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Copyright Protection of Modern Art

IP and Legal Filings

Cooper case, a work does not have to be entirely unique in order to be protected by copyright; rather, there needs to be some effort put into it and it cannot be a carbon copy of another person’s work. However, the Courts claimed that since Koons had seen the image in Allure Magazine. According to the Macmillan & Co.

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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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The Importance of Transparency in Research Integrity

Plagiarism Today

Perhaps the most damming evidence came out in a February 2022 feature published by Science Magazine. Thompson, for his part, has said that he and his colleagues plan to “place our full set of concerns into the public domain soon,” signalling that this is not the end story. It was then that a formal investigation began.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (November 8-November 15)

SpicyIP

Mr M M Kariappa vs Advance Magazine Publishers, Inc on 10 November, 2022 (Karnataka High Court) Karnataka High Court allowed the appeal and over-ruled the order of the District Court which had restrained the Appellant from using the mark VOGUE. On basis of the above, the Defendant argued that the interim injunction deserves to be vacated.

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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.”