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The EU imperative to a free public domain: The case of Italian cultural heritage

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Image via Staatliche Museen, Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Christoph Schmidt Public Domain Mark 1.0 In this context of international and EU legal obligations to protect cultural rights, the EU has set a legal imperative to protect the public domain.

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Best practices to avoid copyright infringement

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

A person brings in counterfeit copies of a work Without getting permission from the copyright holder, someone reproduces his work in any way. With today’s technology, it is very simple to copy and share the original works of other people. Public domain resources as a starting point. Do not copy anything.

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Prince, Prince, Prints: Will the Supreme Court Revisit Fair Use?

LexBlog IP

Following Prince’s sudden and untimely death in 2016, the Warhol Foundation, successor to the copyright in the Prince Series, licensed to Condé Nast one of the Prince Series images for use in a commemorative magazine titled The Genius of Prince , which featured on its cover the image from the Prince Series. Goldsmith , 11 F.4th

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U.S. Supreme Court Vindicates Photographer But Destabilizes Fair Use — Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

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. The magazine issue included the credit “source photograph © 1984 by Lynn Goldsmith/LGI.”

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15th Trademark Scholars’ Roundtable: Session 1: Congress and the Courts (including the role of the Supreme Court)

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Sears/Compco said there was a right to copy things in the public domain; how did that go away? Farley: In JDI, examples were effective: Blatt said the survey should be relied on because we don’t want judges deciding these questions because judges don’t understand anything about whether panties are related to teen girl magazines.

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A Preliminary Analysis of Trump’s Copyright Lawsuit Over Interview Recordings (Trump v. Simon & Schuster) (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

If the work was published without proper copyright notice, the work entered the public domain. Effective January 1, 1978, the date of federal copyright protection was moved back from the date of first publication to the date the work was “fixed in a tangible medium of expression,” or permanently recorded in some form. .

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