several content creators, including other news media organizations.”

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43(B)log

AUGUST 9, 2024

Is this relevant to fair use? Satire involves using the same style to clothe different ideas; therefore it shouldn’t infringe (lack of substantial similarity as in the Greatest American Hero case; German case law; perhaps the jury’s reasoning in the Kat von D case). Writing ad copy, which authors need to sell their works.

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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. .” Campbell v.

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The IP Law Blog

APRIL 8, 2021

Finding Google’s copying a fair use, the Supreme Court ended Oracle’s decade-long attempt to recover copyright damages. In designing the mobile platform, Google independently developed most of the code but copied what the parties referred to as “declaring code” for 37 application programming interfaces, or APIs.

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IPilogue

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

De Fontbrune held the position that the estate did not have the power to approve such use. At the request of De Fontbrune , in 1998, the police confiscated copies of Wofsy’s book, and De Fontbrune sued for copyright infringement. The plaintiffs argued that the book has a commercial purpose, which weighs against fair use.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 30, 2025

A language model merely compresses and cross-references linguistic information to identify predictable patterns and reduce redundancies by representing meaning probabilistically. For this particular use, the statute even allows making a copy of the work in question (s.244). However, Prof.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Fischer found triable issues on substantial similarity and fair use. To freehand ink the tattoo, Kat Von D created a stencil by using a light box to trace the Davis photograph. On March 18, 2017, Kat Von D posted an image on her personal Instagram of herself using the Davis image as a reference while inking the tattoo.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 2, 2023

The Supreme Court recently upheld an appellate court’s ruling that Andy Warhol’s use of a photograph of Prince as a reference for a collection of screen prints is not fair use – to the extent his foundation decided to license them at least. Goldsmith, Andy Warhol not only used Ms.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 11, 2022

In response, Newman, the community moderator, copied all of the community’s posts and uploaded them to Dreamwidth–an action we used to call “mirroring” in the old days. Nevertheless, the registration is worthless because Newman qualifies for fair use. ” Nature of Use. ” Nature of Use.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 16, 2024

The libraries use this concept of CDL justify the mass digitalization of copyright works digital versions of their legally obtained items and lending them to patrons in a controlled manner. This rule covers lending digital copies of copyrighted works, while works in the public domain can be freely digitized.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 27, 2024

This claim isn’t far-fetched, since NVIDIA publicly stated that it used EleutherAI’s ‘The Pile’ dataset, which includes Books3. NVIDIA Responds in Court The main question for this and other lawsuits is whether the use of this data is permitted under U.S. The company admits that it used “The Pile” dataset for training purposes.

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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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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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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

It is that functionality, and not the copying, to which Apple truly objects. But fair use protects precisely this kind of analysis. Opening software to information gathering and vulnerability testing is transformative, just as gathering information about and criticizing other types of works are classic transformative fair uses.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 6, 2022

” With respect to whether Babybus’ baby character infringed Moonbug’s baby, Babybus claimed that the alleged copying related to generic features found in nature. . Day to Day Imports. * Satirical Depiction in YouTube Video Gets Rough Treatment in Court. * 512(f) Preempts Tortious Interference Claim–Copy Me That v.

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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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