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. Applying a new lens on how to view the purpose of a derivative work under U.S. Copyright law in the U.S.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 22, 2022

Movie studio Miramax, which owns most of the rights to the film, sees the plan as a contract breach and copyright infringement. “Miramax’s copyright claim fails because it misapprehends fundamental principles of copyright law and ignores the clear language of the agreements and assignments,” Tarantino’s lawyers write.

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Intepat

JANUARY 8, 2024

Navigating the Intellectual Property Rights Dilemma The clash between The New York Times, OpenAI, and Microsoft unfolds in the realm of intellectual property law. In light of the Copyright Act of 1976 (United States), like The New York Times, creators have the exclusive right to reproduce, distribute, and display their works.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 19, 2023

Caveat Emptor The common notion that acquiring ownership of an NFT representing a work in which copyright subsists equates to owning the copyright to the underlying work is clearly false. UK copyright law mandates that an assignment of copyright be ‘in writing signed by or on behalf of the assignor’.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The song, and specifically the part of Bad Bunny´s voice and style of lyrics, was reported by his fans to be so much like Bad Bunny that had them fooled. Essentially, FlowGPT would have fed the copied songs into the system, and that could mean copyright infringement. probably without having Bad Bunny´s consent.

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IIPRD

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

RIGHTS PROTECTED : Under this law Copyright law protects the copyright of authors, musicians, etc. Copyright is essentially a right to copy. Copyright is a term describing rights given to creators for their literary and artistic works. Napster faced action for copyright infringement in cyberspace.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 1, 2023

” On April 26, UMG held an earnings call in which it reported that revenues rose 11.5% It’s a new issue and there’s been some fresh reporting on it with some recent developments. First of all, in terms of copyright, to reiterate our very clearly articulated position. year over year to $2.71

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IP Tech Blog

MARCH 18, 2022

Intellectual property owners need to add the metaverse to places to watch for possible infringement, specifically, trademark or copyright infringement in the form of NFTs or non-fungible tokens. Other brand owners have been fighting back infringers, commentators and/or parodists as in the METABIRKINS saga.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 18, 2022

Intellectual property owners need to add the metaverse to places to watch for possible infringement, specifically, trademark or copyright infringement in the form of NFTs or non-fungible tokens. Other brand owners have been fighting back infringers, commentators and/or parodists as in the METABIRKINS saga.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

To fully understand these conflicting views of the majority opinion, it is necessary to understand both the specific facts of the case and the history of the Supreme Court’s case law concerning the fair-use doctrine. For obvious reasons, the copyright in a photograph does not include the right to publicly perform the copyrighted work.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

Copyright Act grants authors five exclusive rights: “to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords”, “to prepare derivative works based on the copyrighted work,” “to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public,” “to perform the copy­righted work publicly,” and “to display the copyrighted work publicly.”

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 3, 2024

Copyright Law Copy Right is a legal concept that gives creators exclusive rights over their original works and allows them to control the use and distribution of those works. These rights generally include the rights to reproduce, distribute, perform, publish and create derivative works.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 9, 2023

TLDR Generative AI is one of the hot topics in copyright law today. In the EU, a crucial legal issue is whether using in-copyright works to train generative AI models is copyright infringement or falls under existing text and data mining (TDM) exceptions in the Copyright in Digital Single Market (CDSM) Directive.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

To ensure you don’t miss out on interesting IP law developments reported on our other IP blogs, we will, on a regular basis, provide you with an overview of the most-read posts from each of our IP law blogs. Top 3 Kluwer Copyright Blog posts. Here are the most popular posts over the past few months. here and here).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 16, 2023

To ensure you don’t miss out on interesting IP law developments reported on our other IP blogs, we will, on a regular basis, provide you with an overview of the most-read posts from each of our IP law blogs. ” 3) How to Distinguish Transformative Fair Uses From Infringing Derivative Works?

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 3, 2023

Originality is the quality that distinguishes produced or invented works from copies, clones, forgeries, or derivative works by being new or novel. University Tutorial Press was sued by the plaintiff, University of London Press, for copyright infringement. It must be the author’s original work.

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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Breaking down Miramax’s copyright infringement lawsuit against Quentin Tarantino, a dispute about NFTs that isn’t really about NFTs. The breathless media reports soon followed. But that doesn’t seem particularly relevant, because the derivative works at issue are actually the screenplay scans, not the NFTs.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 25, 2021

But Lewis thought the song was a rip-off of “I Want a New Drug” and asserted a copyright infringement claim against Columbia Pictures. The studio settled quietly out of court, so there’s no reported decision in this one. The 13 spookiest, Halloweeniest copyright cases that I could think of.

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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. Some of Randy Orton’s tattoos from Catherine Alexander’s copyright applications. What Happened. Skull arm design.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 19, 2022

Fast forward to 1990, and enter Judge Pierre Leval , an incredibly influential and knowledgeable jurist on the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, especially when it comes to copyright law. Back then, Judge Leval was a district court judge when he wrote an article for the Harvard Law Review called “Toward a Fair Use Standard.”

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 23, 2023

Whether one focuses on the word’s connotation of silliness or excitement, or maybe even anger , or analogizes to the raucous and rhymingly-named team from Savannah that makes up its own baseball rules , US copyright law is currently going a little “bananas.” ” Id. Morford , at 11. ” Id. Google] , 804 F.3d

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LexBlog IP

JULY 21, 2021

As that report noted: The study’s most conservative estimate.takes into account only the revenues of faith-based organizations, [and] is $378 billion annually … By way of economic perspective, this is more than the global annual revenues of tech giants Apple and Microsoft combined.Our second mid-range estimate. copyright law.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Under the 1976 Copyright Act, copyright subsists automatically in any “original work of authorship” that is “fixed in any tangible medium of expression.” [ 17 U.S.C. Complaint ¶ 64] In the alternative, Trump pleads that he owns the copyright only in his responses to Woodward’s questions. Nation Enterprises , 723 F.2d

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The IP Law Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Veteran investigative reporter Bob Woodward conducted an audio interview of former President Donald Trump for Woodward’s book, Rage. Trump claims that Woodward did not have his permission to release these audiotapes as a separate audiobook, and sued Woodard and his publisher for, among other claims, copyright infringement.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Veteran investigative reporter Bob Woodward conducted an audio interview of former President Donald Trump for Woodward’s book, Rage. Trump claims that Woodward did not have his permission to release these audiotapes as a separate audiobook, and sued Woodard and his publisher for, among other claims, copyright infringement.

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