Indiana Intellectual Property Law

MARCH 4, 2024

Indianapolis, Indiana – Defendant Circle City Broadcasting, LLC d/b/a WISH-TV , is being sued by Plaintiff Christopher Sadowski over alleged copyright infringement. Sadowski is a photojournalist from New Jersey , who has been published in numerous popular newspapers and magazines.

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Olartemoure Blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

In 1984, Vanity Fair licensed one of her black-and-white studio portraits for $400 and commissioned Warhol to create a piece for a feature of Prince. There was no image copyright credit or compensation to Lynn Goldsmith. The photographer threatened to sue the Foundation alleging copyright infringement.

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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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IP Intelligence

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. We limit our analysis accordingly.

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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

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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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

In 1984, Vanity Fair sought to license the photograph for an “artist reference” in a story about the musician. Goldsmith agreed to license a one-time use of the photograph with full attribution. scholarship, or research” [2] and is evaluated through multiple factors. factor weighs in favor of fair use.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 9, 2022

have grappled with how broadly or narrowly to interpret the concept of transformativeness when assessing fair use defenses to charges of copyright infringement. Vanity Fair decided to publish an article about the rock singer Prince in a 1984 magazine. Goldsmith counterclaimed for copyright infringement.

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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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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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LexBlog IP

MAY 31, 2023

The Court held that the first factor of the copyright fair use test favored respondent photographer, Lynn Goldsmith, rather than petitioner, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (“AWF”). Vanity Fair engaged Andy Warhol to create an illustration based on Goldsmith’s photograph for use in the magazine.

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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

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. Condé Nast paid $400 for the license, which specified “No other usage right granted.”

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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

MAY 24, 2023

Here, the specific use of Goldsmith’s photograph alleged to infringe her copyright is AWF’s licensing of Orange Prince to Condé Nast. Years later, Goldsmith granted a limited license to Vanity Fair for use of one of her Prince photos as an “artist reference for an illustration.”

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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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LexBlog IP

JUNE 27, 2023

Her 1981 black-and-white photo of Prince was used as the source for colored prints by Warhol, who in turn was commissioned to create a single work for a 1984 article about the musician in Vanity Fair magazine. [3] 3] Goldsmith received a small licensing fee for this use and was co-credited with Warhol in the magazine.

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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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LexBlog IP

MAY 22, 2023

The Supreme Court ruled on May 18 that Andy Warhol’s “Orange Prince” work of pop art was not a fair use when licensed to Condé Nast in 2016. Although this landmark copyright decision is hot off the presses, the facts date back to 1981 when the underlying photograph was first shot. § 107 ).

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LexBlog IP

JULY 7, 2023

A pair of copyright decisions issued in May, one involving the appropriation artist Richard Prince [1] and the other involving works portraying the musician known as Prince, explore and expand on the “fair use” defense to copyright infringement. On May 11, the U.S. 2] A week later, the U.S. 2] A week later, the U.S.

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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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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

A few years later, in 1984, Goldsmith’s agency, which had retained the rights to those images, licensed one of them to Vanity Fair for use in an article called “Purple Fame.” Goldsmith counterclaimed for copyright infringement. Vanity Fair , in turn, commissioned Warhol to make a silkscreen using Goldsmith’s photograph.

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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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LexBlog IP

JUNE 5, 2023

The case began after Prince died in 2016, when Vanity Fair magazine’s parent company, Condé Nast, published a special commemorative magazine celebrating his life. ” The license provided that the use would be for “one time” only. .” Goldsmith counterclaimed 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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