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Deadly Dolls and a Forgotten Copyright Exception

Copyright Lately

This means that if Alyssa has sold her hula hooping cat t-shirts to the public, I could take my own photographs of one of the shirts in order to list them on eBay without infringing Alyssa’s copyright in the underlying design. 17 U.S.C. § Deadly Doll, Inc. Carlos Vila’s photo of Irina Shayk wearing Deadly Doll sweatpants.

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IT’S THE COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT FOR ME: WHY CLAIMS AGAINST MEME CONTENT SHOULD NOT MATTER

JIPL Online

In particular, it explores why copyright of a meme’s underlying content does not matter in a normative sense. In this blog I argue that copyright protection of the content underlying memes does not matter because of the relative weakness of enforcement mechanisms for copyright infringement of this scale. Stearns, Todd J.

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[Guest post] Bad Bunny shoo shooes anyone liking AI-generated song replicating his style and voice – is he right?

The IPKat

by Despoina Dimitrakopoulou Recently, the news of reggaeton mega-star Bad Bunny's eloquently put disappointment spread on social media, bringing up interesting questions concerning music creation using AI. Essentially, FlowGPT would have fed the copied songs into the system, and that could mean copyright infringement.

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The Importance of Trademark Protection When Copyrighted Works Enter the Public Domain

Corsearch

An intelligent trademarks strategy is therefore needed, from screening and search reports to clear your proposed marks relating to works that are entering public domain, to watching services to monitor your marks once registered. We provide a fast, accurate takedown service with incomparable response times on major search engines.

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NFTs: New Frontiers for Trademarks

IP Tech Blog

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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NFTs: New Frontiers for Trademarks

LexBlog IP

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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Ninth Circuit Reaffirms the “Server Test” for Direct Infringement of the Public Display Right — Hunley v. Instagram, LLC (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

How are photographers supposed to get the attention of those publishers without displaying samples of their work? In other words, the gist of the case is whether the photographers surrender their right to exclude others by voluntarily posting their own photos to social media. 94-1476, at 159-60.