Nelligan Law

MARCH 25, 2024

So, when Prince’s untimely exit prompted a resurrection of the original article alongside a commemorative Conde Nast magazine featuring the full Prince Series, Goldsmith saw red—and not just any red, but a vibrant, copyright-infringement red. Last summer, in the case of ANDY WARHOL FOUNDATION FOR THE VISUAL ARTS, INC.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Eight years later, Japan’s parliament passed new copyright amendments that banned the unlicensed downloading of manga, magazines and academic texts from the Internet, in line with the previously outlawed media categories. Operating such a site without appropriate licensing is now an arrestable offense.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

We didn’t just grab this image from the web, however, and properly licensed it through Shutterstock years ago. With a proper license, Photocredit.org’s copyright claim falls flat. Below is a screenshot from POLICE Magazine , which credits Career Employer and links to the website. Link to Career Employer?

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 28, 2022

As reported on Entrackr , Pocket FM has filed a copyright infringement case against Kuku FM before the Delhi High Court. Pocket FM alleges that Kuku FM has violated its copyright by providing audio summaries of books to which Pocket FM has exclusive rights to create audiobooks. Image from here. The matter is still being heard.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 6, 2024

A federal court has shot down a copyright infringement lawsuit claiming that Top Gun: Maverick flew too close to a 1983 magazine article that inspired the original film.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 18, 2023

Supreme Court in the copyright infringement case, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. Rather, the opinion takes great pains to confine its opinion the AWF’s commercial conduct, i.e., the license fee it charged for the use of the image on a magazine cover. The question presented to the U.S. Read more

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JULY 19, 2022

What is copyright infringement? Unauthorized use of a work protected by copyright is referred to as copyright infringement. In this blog we will take a look at best practices to avoid copyright infringement. In this blog we will take a look at best practices to avoid copyright infringement.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 9, 2024

According to recent Outsell data for Life Science organizations, 59% of knowledge workers in this industry don’t strongly agree that they think about copyright issues before forwarding information and 62% don’t strongly agree that copyright infringement has serious risks and implications.

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Velocity of Content

AUGUST 9, 2022

Vanity Fair (magazine) took a license to use and modify the image for its magazine and hired Warhol to use his artistic talents to develop a new image. Goldsmith realized what had happened—that Warhol had made over a dozen works based on her photograph, the majority of which had not been licensed.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The Federal High Court dismissed the suit holding that the Respondent/Defendant’s use of the Appellant/Plaintiff’s image was not a violation of her right under the Copyright Act or the tort of passing off. Section 51 of the Copyright Act provides that: “author in the case of a photographic work, means the person who took the photograph.”

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JD Supra Law

JUNE 8, 2023

Goldsmith redefines the contours of the fair use defense to copyright infringement. The Court ruled in favor of respondent Lynn Goldsmith, holding that the licensing to a magazine of an Andy Warhol print depicting the recording artist Prince did not constitute fair use of Goldsmith’s photograph on which the print was based.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 16, 2025

A quick glance at last week finding the real Burger King saga continues now at the Supreme Court, EDs involvement in the Shankar-Tamilnandan copyright case, right to health and compulsory licensing for rare disease medicine Risdiplam. This and much more in this weeks SpicyIP Weekly Review. Anything we are missing out on?

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IAM Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2022

Taiwan’s top court has clarified the scope of compulsory licensing in an attempt to safeguard consumers from becoming involved in copyright infringement disputes further down the line.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 5, 2023

3] The Court found that the Warhol Foundation’s licensing of the Orange Prince to Conde Nast did not have a sufficiently different purpose as the Goldsmith photograph because both were “portraits of Prince used in magazines to illustrate stories about Prince.” Goldsmith and, as a result, did not constitute fair use.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 26, 2023

3] The Court found that the Warhol Foundation’s licensing of the Orange Prince to Conde Nast did not have a sufficiently different purpose as the Goldsmith photograph because both were “portraits of Prince used in magazines to illustrate stories about Prince.” Goldsmith and, as a result, did not constitute fair use.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 27, 2024

In a recent interview with a Dutch film magazine , Kuik mentioned that BREIN received hydrochloric acid in the mail at some point, adding that police complaints were filed on various occasions. “The best [achievement] is the CJEU ruling that The Pirate Bay is a copyright-infringing service.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 9, 2025

Case Summaries Abbott Healthcare Private Limited vs Vinsac Pharma on 17 February, 2025 (Delhi High Court) Abbott Healthcare sued two defendants for trademark and copyright infringement, claiming they deceptively copied its well-known LIMCEE Vitamin C tablets by selling LIMEECEE with similar packaging. Read the post for more details.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 30, 2022

Remember the Fifth Circuit case from 2018 holding that a real restaurant’s name could infringe trademark rights in the name of a fictional restaurant from the TV show SpongeBob SquarePants, the Krusty Krab? The court then moves on to consider Viacom’s copyright infringement claim.

