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Why do artists infringe copyright – the tension between artistic creativity and copyright law

IPilogue

The focus of the conflict was the meaning of “transformative works” in the U.S. Copyright Act —whether Warhol’s print is transformative of the original photograph so that it qualifies as fair use. There seems to have always been tension between artistic creativity and copyright law.

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Understanding the Pearson v. Chegg Copyright Infringement Lawsuit

Plagiarism Today

Pearson alleges that, with many of the questions and answers in Chegg Study, Chegg simply repeats the question verbatim or uses a poor paraphrase of it. In short, since the answers require the question to be created, those answers are themselves a derivative work of the question and one that harms the value of those questions.

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AI and Copyright Wars: The New York Times Takes on OpenAI and Microsoft

Intepat

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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Artists Attack AI: Why The New Lawsuit Goes Too Far

Copyright Lately

Instead, the lawsuit is premised upon a much more sweeping and bold assertion—namely that every image that’s output by these AI tools is necessarily an unlawful and infringing “derivative work” based on the billions of copyrighted images used to train the models. You’d be wrong. 17 U.S.C. §

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The Interplay of Personality Rights and Freedom of Expression- the Jackie Shroff’s Case’

IP and Legal Filings

In the absence of a separate law safeguarding personality rights, the court granted relief by invoking passing off as governed under the Trade Marks law. Copyright laws also provide plausible remedies for enforcing one’s right to personality. So, various courts have over the time drawn a clear line in this regard.

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The Much-Adapted “Peter Pan” (1904 – Forever )

Velocity of Content

All copyrights, except one, expire.*. Preface: I wanted to learn more about the concept (and applications) of “derivative works” and adaptations under copyright law, and I was searching for a useful example that might also be interesting for readers of Velocity of Content to read about.

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How Prince and Warhol Got to the Supreme Court

Velocity of Content

She brought suit for copyright infringement, lost at the trial court because of the Warhol estate’s fair use defense but won on appeal to the Second Circuit. First, there are not that many Supreme Court cases that address fair use. Why would the Supreme Court take up another fair use case so quickly?