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. Third, this case has the capacity to shine more light into the relatively murky difference between transformative fair uses and infringing derivative works.

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IP Tech Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

When Prince passed away in 2016, the Andy Warhol Foundation (“AWF”) licensed “Orange Prince” for use on the cover of a commemorative magazine cover. Plainly the Warhol “Orange Prince” was a derivative work, but was there something about it that could support a finding of fair use?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 7, 2023

Goldsmith et al sheds light on different perspectives of copyright law in common law and civil law countries. This brief post dives into this duality, as exampled by American and Brazilian law. Firstly, both Brazilian and American legislation stipulate that the creator of a work holds copyright over it.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 25, 2023

In a closely watched copyright case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Andy Warhol’s portraits of music legend Prince did not qualify as fair use under copyright law. Acuff-Rose Music, which held that a work is transformative if it adds something new and has a different purpose or character.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

6] The Supreme Court’s ruling on that petition—and a possible eventual decision on the merits—could have enormous implications for the art world and other industries impacted by copyright law. Originals” [7] : The Works at Issue. Controversy” [8] : The Litigation.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 2, 2023

When Prince passed away in 2016, the Andy Warhol Foundation (“AWF”) licensed “Orange Prince” for use on the cover of a commemorative magazine cover. Plainly the Warhol “Orange Prince” was a derivative work, but was there something about it that could support a finding of fair use?

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LexBlog IP

MAY 22, 2023

The Use Upon Prince’s death in 2016, Condé Nast (the parent company of Vanity Fair ) ran a commemorative feature on Prince and used another Warhol-based-on-Goldsmith work. Apparently, Warhol had created an entire series of 15 other works of pop art using Goldsmith’s initial photograph.

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Trademark and Copyright Law Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In 2021, we have arrived at the moment of free access to works published in 1925, the midpoint of the Roaring Twenties. This year brought us Ernest Hemingway’s first book, In Our Time , Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway , the debut of The New Yorker magazine, and, of course, F. the exclusive right to their respective writings.”

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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. ” (S. ” See 143 S. ’” Id. ” Id.

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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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43(B)log

AUGUST 9, 2024

seems like this is going to have trouble with derivative works] Amanda Levendowski, Fairer Public Benefit Bias and harms of works aren’t taken into account in fair use analysis: recruits a legal tool typically aimed at one set of problems for the purpose of cleverly addressing a different set of problems. Whyte Monkee v.

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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.

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 6, 2023

The case involves an interesting interplay between copyright law, entertainment contracts and the First Amendment. Wagging Tails contends that these materials are “unauthorized and infringing derivative works” based on its motion picture. LFP , Inc. ,

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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. 1981), which involved two interviews of the Reverend Jerry Falwell in 1980 that were published in Penthouse Magazine in March 1981. Hustler Magazine, Inc.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 10, 2024

” Thus, there are some copyright arguments or policies in play beyond those most immediately considered in the motion papers. ” Thus, there are some copyright arguments or policies in play beyond those most immediately considered in the motion papers. common law copyright in oral statements), Quinto v.

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The IP Law Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Trump contends that Woodward did not request to expand the scope of a release or furnish a release to use the interview sound recordings for an audiobook or any other derivative work, as is customary in the book publishing and recording industries. There is precedent that an interviewee does not hold any copyright in an interview.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Trump contends that Woodward did not request to expand the scope of a release or furnish a release to use the interview sound recordings for an audiobook or any other derivative work, as is customary in the book publishing and recording industries. There is precedent that an interviewee does not hold any copyright in an interview.

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