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 14, 2023

Goldsmith on a first-of-its-kind copyright infringement lawsuit involving celebrity tattoo artist Katherine Von Drachenberg (aka Kat Von D). Recall that the Supreme Court majority limited its own fair use analysis to the licensing of Andy Warhol’s Orange Prince to Condé Nast in 2016.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 7, 2023

Warhol created these silkscreens from a photograph of Prince taken by Lynn Goldsmith, who claimed copyright infringement when the Warhol estate licensed Orange Prince to Conde Nast after Prince’s passing in 2016 to illustrate an article about Prince’s life and music. ” See 143 S. ’” Id. ” Id.

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Velocity of Content

JUNE 25, 2024

She also discussed that, in spite of being in a small district, accessing and using quality content, which are often protected by copyright and require additional licenses, was a challenge. “Lack of funding and lack of quality materials that are accessible to teachers is the underlying problem,” says Marjorie McKeown.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

AI-generated art was used for magazine covers, including Cosmopolitan and The Economist. Text and data mining There is wide disparity in the scope of exceptions in national copyright laws permitting copying for the use of training AI. Some stock imagery libraries, including Adobe and Dreamstime , started to accept AI-generated images.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 13, 2021

Second Circuit reverses district court’s fair use declaration granted to Andy Warhol Foundation; artist’s works were not “transformative” and could harm the photographer’s market for licensing her image. was entitled to a declaration that Warhol’s “Prince Series” did not infringe Goldsmith’s photo. 19-2420-cv.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 12, 2021

Second Circuit reverses district court’s fair use declaration granted to Andy Warhol Foundation; artist’s works were not “transformative” and could harm the photographer’s market for licensing her image. was entitled to a declaration that Warhol’s “Prince Series” did not infringe Goldsmith’s photo. 19-2420-cv.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 11, 2023

The newspaper’s print and digital formats reach over 6 million readers every week, with Report on Business magazine reaching over 2.5 Publishing is, of course, one of the core copyright industries – if not the core industry historically associated with copyright. million readers every issue in print and digital.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In 1984, Vanity Fair magazine received a licence from photographer Lynn Goldsmith to use her 1981 portrait of Prince, which she had shot on assignment for Newsweek. Lisa Blatt, representing Goldsmith, proposed that one may just as easily argue that the “purpose” of both uses was the commercial licensing of the works for publication.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

SpicyIP Tidbits: Compulsory License on Mira Behn’s Autobiography, and Stricter Test of Similarity of Marks for Medicinal Products. Licensing Ip International S.AR.L 20 Lakh to Louis Vuitton in a Trademark infringement suit against Club Factory. Comedian Vir Das, Netflix booked for copyright infringement.

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IP Intelligence

JUNE 6, 2023

Warhol created these silkscreens from a photograph of Prince taken by Lynn Goldsmith, who claimed copyright infringement when the Warhol estate licensed Orange Prince to Conde Nast after Prince’s passing in 2016 to illustrate an article about Prince’s life and music. We limit our analysis accordingly.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 16, 2023

Top 3 Kluwer Copyright Blog posts 1) Generative AI, Copyright and the AI Act by João Pedro Quintais “ Generative AI is one of the hot topics in copyright law today. ” 3) How to Distinguish Transformative Fair Uses From Infringing Derivative Works? by Pamela Samuelson “In March 2022 the U.S.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

Goldsmith was whether or not Warhol’s use of Goldsmith’s photograph as a reference and departure point for the creation of an image of Prince constituted fair use or copyright infringement under U.S. copyright law. copyright law. Applying a new lens on how to view the purpose of a derivative work under U.S.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

In 1984, Goldsmith licensed the copyrighted photograph for $400—for publication “one time”—to Vanity Fair, who hired Andy Warhol to make a purple silk screen image based on the photograph, which Vanity Fair published in an article about Prince. is (in copyright lingo) not ‘transformative.’”

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IAM Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2022

Taiwan’s top court has clarified the scope of compulsory licensing in an attempt to safeguard consumers from becoming involved in copyright infringement disputes further down the line.

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IP Tech Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

18, 2023) , the plaintiff brought a lawsuit alleging copyright infringement because a photograph flashed on the screen during the “Tiger King 2” documentary depicted a tattoo of the now famous “Tiger King” (a/k/a “Joe Exotic”), that the plaintiff tattoo artist had inked. In Cramer v. Netflix, Inc. , 3:22-cv-131 (W.D.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

In an interview with GQ magazine , Raf Simons said: "I'm inspired by people who bring something that I think has not been seen, that is original. It should be remembered that copyright infringement is assessed on the basis of similarities, not differences. It's not always about being new-new because who is new-new?".

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

You see, when I was growing up, computers took up entire rooms and content was published on paper – books, newspapers, magazines, and yes, sometimes even broadcast on television or radio. Collaboration is the name of the game—where AI developers and copyright owners come together for the greater good. Copying was tedious.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

18, 2023) , the plaintiff brought a lawsuit alleging copyright infringement because a photograph flashed on the screen during the “Tiger King 2” documentary depicted a tattoo of the now famous “Tiger King” (a/k/a “Joe Exotic”), that the plaintiff tattoo artist had inked. In Cramer v.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

It’s not the same thing as, say, photocopying a magazine article, or even sending a copy of a word-processing file—a draft brief to a client, say—things that exist for an appreciable and useful (from a human point of view) amount of time. for copyright infringement. You might just be licensing it.

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